A world is fading into oblivion

(oslobodjene.ba)

The general neurosis of the world and today shows us that everything that was announced during the pandemic as a new reality, which we viewed with unease and disbelief, has today become an absolutely brutal reality that we need to get used to. In that syntagm that was circling above our heads, there were many unknowns, the pandemic effect scattered much of what we knew, what we were calibrated to, but it was clear that the time when we could at least partially perceive some primary order according to which the world around us functions has passed.

Of course, that earlier planetary spirit was neither innocent nor just, but the illusion of some kind of universal goodness and meaning of everything that keeps civilization in some kind of balance was nurtured. Hence, our current disbelief in terms of tectonic shifts and the collapse of every order acts as a sobering experience, because we were lulled into thinking that there was some constant, that someone invisible was controlling and holding it all together, and now that everything is falling apart and moving in the direction of completely schizophrenic action, panic is great and fear is the dominant category that determines all our expectations and hopes.

So, everything we knew, everything we believed in, has exploded like a soap bubble, and a global rearrangement has occurred that still has no end in sight, so there is certainly a justified fear of where it will stop, to what extremes what we are now witnessing will lead.

In other words, the curse of "may I live in interesting times" is being fulfilled in its entirety, with disrupted systems of interconnected vessels flooding every form of human existence, and there are no longer those who are safe and untouchable. What was previously reserved for small countries, on the edges and margins of the planetary neoliberal cauldron, is returning like a boomerang to the backyard of those who believed they were protected by the strength of their economy, their social benefits and the orderly democratic principles of governance. Now that means nothing, the great sheriff is mad in his cowboy rush, crossing every border and trampling on everything without restraint.

Determined to treat the entire Earth as a playground for his insane visions, he knows no obstacles, and will go as far as necessary to satisfy the appetites of a crazed monster dressed in a Hollywood star costume. And everything is like a bad movie, a horror with elements of bizarre fantasy, at the end of which no superhero appears to save the day, but everything collapses and leads to even greater division and misery.

On one side are those who frenetically applaud him and enjoy what he does with popcorn, and on the other are those who are powerless and frightened who have no mechanism for defense and protection, because for years they have agreed to the dismantling of their own societies, submitting to complicity in the dismantling of every structure of self-sufficiency and autonomy. The realization is quite clear, and it is contained in the fact that there are no more rules, that anyone today or tomorrow can be a target and with a single stroke of power and force disappear and be wiped off the map of existence.

Yes, what I'm saying may sound truly apocalyptic, but it's not an exaggeration, because we people today are in every sense living our own apocalypse. Hope is a spent commodity, the future is a blurred category, and the brutal present testifies to us that we are completely trapped in powerlessness and that it is spreading day by day.

But there is one possibility, and that is the search for individual freedom, for exclusion from the dominant categories of madness, the creation of a microspace of safety and the refusal, despite the chaos and everything that suffocates, to engage in the permanent paranoia of informational insanity. This is not some Buddhist mysticism, but an awakening of consciousness, small movements within the scope of our private space.

Defending what is within us, and what no one, if we want to make the effort, can take away from us. Then extending a hand to the first like-minded person next to us, and creating small islands that no wild beast ready to destroy everything that makes us alive and thinking will be able to reach.