Vučić's violence over meaning

There is every chance that the Serbian Progressive Party (that is, Vučić Aleksandar) will choose Zoran Djindjić's words "Serbia must not stand still" as its pre-election slogan. Okay, it can. Everything is possible with Vučić. But what is this about? It's about words. On the first level, which is usually the last level, the SNS tries to attract every vote it can and by any means, including physical violence, as well as violence against meaning. Taking over Điđić's words is violence against meaning, common sense and shame as a civilizational asset. Well, Vučić and SNS are not famous for speaking meaningfully, for relying on common sense and for being able to be ashamed (they can't, they are shameless), but when they take the words of their arch-enemy - and Zoran Đinđić was and remains Vučić's arch-enemy because represents everything exactly the opposite of what Vučić represents - then it is another step further in the production of nonsense, the only discipline that this team sovereignly rules.

The said slogan, to that extent, would be nothing but a part of the tactics applied by the SNS since its inception: all that we from the SNS do, all that is dishonorable, disgusting, lying, ugly, all banditry, all that the civilized world rejects as garbage , all that, without hesitation, to attribute to another in order to focus attention elsewhere. "Serbia must not stop", therefore, is a sentence that makes no sense when uttered by any member of the SNS, because Serbia is standing, and it was the SNS that stopped it.

However, that is not entirely true. Serbia does not stand still. She's still going backwards. She is sinking. She is moving in the direction of her own death. So when SNS exclaims that Serbia must not stop, it only means that Serbia must not stop on its way to death. That is why what the SNS (ie Vučić) is saying is meaningless. This only means that on December 17, Serbia should put the additional burden of the SNS on itself in order to sink faster, better, stronger into the quicksand into which it was pushed by the SNS. The meaning of the words that SNS takes from Đinđić is actually in the nonsense that SNS inaugurated as its program and reason for existence.

Progressive contradiction

The Serbian Progressive Party is a group of people who first occupied and then messed up the public space led by the worst of the worst. As such, it is a party without an idea, therefore without an ideology. As a party without an idea, that is, an ideology, it can appropriate any (we have seen: anyone's) idea, that is, an ideology. And for a short time, for one afternoon if necessary, say, or shorter, during a television interview, only to move on to something else after 15 minutes.

First of all, this is called a contradiction, and then, when it is repeated, nonsense.

SNS (that is, Vučić) can claim anything, without worrying about the meaning of what is said. SNS (that is, Vučić) can offer anything, because it has nothing. The unbearable lightness of Vučić's promises stems from the fact that for him the given word, as an important link on which civilization rests, does not exist.

To promise something means to consider the future. It means making a commitment in the present that you will fulfill the promise in the future. However, does anyone remember any of Vučić's fulfilled promises? (This is why, let's recall, Vučić reacted in an inhuman way to the news about the death of the murdered children in "Ribnikar": nobody's future matters to him - except his own - he does not recognize pain as a category that lasts in the future - because that requires to know what compassion is - and that man has never known that quality). A given word binds people shaped by civilization. However, he is not bound by anything. That is why he can use any and anyone's words. This is why the SNS is a group of mindless falsifiers.

Although the seemingly infinite choice of words seems to guarantee an infinity of rule, things are not quite like that. In all that, in all the changes, in all the praises and in the absolute irresponsibility of what he says, there is one unchanging thing: reality. And one of the characteristics of reality is stubbornness.

Vučić and his team, say, for more than a decade, claim that the reality is different than it is. They support these claims with words that do not make sense when they say them, let's say that Serbia must not stop. Meaning, on the other hand, as a linguistic category, even in art, cannot be separated from reality in such a way that it offends common sense. At some point, nonsense will succumb to reality, and that is inevitable. If words do not bind him, he is bound by reality, and reality is the intersection of all destinies that Vučić has canceled in these 11 years.

What he does not understand, however, is that words are also reality. That words are the very core of reality. When the words he uttered without any responsibility and without any sense come back to his face, it will be too late for him. Let's hope it won't be too late for us.

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