Cannon attack on the tent where he is freezing day and night and on hunger strike Diana Hrka, was thrown from Pionirski Park, only a few days after the hugging crowd in Ćaciland squealed as they played the war-mongering song "The mother went to look for her son". All that was not enough for SNS supporters, who for 3000 dinars come by bus to provoke and terrorize Diana. They provoked the woman with a laser as well, just to make her a little more angry.
Citizens can't stand it anymore, they feel primal anger, which experts also talk about in the new issue of "Vremena".
"Yes, for many of us it could be said at first glance that we felt hatred towards people from the inner sides of the fence in front of the National Assembly", says psychologist Goran Tomin for "Vreme". "However, such a feeling comes from one second place, which is active and life-giving rebellion against helplessness, injustice, humiliation and torture we feel."
Where does hatred come from?
Predrag Voštinić, an activist of the Local Front, tells "Vreme" that it is not good to refuseread hate as an emotion because it comes as a consequence of great injury and as a sign that we don't want to be hurt anymore.
"That platitude 'I'm not capable of hating' originates from a self-loving self-image, that is of pride, because in that way from his identiaunt, we reject an entire part of humanity nature. Pride, on the other hand, is a trait that would should have been ashamed, unlike spoof the room to feel hatred", says Voshtinic and adds: "If we hate, then, ukabuzzes with hurt that we don't want to suffer anymore, then its occurrence is also a sign that we need to know when we need to act against what hurts us, and in that sense it is a useful emotion."
The explosion of negative feelings flared up among high school students, with whom "Vreme" spoke. They were among the first to stop everything for two days, to introduce blockades in schools, just to stand behind Diana Hrka and protect her.
"Whatever people think politically, what (what they did to Dijana Hrka in Ćaciland) was so inhumane, so inhumane, that we all collectively started to cry," a high school graduate from Belgrade high school told "Vreme". "We came to the school and exchanged recordings from Pionirski Park, where you can see people who are fully aware of what they are doing. They did not underestimate the suffering of the mother of the deceased young man, they somehow distorted that suffering. They mocked her."
Citizens hungry for justice
Psychologist Aleksandar Dimitrijević writes that hunger and pain are psychological triggers.
"A hunger strike also means that you hope that the time that passes increases the pressure and that the evildoers will repent and redeem themselves. This is a non-violent form of protest that does not endanger the person against whom it is directed in any way, except that it appeals to his conscience. And therein lies the great danger of hunger strikes - that you may be trying to influence the conscience where there is no conscience and compassion," writes Dimitrijević.
He explains that in many situations hunger can also serve as a strong metaphor.
"On the one hand, when someone has a strong need even for something abstract, we know how to say 'hungry for justice' or 'hungry for knowledge', because that desire is a benchmark for everything that comes later in life," he adds.
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