Imagine if I write this: the Ada bridge and the renewed Revolution Boulevard are the best things that could happen to Belgrade in this century. Or, according to the upcoming elections: Dragan Đilas is the most successful mayor after Branko Pešić. Or maybe this: Šapić is the best mayor among water polo players and the best water polo player among mayors - which you would probably agree with, but: what if I said that he is the best mayor among mayors and the best water polo player among water polo players? Would there be chaos if I confirmed that the Americans actually landed on the moon (by the way, they did, exactly six times) or that, God forbid, the Earth is round (although the specially gifted know that it is a flat plate carried by four elephants who stand patiently on on the back of a floating turtle). What if I wrote it all down?
Well, I wrote it. God-given claims for an avalanche of reactions that quickly fill the timeline, all the way to the center of the Earth. And let me add: "That's what I really mean!" - even an electronic money counter would not be able to count all the flood of boto-hate. I have a Facebook friend who successfully turns into my distant role model precisely because of his perfected expression of "open source". 🙂 His name is Miroslav Olenjin. He lives in Australia, so he casually looks at everything that happens here, like when you step away from a raster image, and then judge what exactly is on it. Like an aboriginal arrow, it pierces the left atrium with its posts, because it provokes. Nothing tames the curves better than a nice provocation. A couple of his recent pearls (pearls, usually due to ambiguous context, are written with quotation marks, but these are pearls):
"I drink, smoke, eat fatty food, I don't go to the doctor. Cancer. Depleted uranium is to blame.” Then: "700.000 people, or 10% of the population of Serbia, are members of the SNS. What should we talk about next?” Or: "One would rebel, ten would betray him." A hundred just keep silent and wait for things to be resolved in their favor, and they don't lift a finger. A thousand don't care about everything. A million and have no idea what's going on. That's why that one, if he's smart, should pick himself up and go home for chicken soup and cookies." Then: "It's not that they're smart, it's that we're stupid." So this: "In order to respect someone, we must first kill him." And also: "We lost the elections because the opposition was secretly on the side of the government," - shout angrily from people who did not even go out to vote." Then (after that victory in five municipalities): "Another convincing victory for Vučić. My comment: a dumb and simple people firmly in the clutches of professional demagogues - it can continue like this for the next 200 years." On the eve of the New Year: "I don't know why you in Serbia are celebrating the end of 2017? It's just another wasted year for you. What have you achieved this year, what has changed, apart from the fact that there are fewer of you?"
So, Miroslav Olenjin lives in Australia. He moved out a long time ago, so on time. He sorted out his life, he says it's great. He has a lot of followers on Facebook, but most people hate him because he's good there. People hate the good guys. In comments full of exclamation points and ellipsis, they scream, offer their theories, swear and forbid him to comment on Serbia and Serbia, but how can they forbid him? Exclamation points? Those who rage somehow manage to feed themselves on national-patriotism with an admixture of Putin, but their diet lacks an ingredient called knowledge. They don't believe they are full because they are hungry, but they don't know what. Olenjin, I would say, knows: they are hungry for brutally honest information about the world we all live in, but they don't want it. They are hungry for happiness, but they think that it is somewhere out there, always reserved for someone else.
Olenjin lives far away, but it's like he's here. I don't know him, but it's like we've known each other forever. He agrees to a dialogue (where did he get so much time, in capitalism you have to work?), but only with the authors of coherent comments. They calmly pass over those others because there is always someone who will applaud them.
And, yes – I've never seen him use an exclamation point before.
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