"Our lives are really only vague interludes between the great electric games of God the Father," (Eugene O'Neill, The Strange Interlude)
The President of the Republic of Serbia, Vučić Aleksandar, in an author's text (Blic, 24.07.) called for an 'internal dialogue' about Kosovo. Perhaps it would have been more appropriate and expedient if he had invited everyone to an 'internal monologue'. Or that he has already spoken his soliloquy to us. A dialogue is a conversation between two or more people, and a soliloquy is a conversation with oneself. Whereas, what we read in the author's text is ordinary exaggeration.
I don't like to hear or, in this case, sense the word 'war' from Vučić's pen, even when he calls for peace. Paranoia is the best-selling Serbian product and the president uses it abundantly through the leitmotif of his text: "And just imagine what could be..."
At the same time, while calling for dialogue - he who almost succeeded in abolishing the right to opinion - he continues to insult, attack and belittle potential interlocutors, and to accuse journalists. He declared the opponents of the "dialogue on Kosovo" in advance as those who commit "a kind of historical crime". It could not be said that he gives the impression of a man who is ready for dialogue. About anything. That's why first a monologue, but an internal one.
Internal monologue is a form that evokes the processes that take place in the hero's consciousness, not necessarily with logical connection, grammatical order or respect for chronological order. Although, in the specific case, the order would be important - for all citizens of our country but also for all our neighbors. So, through the inner monologue, the hero should educate his feelings, intentions and thoughts. And the most intimate thoughts, those closest to the subconscious. When the hero utters a soliloquy on stage, he can be alone, and if the other heroes are present - then they do not hear his monologue, even though he utters it in front of everyone on stage.
That, for example, would be an interesting form on the given topic: Kosovo and Metohija. We are all there, everything reminds of happiness, we all pretend not to hear, until something truly confessional, honest, conscious, rational, cathartic, accurate appears in the hero's words. At least a grain of my own guilt and truth, at least in the area of "my influence on the nation's consciousness since '93." till today". After that, if the inner monologue was worded correctly, maybe he would find quality interlocutors for the inner dialogue. Of course, it would be desirable for all interlocutors to go through their inner monologues first.
For the avoidance of doubt: this issue, which the President now poetically calls the "Kosovo Gordian Knot", must be resolved. Well, we've been saying that for years, while he was still listing the borders of "all Serbian countries". Not to go back to the distant past... Even in the last five years, when someone raised this issue, he would be declared a traitor and a foreign mercenary or he would be silenced - like Vladimir Kostić, who, for the first time as SANU president, said: "Someone he must tell the people the truth about Kosovo". Not so long ago, those who criticized the shameful decoration of the themed train 'Kosovo is Serbia' or the whole policy of that defeat, were declared "Haradin's Serbs". Among them, my little one.
Let's briefly consider the loose possibility that the internal dialogue will begin, in the way that the Serbian president imagines. In a country full of tasteless terror and media darkness, the president suddenly calls us not to be silent. If it wasn't absurd, it would be grotesque! In a country where elections are just a farce, institutions and the National Assembly are just screens, and the new prime minister is just an illusion - we are invited to a dialogue!? Exactly, it would be a semblance of dialogue, like the whole policy. During the five years of political necrophilia in Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić did not have a single dialogue on television. We listen to 'dialogues' in which only he speaks, i.e. monologues that stifle the public and common sense of citizens. And now he says: let's talk, this is our business. Everything else is only his, but Kosovo is ours.
Such and such a dialogue would only be an exhibition of his cleverness; demonstrative exercise of the importance of the Serbian Orthodox Church and SANA; the illusion of respect for citizens and civil society as a whole; attempt to share responsibility; confirmation of the existence of 'enemies' who are 'holding back' Serbia (otherwise he would have done it much earlier and better). So, a mockup of the dialogue. With a small hope of a Nobel Peace Prize.
Let's also consider the incredible possibility of first hearing the president's soliloquy, and only then moving on to the dialogue. A soliloquy can strengthen the hero's self-confidence. And that, no matter how confident he looks, is necessary for Aleksandar Vučić. That's why his inner monologue is needed first. Because it is a procedure in which we follow memories, dilemmas, attitudes, past and present. And all this on the basis of numerous associations that connect different mental contents. Those very contents, of the most influential man in the country, would be of inestimable importance for the citizens and "responsible approach, brave and realistic, with a view to the future...", which the president could write about without exaggeration. If even after that he wouldn't come to his senses, maybe the citizens would.
(Bojana Maljević is an actress and producer, "Twitter, scumbag, foreign mercenary" in her free time)
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