/ world today news/ Whoever stays in Bulgarian politics for a long time, at some point starts to dehumanize himself.
This is not a sudden act, but a continuous process, with different speeds for different individuals.
Many don’t even notice what’s happening to them – and if they do notice it, they take it for some mild malaise, a manifestation of a pesky summer flu, nothing more.
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Dehumanization is contagious, as incredible as it may seem to us.
And finally, today’s heroes are always based on Lukanov, rather, on one of his phrases, recently recalled by Jean Videnov.
Once Lukanov said to him: “Why are you angry about people?”
What a phrase! – only an eerily fine mind could have composed it.
However, if we tame our indignation at its author, we will realize that it was professed by many rulers throughout the years of the Transition.
It is transmitted as some kind of sacred sign that must be followed unwaveringly, only then can you feel like a Baptized in Power.
It’s like that to this day.
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Here, one Tsvetanov, for example – the strong man of GERB,
Our Hidalgo’s squire, who, however, is increasingly seen as his Mentor.
He certainly has nothing in common with Lukanov – in origin, culture and experience, but he is also infected by that demonic phrase.
These days, he said in a rosy interview that with four percent economic growth, it is ridiculous to ask for early elections, to ask for change.
This statement is a clear sign of dehumanization.
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If someone, a not so fat reporter, asked Tsvetanov what the growth in question has to do with the impoverishment of the people, Tsvetanov would experience serious verbal difficulties, far greater than usual.
Because that way they will make him think about the electorate and as a People. Something that doesn’t happen to him often – he’s so obsessed with growth percentages.
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And the mystery is how he also catches the contagion of Lukanov’s disgusting attitude towards people.
How he and everyone else get infected – to the point that for a long time no one talks about the People, they don’t even notice it.
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That day, Boyko suggested that he noticed something from the “people’s” life.
Shortly before he fell from power, Zhivkov had said that cafes during working hours were full of idlers.
Now Boyko – in a meeting with the business – said that he passed by “Vitosha” Boulevard and noticed the same thing.
“What does that mean?” he asked and laughed.
“Business” indulgently also laughed, as befits this fact of the people’s welfare.
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This is how they enjoy themselves – powerless before the poison of the Lucan phrase.
Vitosha coffee drinking is booming, so everything is fine with us.
Only a completely anesthetized population can calmly accept such verbal banter, which is, in fact, an expression of political dehumanization.
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It’s a miracle how our politicians manage Bulgaria without even having an idea of the hardships of its population – they have no idea and are happy.
Televisions occasionally disturb this marshy peace.
For example, they show us a “farmer” who seems to be still walking in the 19th century and inform us that our farmers are the poorest in the European Union. And that’s it.
But why, what is the reason for this failure – this answer is beyond the interest of television.
The important answers are still not reaching them.
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And they are not concerned with the People, and they are struck by Lukanov’s antipathy.
They take comfort in having rubrics about “Goodness”—how it exists, even how it triumphs.
Fantasists naive.
It never wins, Evil always prevails, it is invincible and so it will be.
If they had an ounce of courage and half an ounce of freedom, they should have opened the column
“2017 year. Bulgaria. The Great Dehumanization” –
and every God’s day to peer into some dark corner of the total poverty and backwardness that rules over a huge part of the country.
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We are told about “economic growth” – when a woman cried in front of the closed (for a few days) hospital in Pomorie: “Well, then we should just die!”
She tells you that you abandoned her – you talk about growth.
Where do you dream of this growth – outside your accounting books – and see at last.
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The people have long since fallen out of the agenda of our politicians.
They will continue to run along “Vitosha”, but they will not have the courage to go to the hospital in Pomorie, for example.
The prolonged wail of that abandoned woman will not reach their ears at all – even if they see her on television, they will not pay attention to her, their hearts have long been turned.
Their hearts are left without memory.
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I never imagined that the facade of “progress” would so obsess these people that Count Potemkin’s murafettes would appeal to them so much.
The count’s displays of false prosperity are long gone.
She made decorations with beautiful but false pictures of the life of the Russian serfs, and we make stadiums for millions of levs in deserted villages, sparsely inhabited by our serfs – fixed, it seems, forever in their misery.
And, in fact, whose “prisoners” are the hundreds of thousands of pensioners, heartlessly reduced to barbaric misery.
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Lukanov expressed his dislike in his phrase “Why do you get angry at people”.
Everyone after him gradually ceased not only to be angry, but also to notice the “people” at all.
And, instead, they leave examples of their own dehumanization.
Former president Petar Stoyanov once said: “A 15-cent sotzkebap can’t be more expensive to us than freedom.”
The nastiness emanating from these words is not even worth commenting on.
It is clear that our “toppers” are masters at producing nonsense.
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These words are deeply insulting to the People, a large part of whom only got the freedom to be immeasurably impoverished.
Two million ran away from you – and you keep banging on about “freedom”.
At least admit that you failed, all individually and all together.
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Try to find one word about the People.
Tell him you can’t handle it – but you love him.
Although, having a bad guy love you is not very lucky.
/from “Weekend”, with abbreviations/
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