2008-06-14 spectacles and sheep
by Vasil KolevThe spectacles in this country are a matter state policy.
First Stanishev orders for DANS to check on CSKA’s finances, etc., then there’s a lot of noise that the European Football Championship is broadcasted by only one cable channel that has 60% coverage ((about which SEM thought about two years after the auction, etc.. Nothing new – seems like by the Constitution all the officials have to be really incompetent and ignorant when it comes to their real job)).
So be it. It would’ve been better if that auction was won by a television with 5% coverage – the fans would’ve gathered in the pus to watch, and the not-so-big-fans would find something else else to do ((even, as impossible it sounds, to read a book)). I have no idea why everyone is zombifying themselves so much – looks like if they don’t have any external stimulator, they’ll start thinking, will see how ugly is the situation and will start drinking or just feeling unhappy…
(in Rome it was “bread and spectacles”, here it’s “alcohol and spectacles”)
Even the biggest part of the young generation ((e.g. the ones that are ’89)) is going in that direction. In the last issue of Capital there’s something about the teenagers, how smart and enlightened they are, etc., but I hae the feeling that they looked for such ones like Diogenes, with a lantern. If they had gone once in the subway between NDK and Lozenetz, near “Double Vision” and “Amor” ((known better as “Double Teen” and “Abort”)), to see what the situation looks like. It’s also visible from the results of the matriculations – most of them don’t want to write any text and to show their own thoughts (and can do the test), and there are still a lot of doubts about external help.
So, most people can be admitted without an exam in the club “Sheep thought”.
To be honest – I know a lot of people from all ages with their own head that think, study, work, etc., but I have this nagging feeling that their numbers are declining. The are not a lot of people that you can discuss a book with, that you can get drunk with and discuss all kinds of scientific topics ((once for 4 hours me and chervarium managed to go through physics, biology, genetics, history, mathematics and I-can’t-remember-what-else)) and that you can communicate with without the feeling that the other side is stupider ((and more meaningless)) than the dead plant in the corner of the room…
There’s just this question left – is it worthy to do anything to encourage more real individuals, thinking people? Is it worthy to give them any chance, or it’s up to everyone to fight to be an individual (as one wonderful person insists, one that has done this totally by herself) – should I think about that, or just the herd has to be left to kill itself and vegetate and to be interested just in the ones that fall off/struggle away from it?