Screenshot, contemporary tip

"Dangerous Liaisons" is based on peeking into other people's letters. An exceptional and unsurpassed epistolary novel. An exceptional story from the court, intrigues and behind-the-scenes actions, subterfuges and intrigues. The innocent and the uncorrupted suffer the most, the cunning corrupters rejoice. Nothing is fair, but no one has guaranteed a fair game.

The film "The Lives of Others", which takes place in the time of East Germany, shows us all the methods of opening private letters by the care service. One type of agent uses steam to unstick envelopes to make them easier to open, others open with a knife and later use glue to hide their intervention.

But in 2022, things are far more sophisticated. The screenshot is available. It's a modern tip. People type messages and then type each other. Kindergarten Viber groups, business communication, party correspondence, fights and confessions are screenshotted.

Sometimes a neighbor spied on a neighbor when he listens to Radio Luxembourg and jazz, if he reads Russian writers, on the one who has an LSCG poster in his room, on the one who watches Elmag TV or has a SCG or only CG sticker on his car. The opinion is being screenshotted now. What is not publicly stated.

Same story, just modernized. Framed. But anything private is disgusting. Dirty laundry is still just laundry, a personal matter. Lots of supposedly close friends screenshot each other. They send further correspondence. Therefore, when you receive someone else's screenshot, know that they will also screenshot you. Or they already have who knows how many times. Because a screenshot is like a boomerang.

There is no going back after that. Private becomes public. Words don't count, words don't count. Everything went to hell, including communication, intimacy, honor and friendship. That is why it is disgusting and dishonorable when parties deal with the publication of private correspondence. However important they are for society, this is not done. Who pays for fuel, who calls for protests, who calms his membership, who conducts, and who covers up, we can do without it.

The parties could deal with personal image, and not harness all the forces to bring down the other. Because spitting doesn't pay off, because you become a spitter, no matter how many times you hit the person you were targeting. That's why there is a disgustingly accurate expression "We're not going to spit, we're going to lick". This will surely happen to our parties that are now spat at, they will make compromises and alliances, they will reconcile and embrace each other in a future election campaign, but that screenshot and the spat that was versatile and mutual will remain etched in people's minds.

When we already refer to honor too often, we could use a little less screenshots.

They don't go with each other. It doesn't work at all.

It would be really nice if we didn't write a sequel to "Dangerous Liaisons" with unholy actions, so we wouldn't spit on ourselves.