Exactly one month after the massacre at the "Vladislav Rybnikar" school (although probably everyone feels like it's been a year, so much has accumulated in people in the previous weeks), the fifth protest against violence was held. Again, there were tens of thousands of people on the streets of Belgrade, everything passed almost without incident (except for the directed ones). Again, there was that energy in the air that awakens the feeling that something good is happening and that something can change for the better because of it, in a society that is increasingly acting like a sick person ravaged by countless autoimmune diseases.
The government, again, continued to behave in the way it only knows how - it tries to use its media machinery to make sense of the protests, their demands and the reasons why they started and continue by slandering anyone who thinks something positive about those protests or, God forbid , he speaks on them, by inventing topics that are the "answer" to the demands of the protest... In short, by directing reality shows on a daily basis.
The direction is mainly determined by the President of the country, Aleksandar Vuฤiฤ, whose public appearances in the last month are almost impossible to count. Thus, in his address on Prva television on Friday evening, he mentioned Filip Kapisoda, who killed Ksenia Paichin in 2010, and participated in "Big Brother" a few years earlier, so the tabloids and tabloid television stations continued to dig into the dirty laundry of "Big Brother" participants. ", taunting the president and wondering why people didn't take to the streets because of that (and now "Zadruga" is bothering them). The message was that "their" reality show "Big Brother" had made the promising model Kapisoda a killer.
It all sounds bizarre, but it indicates a clear direction of state policy in relation to the demands of the protest - there is no dialogue or negotiation, I will not give anything, and especially I will not give Pink and Happy. Not because of the "Cooperative", but because it is a support without which the government cannot do.
And Vucic is right. Probably the most coherent demand of the protest is the cancellation of the national frequencies of these two televisions and the sanctioning of print media that spread and promote hatred and nonsense. The feeling that the whole society was poisoned by nonsense instinctively caused a revolt and brought so many people to the streets, and somehow crystallized these demands. The problem is not, of course, in the reality shows themselves, but in the fact that an endless army of obscure phenomena parades on two obscure televisions, they regularly publish answers to all important state questions, from what to do with a society in a frenzy due to hitherto unrecorded mass murders, to the external, economic , the country's security policy.
Thus, the whole life of society turns into a reality worse than the Cooperative and Couples, in which the most important state officials and all citizens of that society are participants, in which even unimaginable crimes like those that happened a month ago are treated as reality, and that's what's scary.
Anyway, the tactical steps of the authorities in relation to the protests are clear: they are buying time, waiting for the energy on the streets to cool down. Summer is coming, previous experiences say that after some time, if there are no concrete results, the number of people at the protests will inevitably decrease, other dramatic events like those in Kosovo are taking place...
It's hard to be smart and say what should be done to prevent something like that from happening and ruining the energy that seemingly appeared out of nowhere. However, it is certain that the absence of any concrete results of the protest would be a heavy blow to those who felt that energy and took to the streets, and there are many of them. And there are not a few people who are not on the streets, but also feel that it is the way it is said Ivan ฤoloviฤ a few weeks ago in an interview with "Vremen", the ulcer of the trauma that we have been carrying for a long time burst.
Nothing has really been the same in this country since a month ago, so it seems that if something doesn't get better, it will definitely get worse.
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