Views: Dimitar Mircev

The civic non-culture as a political culture

The extremely indecent public polemics between the head of the state and the government continues. The spokesperson of the biggest government coalition has asked for the president’s accountability three times so far; the head of the state publicly blames “his” government for the pause on the road to access the Union. One leader of the second ruling party disqualifies the head of the state as a drug addict and alcoholic; others call him “since” since he was saying bad things about us to the Europeans. However, the head of the state, in the very style of our home made handicraft, threatened the abovementioned leader that he would make him vanish, disappear, or maybe the reverse….At least that is what has been officially registered and yet not denied.

If only that was all. The gamma of non-culture in our country is unlimited. Any dismissed police officer in this country can heal his frustrations at the same time establishing in his therapeutic  procedure a political party with a pompous name of “national”, “Macedonian”, “democratic”, “people’s”, “republican” or so. And the, give six bombastic interviews, which clearly demonstrate his elementary problem of correctly using the complex sentences. Nevertheless, that flaw, in the race for high political score to gain the halo of the nation and the conspiracy against the nation, can be the winning point. At least in a couple of mass media. Kerim, the man who is about to assume the position of president of the UN General Assembly, which is one of the highest positions in the world and one of the biggest achievements of the Macedonian foreign policy, was declared by that poor policeman a sneak, a spy, disloyal member of the country, with no integrity or credibility and no “Professional diplomat”.

This sounds almost unbelievable, at least for us who had been “processed by the intelligence” that the “certain information” have been forged in 95% of the cases.

Despite everything, the abovementioned police officer pushes forward his anti-state and anti-Macedonian campaign and no one reacts to it. Our “liberal and libertant political culture absorbs everything, no matter if that came from an imbecile source. I cannot understand, however, why Kerim sues him for defamation of character, when the police and the public prosecutor should have done that the very moment he gave the statement. Namely, the criminal act of abusing and distorting official information or discrediting an individual (in this case, more broadly) can be processed at least according to several articles of the criminal code.

Well, then. We are faced with another case – that of the outcast, the hybrid, the bastard, the product of Udba, Rusi; we say hybrid for pure biological reasons since he came from two parents of different nationalities. Purely idiotic, but typical of our level. The second party in the ruling coalition did not allow Rusi to sleep calmly. They probably mean to sing ballads, romances or children songs under his window for the rest of his life, to let him enjoy such an ethno-romantic ambient. The vocabulary of that party is truly unique, juicy, original and extremely primitive. And then, just a few days later we come across new political nuisances. The president of the new coalition partner in the government makes a statement that refers to the present political partner calling it a political prostitute!?? May God keep us from such and similar to them and all the others who do not measure their tongues and brains.

On the other hand, some of us have to teach their students civic education, European culture, moral values and standards. What should serve them as an example, which theory or indicator? Should that be the lowest rhetoric, the ugly discourse, the ideologically and “anti-burgeouis” worn-out phraseology? It is not the rhetoric, or the language, the grammar, the vocabulary, the mental expressions which are hard. The problem is that those people serve as examples to this nation – a public, media and political example – and they mean what they say, and are ready to do what they think. And what should the rest of us think, say or do? What should we tell the students who learn about the civil society and political sciences, or the postgraduates in European studies? That what they read or hear is untrue, unreal, virtual. For his thousand-page memoirs, Winston Churchill won the Nobel Prize for literature! One cannot find at least one offensive word for his political opponents, though there were many he held very low opinion of, or according to some, he ridiculed. But it was discreetly, in close circles and intimately.

British students understand Churchill.

 

(The author is a professor at FON University, Skopje)