Is it coming down? When they hear that wording, people immediately wonder - is it time. You can see two, clearly divided groups - conservatives (let's call them that) who think it's too early to give in, and liberals (equally tentative) who always think the time is right for greater freedom, and expect people to rise to the challenge. Which usually turns out to be a naive, but also a healing illusion.
Really, what will that concession look like?
It cannot be a literal replica of the act of prohibition - namely, it is always easier to prohibit than to liberate. Like, the ban was lifted, and now everyone runs to cafes and betting shops? I don't think that would be a good mod.
In anticipation of relaxation, it is not difficult to notice some - contractions. Media reports confirm what we all see. Despite the government's admonition of true values, there is less and less freedom here. But these are not restrictions caused by the corona virus. There, the culprit is more persistent and older than the current virus. Some think even more devastating, at least according to Montenegro.
Maybe they got a little carried away... The challenge is this kind of "omnipotence", especially for mentalities like ours. A good part of the democratic procedures has been suspended, so the key question is - how to refrain from the opportunity to complete some pre-election and party affairs? Do we have politicians who would be able to do that, that is, refrain from abuses? Do you recognize someone?
What kind of image does a government that relaxes and what kind of a government that tightens send? What are they doing better, where are they more on their own? How they "educated" the audience and which genre the audience prefers... And here is the announcement that, if the measures are not respected, there will be strictures. Mom picked a stick.
At a time when the government criticizes citizens for "relaxing too much", you have the opportunity to see the libido energy that was the essence of the medieval carnival as such. Carnival was a response to a similar challenge, a kind of psychological "ventilation" that saved and shaped the Renaissance concept of society in Europe. Under a mask (the Renaissance one, not the current medical one) - you are deprived of responsibility, and everything that was usually unacceptable is suddenly within reach.
The power of this virus depends to a large extent on our perception of its power, to paraphrase the deadly accurate line that Gorbachev utters in the Chernobyl series. Therefore, it is not surprising that the media dimension of the entire pandemic is crucial for the global picture: the beginning of the story about easing meant that it would certainly come.
In China, one of the McDonald's restaurants, we read, banned blacks from entering. There, namely, they believe that the virus was "brought" and that it is precisely black people who are spreading it. So this virus is proving to be a sort of Rorschach blot for racists from all meridians. In England, they beat up a young man with a "Chinese appearance", convinced that he brought the virus... So the talk about the virus, while crossing the continents, also serves as a litmus test for our dangerous, "everyday" racism... And what will all these racists do when will this virus pass? When they have to return to their chronic hatreds.
And us? Our chronic experts are waiting for us... There seems to be no let-up. So here's some fun, the Harms way.
Minister Bogdanović calls the Directorate for Games of Chance. Before picking up the phone, he carefully put on his nylon gloves. For a moment or two, is he thinking about whether to take a picture and post a selfie on Instagram? To see what the minister is responsible for. A pleasant female voice was heard. “Here you go”. After introducing himself, the minister asked, officially coldly: "Please tell me when Macbeth is coming?" The alert employee tells the minister - "You'd better call Sošić from the CNP." "And why would he know when a Scottish betting shop starts working, how would he, yes, Macbeth?", said the minister resignedly. That's how it is when you live in a country where no one knows their job, this good servant of the people thought afterwards.
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