"The need for hatred," wrote Lesek Kolakowski, "is explained by the circumstance that it destroys those who hate from the inside, that it makes them helpless against the state." Hence the impressive efforts of the president of all citizens of Serbia to turn citizens into haters
Yesterday was president of all citizens tried to imitate an apology to the citizens Of Serbia. However, he did not specify what he tried to apologize for. For releasing the thugs from his party who broke a student's jaw? Because he pardoned a woman who tried to kill a student with her car and seriously injured her? Because he called the citizens of this country terrorists, foreign mercenaries, freaks? For being, because of the system he established, responsible for death of sixteen people in Novi Sad? Did he try to apologize for that? Because he overthrew the republic, despised justice, buried the truth, headed a band of robbers?
What exactly did Aleksandar Vučić try to apologize for in a form in which it was not easy to recognize the apology because he does not know how to apologize (hence we say "attempt)"?
The man, therefore, who destroyed society calls for unity. A person who never, ever, showed an iota of compassion - and, unfortunately, there were occasions when he did, for example when the children were killed in "Pondkeeper" - now he's talking about compassion. The character who growls every day from the propaganda media now talks about gentleness. A cynical phenomenon who on October 30 - two days before November 1 - answered a journalist's question about the rally in Novi Sad: "What, is there a match?", so such and such a person, only a day later, dares to speak about the tragedy in Novi Sad. And now we're supposed to believe him? Now we're supposed to forget everything he's done and everything he's said in the last 13 years (or the day before yesterday) and believe him, unprovoked?
At the same time as the president of all citizens spreads peace, love, compassion, while calling for unity and tolerance, his propaganda the funds are directed at the citizens of Serbia: Informer, Pink, First. Happy... The students from Novi Pazar are Islamist fundamentalists (and trash), while the rest are just trash. From the propaganda media of Aleksandar Vučić, who are his spokespersons, only one emotion hisses: hatred.
Hate and love are not political categories. Josif Visarionović Stalin loved his people to the point of imbecility, which is why he did not kill more than forty million people. Adolf Hitler did everything for his people and almost destroyed them. Slobodan Milosevic he swore at the people and humiliated them like no one has ever done before. Aleksandar Vučić does not hide his hatred, but hatred, we say, is not a political category. Until it does. In 1977, the Polish philosopher Leszek Kolakowski wrote that hatred is a "secret tool of totalitarianism" that poisons the entire spiritual fabric of a person and thereby deprives him of his dignity. "The need for hatred," continues Kolakovsky, "is explained by the circumstance that it destroys those who hate from the inside, that it makes them helpless against the state." Hence the impressive efforts of the president of all citizens to turn the citizens of Serbia into haters who will hate some other citizens of Serbia, Muslims, Šiptars, Catholics (especially Croats), all those, in fact, whom he has always hated passionately. The one who hates, observes Kolakovsky, becomes an easy prey of the hating state. He who hates ceases to be resistant to hatred. The need for hatred, Kolakovsky added, "is equal to spiritual suicide, self-destruction, it tears the roots of solidarity between those who hate." This is why the president of all the citizens of Serbia suddenly became so lonely.
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