Although many things in our lives depend on political decisions, the behavior of political leaders, their morality and visionary ability, the dramas related to life and death, parenting, raising children, the risks facing young people and all these questions raised by this very complicated and, in my opinion, very mystified affair around "Petrokhan".
The "Petrokhan "Twin Peaks" is a pretty good name, in my opinion. All of this is far more fundamental. Huge questions are at stake here, related to the basic functioning of people as families and as individuals. It is quite natural that this caused more concern.
This was said by social anthropologist Haralan Alexandrov in the program "Metronome" on Radio FOCUS.
And he adds: "Furthermore, we are quite tired and quite exhausted from political intrigues and finally a huge part of the people realize that we are structurally placed in a situation in which very little depends on politics at the national level. Every day we realize with a growing sense of hopelessness how little depends on states in an integrated and globalized world and to what an enormous extent the decision-making has shifted somewhat unnoticed to other centers of power, mostly connected to the global corporate elites, who obviously have a new version of what the world order will look like, of course, so that it suits them".
According to him, this is the big problem of the modern world - the structural tension and contradictions between democracy and globalization.
"This is the world we live in. It is very dark, very, very scary and its Bulgarian projection, to return to your question, is probably related to this drama in "Petrokhan", at least that is what people see. Now this is a very dangerous line of interpretation, I have to say, because the facts are that we have victims, we have three strange people who lived in the forest, who we find murdered in an obviously brutal way. Everything that begins to unravel, they will be the first to understand what it is and how it happened, why and what they are. Of course, I hope that the perpetrators will be revealed, but that is currently in the realm of conjecture. In this space of ambiguity, fantasies, conspiracies and anxieties have developed. And I fear that on these poor people, who God knows what they were doing there and why they were armed to the teeth and fenced off part of the mountain, "commented the social anthropologist.
And he added: "This in itself is obviously scandalous and unacceptable and I hope that those who allowed it will be held accountable. But anyway, these people, despite their political protection, despite the special status of a quasi-state that was given to them, or they appropriated in the best 90s scoundrel traditions, by the way, because that's exactly how the world functioned then, someone who is more brutal and more armed would seize part of the territory and start to rule over it".
"So, anyway, these people are dead. That's what should worry us. However, it turns out that the concerns that are in society are so much deeper, more fundamental, as I said, related to key questions about whether we are competent as parents, whether we are able to protect children and young people, that they are immediately projected or attached to this criminal case. And this particular mixture of fantasy, conjecture, and incompletely established facts is obtained, which is the ideal soil and breeding ground for paranoid and conspiracy theories. And in the best traditions of David Lynch, because he is the author of Twin Peaks and not only, many other films, which together show exactly this, how under the surface of the thin layer of apparent normality lies horror, madness, and a deeply irrational and violent world.
According to him, what can be said is that the main concern of parents is that they are not able to communicate fully with their children and cannot understand their world.
"Something very different is happening. It is happening in coded social media. Young people from these generations are closing themselves in their groups, they begin to produce, to transfer key processes related to socialization, to competition, to affirmation in the world. There are processes happening that are very worrying, related to virtual violence, for example. And we learn all this through the symptoms of trauma. More and more children of this generation are starting to show traumatic symptoms and suddenly adults are starting to ask themselves what happened, where it happened and how".
Alexandrov believes that this is a global process, not just in Bulgaria.