Photo: Tanjug video droneNot only will the citizens be offered a laser spectacle that will include the two towers being built in Belgrade on the water - a spectacle, in itself, pointless, equal to a game of glass beads - but, so that the citizens can thoroughly enjoy the glitter of the jindjuv , on New Year's Eve, the traffic over the Sava bridge, as well as over the Gazela, will be interrupted for nine minutes (23.58 to 00.07 minutes after midnight)
It is senseless to grade senselessness. To say, for example, that an action is even more senseless than an action that is already recognized as senseless (decorating the city in September in order to thoroughly prepare for New Year's Eve) is a logical error: an action is meaningful or senseless, it cannot to be more meaningless (although, on the other hand, it can be more meaningful, therefore better). Nevertheless, the ignorant rulers of Serbia, renegades from civilization and logic, achieve precisely miraculous results in a field devoid of meaning: whenever we think that they can no longer surprise us with anything, that they have exhausted all the resources of nonsense, that nonsense, like a gall bladder filled with stones, has reached breaking point, they think of themselves and happily add another pebble where everything is already filled with crazy and harmful ideas and actions. This circumstance reminds us again and again that the reservoir of nonsense is inexhaustible, and that our task is to point out again and again the errors in logic, good taste and reality in general.
The idea of the Belgrade authorities to organize the celebration of the new year in 2022, fired with incredible pride, is a treasure trove of meaningless motives, a suxus of this ignorant government. So, the plan to make the former city center anchored on Trg Republike meaningless and move it into a freak Belgrade on water, it requires an ideological content and an ideological superstructure: which is why it is better for the center to be there and not elsewhere. In modern European cities, the symbolic and spatial center of the city is usually gathered around Republic Square in honor of the republican arrangement which, as evidenced by a 2500-year-old tradition, ensures the highest degree of freedom for citizens. The problem of our ignorant government, however, is that it is, by its essence, falsifying and eclectic, and does not stand on any "big story" (grand recital) which could justify such a radical reorganization of the physical and symbolic space of the City.
In the absence of a "big story", therefore, our ignorant government, according to the criteria of its own bad taste, surrenders to the obsession of simplicity. Not only, however, will the citizens be offered a laser spectacle in which the two towers that are being built will be included - a spectacle, in itself, meaningless, equal to a game of glass beads - but, so that the citizens could thoroughly enjoy the glitter of the jindjuv, on New Year's Eve, traffic over the Sava Bridge, as well as over Gazela, will be interrupted for nine minutes (23.58:00.07 to XNUMX:XNUMX after midnight).
Let's leave it aside. complete nonsense of these procedures. Let's even put aside the fact that these are obviously very harmful practices. Stopping traffic for the sake of selling costume jewelry will be justified by our ignorant government like this: so what, it's nothing to stop traffic on Gazela for nine minutes, when you - you who are now whining about that circumstance - stopped traffic for two hours, and that grandmother didn't arrive to lunch for you. The essence of the traffic stop nonsense is at its purest symbolic level. It is a step towards the removal (delegitimization) of the former center of Belgrade and its degradation to the periphery, and its promotion new center of Belgrade, one more step, therefore, which follows after the installation of a monstrous monument to the medieval ruler in that area, and the organization of a military parade and similar "laser-musical" performances.
The strength of the symbolic move - to make sure there is no confusion - is not in its separation from the material carrier, but precisely in the fact that the symbolic is inscribed, carved into the material: a monstrous monument to a medieval ruler it is very material, and the symbolic power only follows the material basis. The symbolic message that our ignorant government sends to the citizens is: the future of Serbia is not in the Republic as a regime that offers freedom to the citizens, but in the Middle Ages. The future of Serbia is not in good taste and superior culture, but in the game of glass beads, lasers and third-rate music, in that, therefore, monstrous combination of the Middle Ages and high technology. In the enchantment of simplicity.
However long it lasted, this enterprise was doomed to bitter failure both by our ignorant rulers and, what is much worse, by the citizens who will walk on the Gazelle that night to admire the glittering and tinkling of the ginju. The city, and thus the city center, despite all the spatial and symbolic limitations - but also despite all the spatial and symbolic advantages - is made up of people. The unfortunates who, through their own stupidity, by grace, or by force, will be settled in a monstrous concrete conglomerate on the right bank of the Sava, will not be able to carry out the task that the ruler graciously gave them: to constitute the center of the city with human essence. For that, however, a solid civilizational and human substance is needed. Barbarians do not create cities. They tear them down.
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