Zdenek Svěrak’s military broadcast. Zbořil adds a pithy proverb

Doctor, November 17th is behind us. However, a bit of it happened in the StarDance program, where Zdeněk Svěrák, as a representative of the Paraple Foundation, called the upcoming elections a “catastrophe”. Is it a happy expression?

I think it is a slightly edited sentence, because Mr. Svěrák knows a lot about the political system before 1989 and he knows, as one of those who started around the army broadcasting Polní pošta even before 1968, how to navigate between the ambiguities. that can be dangerous.

If it was possible to deal with Vinárna u Pavouk, the old HSTD and later its descendant (we know it from the adaptation film Uncertain Season), why could it not be managed in relation to Foltýnov Street com.

Or even to deliver a subliminal message to innocent public opinion, which we know is not only mostly public, or even opinion. Vice’s high school pranks are popular, but often ineffective. His appearance with Věra Čáslavská and the president of ČAV Illnerová for the presidential bid of Karel Schwarzenberg and years later with an equally ineffective event in the company of Daniela Drábová in support of another academic, Drahoš, the look a little scary, but the echo in Czech politics can still be heard a little.

Svěrák’s sentence, which is recited for a short period of time, even often today, is remarkable though. The author says it in a way that we don’t know what the disaster will be. Is it the election victory of ANO in 2011, imagined by the unstable president Andrej Babiš, or the victory of the tired ODS with Petr Fiala and his friends from Řeporyjí, or even a revived coalition of five people, including the wild pirates, who want to be accepted into someone?

It seems to me that one could add Svěrák’s words borrowed from Karel Poláček: I don’t say this or that, but my words come true.

K but I will be back on November 17th. “In every country, the capital is naturally a magnet for smarter, more active and more independent people from the whole country. Národní trída on 17 November is not a symbol of the Czech Republic. It’s just his best face, which, of course, is hated by a significant part of non-Prague residents with the same passion as the evil queen Snow White,” wrote Alexandr Mitrofanov, reporter for Prava. What do you think?

I am not sure if Mr. Mitrofanov is wrong. Among the candle bearers, I saw those who wanted to honor the memory of Martin Šmíd alias Zifčák, or those to whom the names Zifčák or Šmíd mean nothing. I don’t know how he managed to guess it a good partbut I know one restaurant in Sušice in Šumava, where the best faces, like those that Mr. Mitrofanov dreams about, sit on the other hand.

But it is also true that those who hate queens and Snow Whites are sitting in the restaurant next door. But how are they to be counted when our elections are so suspect of crime at home and abroad? So that even our Mr. President has to travel to Australia and New Zealand to make sure they like his pile of puzzles over there.

We always hear that democracy is in danger in Slovakia, because such a presenter had to leave television, the Minister of Culture said such and such, and the government politician is not charged . Is the term “threat to democracy” misused?

Recently, a Czech American who has lived in the United States for thirty-seven years appeared on Mrs. Jílkova’s program You have the word. He surprised everyone by saying that the United States was not a democracy, but a republic. That is, the United States is a community that arises and survives for some reason. As tools to achieve such a goal, he uses different types of governments such as aristocracy, monarchy, and also democracy, which is direct or indirect, but which is in danger of becoming a tyranny. Therefore, it is important to study the tools and methods in which the government of the people, by the people and for the people, as proposed by Abraham Lincoln, can be implemented. It is not easy, we also know from our environment, where one of his statesmen even wanted a revolution – but a change of heads and hearts.

Perhaps some of our politicians could add to their knowledge of Czech and Czech-Slovak politics and pay attention to the materials of the Petitions Committee We Stay (PVVZ). Even today, one could copy them and note how many wonderful people gave their lives for this program. Today, it seems that it will no longer be needed, but who knows!

The show AZ-quiz has been running on Czech TV for almost thirty years. Now the competitor had to answer what “desert” is. And the correct answer, according to the results of the show: “This ignorance refers to a lazy person who rejects social authority and leads to conspiracy theories and political extremism.

The explanation from the AZ quiz is not correct. But, among other things, also because the messages in CT want to be short, understandable and attractive. Therefore, it can be expected that there are expressions, interjections in them, and their value lies in the urgency and the need to disrespect someone. Let’s translate all those words you put into Czech and we’ll find out that they are losers, usually living on the fringes of society, etc. It depends on which language we borrow from the word, and then we can transfer the meanings almost arbitrarily.

If we are determined to use these words to suppress the human being, it is certainly regrettable, but it is not special. After all, we know that there are Czechs in Slovakia and Čobolas in Bohemia, and even educated people, parliamentarians and public speakers do not hesitate to use these words. Perhaps we have neglected what is called and should be called unholy, immorality, which are words that received insulting words by corruption from Latin.

It is also difficult to use conspiracy theories or conspiracies as an excuse when Jan Schneider puts the practice of conspiracy in a situation, or when someone tries to explain political extremism, which is so popular with his ‘Prime Minister, what is a political centrist.

We can say that these are words that harm the Czech language and the legacy of FL Vek, but we no longer live in the age of poets, today with mockery of the majority, but of those party skyrs, predictors and testers… And God forbid there are some. a high school boy or girl returning from the brigade in English-speaking countries. Then one thinks that meeting the Czech polishers is completely inconsequential, futile.

Who is the “social authority”? Is it Mr Svěrák or who?

It is true that the theater played an almost irreplaceable role in Czech history. But even Zdenek Svěrák’s popularity does not make him a social authority, especially when his reputation is flawed. Authority is not only power and respect, but also respect and recognition. But it is interesting how it is born, grows and disappears, even if the person or impersonal concerned does not know about it. For some, muscles are enough, for someone a speech impediment, for someone there is something special.

A good example of athletes who like to be thrown into the dust is the neglect. People who get special media attention, like the Zdenek Svěrak you remember, find it very difficult. An English proverb says – don’t climb a high tree, it will show your ass. Although it is not eloquently and elegantly decorated, it is correct. The history of all the cultures and civilizations of the world is filled with those who have been or know it.

The Russians sent a ballistic missile to Ukraine. Basically headless, it seems. As such a warning in the “see what we can do” sense. West doesn’t seem too excited about it. Should we really take seriously Russian statements that we are already a direct partner in the conflict in Ukraine?

I’m not sure about this whole thing. How to read it and how to understand it. There has just been a report somewhere that French and British representatives have discussed or discussed how to deal with this issue from a military strategy perspective. I also don’t think there are as many experts in the world as there are here at home on all kinds of lists and news. Czech stupidity is more infinite than anywhere else in the world. Just a few weeks ago, we wrote to each other about how Russian soldiers steal chips from refrigerators in Ukrainian landfills and how Koreans have been dying of hunger in the DPRK for several decades. Suddenly, those rockets that we told ourselves were only for marching in the Red Square in Moscow were able to fly around the world at eleven o’clock. And first there are a thousand Koreans on the borders of Russia and Ukraine, then two thousand, now maybe ten thousand. Former colleague Vladimír Votápek fell silent at this time, President Pavel flew to the South Pacific for two weeks, and his friend is working next to him.

I don’t know what message Mr. , beautifully translated into Czech by Oldřich Kral. We would learn from him, among other things, that underestimating the enemy is one of the reasons for losing a war.

I don’t know if we should pay attention to the statements of even the highest military authorities in the Russian Federation today, but we could prepare for the truth if things turn out well and let’s get invited to a smaller negotiating table, we should. know the answer to this question too. Mr. MFA Lipavský has already returned from his short visit to Ukraine, where he spoke with President Zelensky for fifteen minutes. You don’t want to believe it, but even that moment tells something. Maybe it was about our future.