And don't lean through space

What kind of brainstorm arose in the head of an individual who, standing in line at the post office in Sopot, near Belgrade, saw and recognized Ljubodrag Stojadinović, a long-time journalist and commentator, in recent years a columnist for N1 and "Peščanika"? What mechanism, or Pavlov's reflex, was activated in him at the moment of the traumatic realization that Stojadinović does not exist only in a television or a computer, but also in ordinary, old-fashioned, analogue reality, for example in the branch office of the public company PTT, where citizens come to pay their bills, send packages and the like?

Whatever it was, the unknown person approached Stojadinović with the intention - realized - to insult and insult him, to call him a traitor and a foreign mercenary, and everything that goes with that; I don't know what exactly is wrong with him. S. answered, but whatever he said - I understand him. If he didn't say anything and just ignored the jerk - I understand him even better. It's actually the best interventional tactic for extinguishing acute brain inflammation in untreated sociopaths, but you know how it is, our nerves haven't been like ropes for a long time either...

In the end, apparently mostly thanks to Stojadinović's self-control, the incident ended, as Basara likes to say, "without casualties in terms of personnel and material". By the way, others present at the Sopot post office pretended to be dead, deaf and dumb. But the fact that there was no physical confrontation does not mean that it is not an example of unambiguous and not at all naive violence that the so-called regime - not necessarily always directly, it can also be the self-initiative of fanatical followers - is carried out on dissenters and disobedients, especially on those who by the nature of their professions (actors, writers, journalists...) stand above anonymity and can easily serve others as " bad example".

So, when a virtuous questioner asks you what exactly Serbia is protesting against by standing up "against violence", calmly tell him that he is also protesting against such products of this monstrous order as that brazen guy from the Sopot post office.

Shall I elaborate a little on the word and the thought? Gladly.

The criminal regime of the nineties usurped most of the public space for itself and its own, and left crumbs for others, threatening to leave them without it. When I say "public space", I don't mean only political and media space, but also literal space: streets, squares, buildings, pubs... If you were recognized as their "prey", you should have been careful where and how you moved. , because at any moment you could become a victim of verbal or physical violence, not to mention insults and threats.

Did the regime organize or at least "sponsor" it? Essentially, it is. Even if it's not direct, it couldn't have happened without his cover.

With the establishment of the October 5th Republic, that feedback loop between thugs and the government mostly disappeared, except for its very right wing, which, just for example, you can best ask us who, as free citizens, tried to organize the Peščanika tribune in Arandjelovac. But the violence and abuse in the common public space, verbal and physical, came primarily from the growing right-wing margin, which considered both the government of that time and us "on-duty culprits" who are being tortured by idiots at the post office as almost equal "traitors".

The establishment of "Vučićism" brought things back to the factory settings from the nineties bit by bit. Cvorovics of all kinds got their wings again, and it didn't really matter anymore whether they privately preferred Tito or Stalin, i.e. "President Vučić" or someone much more to the right than him. After all, everyone loves Putin, right? And it is known what Baćuška does with the barkers who did not escape from his satrapy in time: little by little, some of them fall out of the window. It's amazing how flimsy windows they make in that Russia.

Therefore, the uprising of a more decent Serbia "against violence" is first and foremost a struggle for the re-establishment of equal and democratic control over public space - from the National Assembly through public media to every point of public space in the capital and all other cities and areas. In which everyone has the right to feel free, protected and welcome: from Ljubodrag Stojadinović to Lav Grigori Pajkić.

Of course, the establishment of an alleged balance of violence as an attempt to dilute the premise of the protest is a transparent trick, because for thirty years in this country Stojadinovics have suffered incomparably more violence of all kinds than Pajci, but regardless, no one should and must not suffer it.

And that is not difficult at all. All that is required is civil behavior in public space. When I come across, sometimes literally face to face, someone whom I consider one of the personifications of the evil that plagues us, I just turn my head to the other side. Because on the street, in the bar, in the post office, we are equal: people, civilians, who pursue some of our own purposes. If we abolish the inviolability of that public space accessible to all under equal conditions, we get a tyranny with elements of artificially cultivated disorder.

Yes, of course it reminds you of something. You see that as soon as you look out the window.