Anarchists, not without some good reasons, are angry at the state as a form of organizing human society, convinced that it is oppressive by definition and that we would all be better off without a state - any, any. That's not a bad attitude when you're, say, seventeen years old, but later you see that things can be a little more complicated than they are in "horrible-sounding words". Namely, it is not difficult to criticize the state with arguments, but it is hellishly difficult - so much so that so far no one has succeeded - to replace it with some other form, which will bring the most good to the greatest number of people, enable the most freedom and security (so, i one i another; as soon as it gets to the point where, like, you have to choose between the two, something is seriously wrong!) and do the least amount of damage.
Hence, the serious and real problem is not in the existence of the state, but in the nature of its order. Aphoristically speaking, citizens have a state if the state is democratically organized, and the state has citizens if it is a dictatorship. This sounds effective, doesn't it? And it is true; accurate, but not entirely precise, that is, it is incomplete. Citizens, for example, even in the most democratic country, must pay taxes and various duties (electricity bills, for example) and must obey the Constitution and laws, but this is unquestionable only if there is a reasonable measure of evidence that the state spends their money in the public interest and not that its current managers fill their pockets, and that the Constitution and laws are based on the best legal standards of the era, reasonable, inclusive, reasonably elastic and elementary fair, and repressive only in that a measure that is inevitable, because without certain repressive mechanisms, greater damage to the general interest would occur than occurs with them. A simple example: no one anywhere really worships the police - nor does it exist to be worshiped, pop stars, football players and columnists of respected magazines are responsible for worship - but there is a huge difference between the police that harass and stalk honest citizens at the expense of tyrants and usurpers of power , and those that use legal means to maintain public order and protect the lives and property of all.
Why this little lecture on things we should all know? That's why we frighteningly often forget about it, that is, about the very concrete and practical implications of what we all know well "in theory". Demagogues, populists, career liars and other political thugs are waiting for us at that bend and snatch the state from us, and twist the meaning, purpose and way of functioning of its institutions so that they no longer work for us, but against us. It is not about some abstract constitutional problem, but about something that very directly and far-reaching pollutes and even destroys our lives. Where democratic-political literacy is not exactly at an enviable level, sometimes a significant number of people begin to understand what is happening only when it has sunk so deep that the actions of the usurped state become immediately dangerous to the lives of all citizens, even those who do their best to be loyal and obedient to usurpers. Serbia has been in that phase of radical collapse since this fall at the latest, and hence this violent commotion within the social fabric: as if the instinct of self-preservation, which had been kept under strong narcotics for a long time, has finally awakened.
When it comes to this point, people who professionally serve and service institutions, for example members of the police and security services, judges, prosecutors, journalists of public media services, educators... Each of them individually must choose whether they will serve the law and public interest at the cost of being exposed to the reprisals of a wild parastatal apparatus or will remain on the dead watch of a renegade and renegade order, at the cost of complete human and professional compromise and degradation. As long as things do not "escalate" - but sooner or later they necessarily escalate because the mechanism of self-destruction is discreetly and immovably built into the foundations of every tyranny and kleptocracy - many will be lulled into the illusion that it is possible to maintain a comfortable "middle position", until it comes the moment when balancing is no longer enough, or even possible.
Read the letter to the public from the Zrenjanin education inspectors Ivana Atanackvić and Ruzica Tapavički: every point of it, perfectly measured, precise, impeccably argued, tells about why they cannot and do not want to fulfill illegitimate orders from the heart of darkness of the wild apparatus about "punitive" inspection supervision of educators. Not because they refuse their duty as public servants, but precisely because they do not want to fail it, which would fundamentally stop being what they are paid for with our money. Or a short, suitably rebellious statement by Dragana Zavalić, the head of the inspection service in the Bačka Palanka municipal administration.
Those three conscientious citizens are the Law and the State. And its unfortunate president is scattered and stateless; it doesn't matter, he puts worry on joy, so here he is preparing to award the medal to the unfortunate director of Novi Sad's Jovina Gymnasium. Hurry up, Director, there may not be much time or orders left.
