We live in a time where events remind us of something more than we know what they really represent and what they bring us. It's as if the recollection overtakes even the imagination.
In an effort to explain why they should secede from Spain, Catalan secessionists point out that the democratic central government resembles the dictatorship of Francisco Franco. Others, on the other hand, compare the tensions on the Iberian Peninsula with the events before the breakup of the SFRY, and still others see the motives for the explosion of separatism in the epilogue of the breakup here.
Instead of the Balkans being completely Europeanized, Europe is being Balkanized - the chroniclers judge. They use the old term "Balkanization" as a symbol of endless friction between states and peoples, for the current persecutions between EU members and within them.
Due to disregarding the rules of the political game, D. Trump is increasingly being compared to R. Nixon, who resigned in the face of the certainty that he would be impeached (a trial in parliament that could lead to the removal of the president). Vladimir Putin is criticized from the West for wanting the territorial restoration of the USSR, and Xi Jinping for raising his authority to the level of Mao Zedong. Both of those called respond that the West is still chained by memories of its long dominance, so much so that it ignores that it has disappeared in the changed balance of power.
To many, North Korea's nuclear provocations look like the Cuban missile crisis of the past, with the added fear that this "repeat" could lead to the third world war and the first nuclear duel. The situation in the Middle East is reminiscent of the saying "everything changes in order to stay the same", that is, the situation is steadily worsening in new ways. Western sanctions against Moscow, due to the amputation of a part of Ukraine, resemble those from the Cold War, which, according to many analysts, the current tightening of relations between the USA and Russia increasingly resembles.
China, at the same time, is expanding its influence with a project under the ancient name "Silk Road". Turkey is beginning to feel in the Balkans like the home it left, so now it is ambitiously returning to it, by a different route.
There is too much memory and it can be dangerous - I agree with the author in the London Guardian, whose thesis is that Europe is plunging into an unforgettable "orgy", where past triumphs are used to suppress current troubles, while reforms that would benefit the entire continent are absent. We have entered the era of the cult of memory, which is very destructive, he adds and cites a number of examples. As if delivering the final blow to the already disproved doctrine of the end of history, the commentator in the same newspaper points out that "history is returning" - with the growth of nationalism, populism and anti-establishment impulses - in Europe as well, even though it projected itself as a union for the sake of overcoming historical traumas and as such remained the most desirable place for a dignified life.
Something of all that comes to life in these areas as well. In our country specifically, we need to be rescued from our troubles by a part of the staff that got us into them in the 1990s. The rhetoric that is used often sounds like that time, with a novelty that has not been recorded anywhere so far - that the majority of pro-government media forces an anti-government approach to foreign policy, propagating anti-European views even though the authorities are applying for EU membership. And that, I guess, is still in accordance with the ruling course, which does not renounce balancing between the West and Russia, while reminding of the former policy of non-alignment, the scope of which has been exceeded here by new circumstances, among which the fact that our state at that time fell apart, as well as that is currently still "unfinished business".
The past increases, the future decreases - the writing of the Japanese writer H. Murakami is quoted on various occasions. That sentence would gain additional importance if it were confirmed after the disclosure of the remaining documents on the Kennedy assassination. The official version, according to which the assassination was the act of an individual, is persistently contested by conspiracy theorists, so any evidence that Kennedy was the victim of a wider conspiracy could lead America to reexamine its own system, and perhaps its relations with "complicit" parts of the world. Everything that we have lived through or inherited as a matter of fact, one would say, becomes almost as uncertain as what follows us in an increasingly uncertain, even near, future. It turns out that much of what has passed is not gone, but rather, almost inexorably, recedes.
Only when what we are going through, both here and in the world, becomes a thing of the past - as in the case of Kennedy's assassination - we will get a chance to find out what important things really happened to us. What state secrets "spared" us and for what did they make us futile or programmed, and always innocent victims, and occasionally false winners.
At one time, the movie It Happened Tomorrow was popular. And as things stand now, it's time to make the premiere of the screenplay under the title It Will Happen Yesterday. That is, what is persistently repeated to us.
(NOVIMAGAZIN.RS)
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