There's that joke that takes place in the madhouse when a user calls the doctor and tells him sensibly that all these people who wear hats sideways, have their hands stuck in their shirts and claim to be Napoleon, they are all wrong and are complete lunatics, he says. Exactly, says the doctor and asks him how he knows those people are not Napoleon? Because I'm Napoleon, answered the guy and put his hand on his shirt.
Let's see now how the president of the assembly Ana Brnabić comments on the attack on professor Natalija Jovanović. She, of course, like any sane and normal person, condemns "any form of violence against anyone in this country", so she also condemns the thugs of the Serbian Progressive Party who on January 28 stormed out of the party premises and broke the jaw of a female student (after which the prime minister resigned), as well as the violence of two days ago when there were again some thugs in Novi Sad, almost the same as those who are kept and fed by the SNS in the party's premises and who broke the jaw of a female student. now they broke the student's jaw. It is commendable, of course, that they do not make any gender discrimination.
Things, then, are as they are in the speech of one of the leaders of the government, except that it is not recorded that she condemns the violence of the SNS, the only one, after all, that exists in this country. He condemns, however, "the claims that Mrs. Jovanović was more seriously wounded", except that no one claimed that. Therefore, she does not condemn what happens in reality, but she condemns what does not exist anywhere else but in her head, that is, in the head of her "boss".
And he adds that "this fact - that even a mentally ill person of an older age is used for the purpose of political spin" (which does not exist in reality, but exists in her speech), "and that minor physical injuries are presented as serious injuries" (which, let's repeat, no one claimed), "speaks enough of the powerlessness of those who every day call for violence against dissenters" (it is obvious that he is referring to Aleksandr Vučić because no one else but him calls for violence) "and who every day carry out that violence" (it is clear that he means SNS beaters and those citizens who share Brnabić's version of unreality), "throwing eggs at people" (this is not true: SNS beaters do not use eggs, the eggs are too soft for them, and they cannot hurt), "with oysters, bottles, cans, blocking the media, preventing others from moving, working, learning" (so a perfect description of SNS).
The meeting of reality and joke
The joke doctor is, therefore, the same as the public in this case: a function, an instance to which the speaker is addressing.
"Look, doctor, what you see, what I see, what anyone with eyes sees, is not real. The fact that the thugs organized by my party" - it is implicit in the reaction of the president of the assembly - "are terrorizing the citizens of Serbia, that my party, with the help of the police, organized paramilitary units in Pionirski Park, that the government to which I belong attacked the citizens of Serbia with sound weapons, that the only violence in this country is produced exclusively by me, my boss and my party, that it has nothing to do with me but with some people there."
"Who are some out there?" asks the doctor-public opinion? Brnabić/Vučić: "Some over there". "What, madam," asks the doctor, "is reality to you?" "What I say, doctor." "No, then," the doctor repeated, "what all the citizens of this country see and feel on their skin, but what you say is happening?". "That's right," Branabić confirms, "because I'm Napoleon."
Reality
In Serbia, there is currently a struggle between reality and illusion. The citizens of Serbia are on the side of reality. On the side of what does not exist is the government and those who believe that exactly what the government says is real (the citizen of Niš, for example, who tried to kill another citizen of Niš with a knife).
At the meeting place of illusion and reality, there is a knife in the hands of a citizen who jumped to the store to get a can of peas, and then threw the can at the hated character. She obviously didn't guess, so she started to finish the matter with a knife. By the way, it is completely logical to carry a knife when you go to pick up a can of tomatoes.
And why did a citizen hate another citizen? Well, because Brnabić and her boss explained to her that that citizen, the one she recognized on the street and attacked her with a knife, seduced her granddaughter to the students, instead of seducing her to the SNS thugs. The knife is real, but the reason that is pointing that knife at another person is not real. The people who inspire that woman to attempt murder are also real, but what these people are telling you is not real.
It's a bit complicated at first glance. Therefore, the fact that real people produce an illusion did not mean that an illusion does not produce real consequences. Just as, at one time, some people created the illusion that Jews were a danger to Germany, so millions of people like this citizen of Niš with a knife in her hands believed them, and they kindly allowed Hitler to kill millions of people.
But she is crazy, adds Brnabić. But if that is true, then all the worse for Mrs. Brnabić. A mentally unstable person does not make a clear distinction between reality and illusion, so we have no reason not to believe Ms. Brnabić and Mr. Vučić when they create an illusion. Oh no, that's not the cause of the attack, Brnabić pointedly notes, but the confusion is created by those who maliciously use elementary logic. What I say is true: I am Napoleon.
Lie
One of the methods used to determine the mental stability of a person is to distinguish between reality and illusion, and Ms. Brnabić, as well as Mr. Vučić, have not provided convincing enough evidence to differentiate between reality and illusion for years. Here, to remind you, a few weeks ago Mr. Vučić was willing to state that a student had inflicted serious injuries on a plainclothes policeman in front of the RTS building in Belgrade with a boxer, even though the policeman was injured by his colleague (probably not knowing that it was a colleague) and after that he did not provide proof - we are still talking about Mr. Vučić - that he has regained the ability to distinguish between reality and what is a figment of imagination.
Or, for example, he stated the other day that NASA confirmed that there was no sound cannon in Belgrade, when, well, NASA has no idea what he's talking about.
The public is inclined to mark the statements of the top government as lies, but there is something in the structure of such lies that seems to question such an assumption: the liar, namely, knows how to lie. A liar, therefore, sometimes, necessarily, by the nature of lying, must pierce the truth. However, for a very long time (12-13 years) it has not been established that they told the truth, that is, that they distinguish between reality and appearance.
