“It would be very wrong to throw these people in one bag, it is more necessary to understand the unifying motives. One of the common ones was definitely frustration, which had different roots, “Buchtík thinks. According to him, we tend to condemn those whom we do not understand or do not believe, who have a different opinion, and then, as people, we translate this opinion into the most extreme theoretical behavior, for which we then further condemn.
“There were really people who lost their jobs or their business goes bankrupt and they feel they have no way of expressing their opinion. When we think about it, we can figure out the cause and at the same time give them a helping hand. If there is no dialogue in society, we will wage a trench warfare and that would be a tragedy in this situation, “describes the sociologist.
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According to Buchtík, there is always a certain group of people in a democratic society who will express their opinion radically and thus attract media interest. Dividing lines are natural in society. “I don’t think the truth is always in the middle, at the moment it certainly won’t hurt if a person who is worried about their loved ones stays at home,” explains the sociologist.
Society is not in big conflict now
According to him, the group of people who explicitly reject measures against coronavirus is small. “They may be hundreds of thousands of people, but they are still units of a percentage of the adult population,” Buchtík thinks. However, according to him, the problems in society did not arise with coronavirus, they have been here for a long time and they are deepening. “If a company decides to solve them at all, it can take quite two generations,” he comments.
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If the impoverishment of the population after the crisis led to the onset of authoritarianism, it would not be as in the 20th century. “Those tendencies will definitely be here, we will see how successful they will be. In the Czech Republic, unlike other countries in the world and in Europe, they have not taken root yet, I do not anticipate a big increase in strong government,” Buchtík predicts. However, according to him, populism will focus on the here and now and thus prevent a quality life for future generations.
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