When a society wants to completely collapse, in terms of its values, as well as any other stability, it is enough to destroy its educational system and culture. All other problems and spills arise from it. In our reality, education and culture have been fundamentally separated for thirty years, the absence of a real concern of the state to work on these social categories, as those from which the basic strength of every community is drawn, has its negative consequences and results. Which can be seen in all forms of our common existence.
It has become clear for a long time that within this country there are no real foundations on which to build an opportunity for the picture of the coming future to be somewhat different and more progressive. In other words, from the end of the war until today, everything was done to prevent the establishment of those systems that would create opportunities for us to reach a point of change, a true and real one.
Which would imply a new social agreement, which transcends all limitations and conflicts, overcomes the traumatic past and historical delays, and seeks a way to find its way in a world that is changing more and more rapidly, becoming more complex and cruel. Hence, from year to year, from election to election, we have a chorus of repetition of familiar patterns. The model is always the same, and whatever content is poured into it, it is swallowed up and adapted to the coordinates determined by a mixture of partitocratic and ethno-national customs of behavior. There are no new ideas, no vision, no utopian daydreams that, at least in perspective, can offer some solution, give some direction in order to organize this country more closely and more appropriately to the needs of our modern times.
Therefore, when it is said that education and culture are the essence of the being of every state, then it is meant above all that they are the factors that generate the creation of different opportunities. They are the foundation of all other relationships within a community. From them, opportunities are created to finally break through the seemingly impenetrable membranes of traditions and habits, in order to reach a free space and a liberated perspective in which things would be seen more clearly, decisions would be made more responsibly and policies would be implemented for the benefit of all citizens. In the past three decades, this society has produced dozens of generations who have not received any framework of security, nor a single reason that would prompt them to attach themselves to this country beyond the mythologem of the nation. There is, therefore, no necessary common content, that light towards which, no matter how elusive it is, it goes, which is sought to be reached through actions and actions that give rise to hope that something better can be achieved. We have seen in the examples of the recent devastating floods that at one point there seems to be some hope for this country. No matter how difficult the circumstances are, suddenly a critical mass of those who, in spite of everything, have not suppressed their humanity, and realize that issues of solidarity and helping others are essential features of civilization, are created.
However, the question arises as to what limits us from treating each other with more humanity every day, not only at the moment of some disaster and accident. Of course, it is important to show that we are ready to help when someone suffers and is injured, but wouldn't it be more reasonable to create conditions in which the possibility of accidents will be reduced to a minimum, to raise awareness that united we have more power to change what is happening to us? concerns. Again and again, I return to the initial questions of education and culture, as those links in the social mechanism through which a critical citizen can develop, one who exerts pressure, asks questions, who understands that power is not a given in itself, but that it is there to do what is the highest priority for us. In the end, an educated man, a man who has come to know himself through various areas of culture, is one who can see his own mistakes as well as the mistakes of others. It can influence them, divert attention and thwart any form of social alienation that leads the community to ruin. If, on the other hand, we return to what is our immediate reality now and here, we can clearly see that there has been a systematic and conscious obscuration here, a descent to the low branches of existence in which we behave as packs, and not as a self-aware community that knows what is what is important to her and what is not. It's never too late to wake up, the only question is whether we have the strength and desire to really wake up.
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