The world has become too small for this amount of division.
Races, nations, religions, ideologies, generations, sexes, sexual orientations, degrees of education, birthplaces, languages, cultural groups, styles, clubs, clans, genres... One of the most difficult tasks - especially in this logorheic digital era - is trying to reconcile or, far from it, of neutrality among the opposites within the existing innumerable affiliations.
The Balkans, this environment of ours, historically accustomed and addicted to perishing under all kinds of banners, welcomed every new division with great love and hatred. So, just like that, we are ready for this new era, in line with the new era in which we live.
Ladies and gentlemen, friends and comrades, brothers and sisters, this and that, after feudalism, capitalism, socialism and consumerism, it is our honor to get acquainted with factionalism, our new basis for division.
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Anyone who has not become familiar with the rhetoric of anti-vaxxers does not know the term "muzzled". This name (a relative of the flat-earther "globusar") denotes all people who wear masks with - let's paraphrase the so-called opponents of vaccination - "the crazy idea to protect themselves or others from a virus that does not exist and is designed only to subdue us all". With the vaccine, the human race is also "chipped" and thus monitored, although few moderate anti-vaxxers believe that the vaccine is dangerous only because it contains substances that are dangerous to the lives of those who would protect their lives with immunization. It`s complicated, one would say.
This large army of pandemic skeptics was opposed, for example, by factionalist panickers, mostly represented in the editorial boards of disaffected tabloids and portals. They don't start their work-hysterical day without announcing the new tragedy that the pandemic will bring upon us if we don't all get vaccinated. Infodemics, a milder version of this "wing" of division, deal every minute of their existence with new information about the vaccine, which, I guess, would have less power if we were not properly informed about it. And we didn't.
And in short, this is the basic division within factionalism, a social order based on the fact that our civilization is not adapted to the needs of defense against a pandemic. And that the injection in two installments is the only way to do this - it is too demanding for health, economy, culture and politics "disease" - do not spread further. The vaccine thus, suddenly, became the basis of the survival of everything we have, including our divisions. Neither guilty nor obliged.
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In our local environment, it is no longer "in" to be some kind of "outdated" national fundamentalist, because to every mention of reorganizing borders, rearranging the historical context, reconstructing the size of the "living space" - the only response is a yawn and a snort. "We are not interested in that, do you have anything about the Vaccine?"
And now it doesn't matter whose Tesla or Ivo Andrić; nor whose is Brčko and whose is Prevlaka - but whose is the syringe. Now, therefore, it is fashionable to be a Vaccionacionalist. This new type of nationalism has the task of promoting the nationality of the Vaccine. Pfizer (American), Sputnik (Russian), Sineshtagod (Chinese)... This one "our" has enormous advantages over the pricks of "their" vaccinators. Mentally forgotten checkerboards, eagles, lilies and who would now list everything and what not, have been replaced by some new flags with crossed syringes under the logos of pharmaceutical companies. Which, on the one hand, is almost as logical as any previous division, and on the other hand, it actually represents the greatest achievement that the Vaccine brought us here. From grenades, bullets and bayonets, we were finally reduced to fighting with a needle; weapons that are absolutely adequate to the role, strength and importance that we all have together.
In the cosmos and in every other environment.
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