First, the information that Bill Gates and his wife Melinda are separating after 27 years hit the airwaves. Yes, it is true that they carried out everything elegantly, agreed on everything before the announcement of urbi et orbi, divided billions and millions equitably, left everything for humanitarian purposes, but to part after 27 years, this cannot but shake the foundations on which it was built this tiny country of ours.
The teenager, of course, doesn't care, Bill is only important to her because of the Microsoft moment, luckily she wasn't touched by the talk about chipping with the vaccine, and as for Melinda, she's never heard of it anyway. For the most part, she wasn't impressed.
Only, misfortune never comes alone. First Bill and Melinda, and then Zvone Boban and his wife Leonarda. They are breaking up, having been together for more than three decades. If that's not the topic of women crossing themselves anxiously after mass, what the hell is. And Zvone Boban is a legend. It's just that, in her teenage years, she knew about the country that was the youth world champion in Chile, and then about the epic clash in Maksimir between Dinamo and Zvezda, after which that same country began to unstoppably disintegrate. She doesn't care about football in general, which is not so sad considering the way the most important secondary thing in the world has fallen.
It's not youth's fault
But when it's a plague, it's a plague! Danijela and Grašo! Here they write that they are not together anymore, and they were together for a hundred years. It simply has to be shared with the youth.
- Did you hear how Grašo and Danijela are no longer together? - the father asks his high school daughter.
- 'Who? - she will say in amazement.
- Well, the longest-lived couple of our show! - not to be a caring father.
- What should I be interested in!? - don't bring the child home.
- And it's not unimportant, you have to know, let's say if it appears as a question on "Potjera" and you don't know - the father laughs.
Anyway, a small experiment showed that there are those who have no idea that Bill is forcibly vaccinating us in order to control us, that football is played in Croatia at all and that the longest-standing relationship of our variety show has fallen apart. It's not that bad actually, but on the other hand, the result of a small experiment can easily be linked with the results of a large research on political literacy in Croatian high school students. Because, if the youth don't even care about the doyen breaking up after empty years, how will they care how politically literate they are. How will they care when their example(s) are those who are politically literate and that's why they engage in politics, damn it.
But let's do some research for a moment. The focus is on the youth who will start voting tomorrow. Out of 19 questions, and as many of them were about political knowledge in the test, the average Croatian high school student answers nine of them correctly. Not even 50 percent. There, as far as the results are concerned, nothing has improved compared to the 2015 survey. Less than 60 percent of respondents know what the Constitution is, slightly more than 15 percent of students believe that the NDH is not a fascist creation, which is a "great" result considering that six years ago there were 72 percent of them, and more than half of them do not know who is the current prime minister, which is completely strange when a man is in all the media all day, and it is also completely devastating for the media as such.
One third of young people believe that homosexuality is a disease, and that is a terrible figure, but it is also so comforting to know that five years ago there were almost 50 percent of such people. Berto Šalaja, from the Faculty of Political Sciences in Zagreb, who is also one of the authors of the research, will tell Studio 4 of HTV that the significantly lower level of knowledge of students of three-year vocational schools compared to high school students and students of four-year schools is a concern, and then he will emphasize as it is not the youth's fault, but we as a society who did not give them tools and tools. Šalaj will also say that we cannot help but mark our political elites as the most responsible for the current situation, and then explain why.
Hell of a job
- Young people are not born left-wing or right-wing, interested or uninterested. They become that during their upbringing, during their socialization. They come from different families, hang out with different friends, read different social networks. The only channel through which we can try to influence all of them over a period of time is the education system, he said and added that we shouldn't have too high expectations from the education system, but he believes that the problem in Croatia is that - we haven't even tried.
It's not that we didn't try, but the political elites did everything so that the few young people who happen to feel that there are politicians, see as examples of successful politicians one after the other strange platypuses with strange habits. What kind of literacy does Blaženko Boban, the current prefect of Split-Dalmatia, who wants to give the HDZ another mandate!? The man's pre-election slogan is "let actions speak", and among those actions was the staged fire in 2005 on the film set in Salona. The film was called Oman 666, in it the prefect apparently saw only a devil's work that should be chased away from the holy land in a Christian manner, the set was properly set on fire, the damage was in the millions, and the filmmakers of the American 20th Century Fox had no choice but to escape somewhere where politics more literate.
The prefect was caught bragging about this reach to the Minister of Tourism, so they heard him the day after sprinkling himself with ashes and offering some other versions of the story, so that in the end everything would have long been out of date anyway, but imagine the joy of a young man when in his head this crazy story came together just before going out for the political literacy test. Or chaos in his head when he sees a picture of Lovra Kuščević on the portals, or a miracle when he realizes that the entire pre-election program of the HDZ candidate for Zagreb mayor was aimed at proving that he is not a Serb, and that he was baptized on time and not at the age of 14. No less confusing are the camps of the current president of the country, the romanticized life style story in the magazine for hair salons that, unfortunately, the leader of the new opposition Tomislav Tomašević can't do without, and the watches worth a few hundred thousand kunas on the hands of politicians-traders, that is, traders who there are also politicians along the way, not even the Minister of Health, who does not want to get off the 'ship that is still on rough seas', because I guess he is waiting for the ship to sink first, and the ship is healthcare.
Ballots
And that is why Berto Šalaj is right when he says that in this neglect of the segment of civic upbringing and education, we should not make a big difference between our dominant elites HDZ and SDP. And that is why he is right when he says that he thinks their main problem is a minimalist understanding of democracy. "For them, democracy only means elections", believes Šalaj, and not active citizens who have certain knowledge and attitudes.
Youth is to us, a bunch of ballots, or, for God's sake, "bribery" firewood whose goal is only to heat up another mandate as prefect, mayor, mayor. And when that's the case, it's easy to imagine this guy's conversation.
- Did you hear that Jandroković told Milanović that he was a circus performer - the father asks the teenage girl.
- 'Who are those two and why should it concern me - that's what she said.
- Because of the crossword puzzle, and you never know what kind of bizarre questions can end up in "The Pursuit" - the pope will say wisely.
Bonus video:
