Bulgarian politicians are known to see no further than their pockets. You must be a complete fool to expect from them any dim insight, especially of the coming Time. The truth has long since given up dealing with them, it's like having heart-to-heart conversations with some chipped granite pave – tuned several times before Parliament by one-handed craftsmen.
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And Life brings facts to their eyes, from which even the most hard-hearted politician would be startled - and would even spin a fake theater for the audience. Because very often in politics and lumbering pretenses bring dividends. But our heroes gave up even that, it is quite enough for them to maintain their power until the next early elections.
Here everything is already in this mode – everything is “ahead of schedule”, that is – unmade, crippled.
Or everything is “ahead of schedule”, tied to some deadline – and that's why no one pays attention to it, it doesn't matter at all.
Our flag is the Pocket, that's all.
It is not said that way, but it is implied: the State is already “earlier”, except that it is not clear when exactly the fuse will be lit.
And the Future – even that! – has been whispering to them for years that the State will not survive for long in this regime of “early deadline”.
These days a survey of “Trend“ presents this conclusion to them on a platter.
But even six years ago we were told that 44 percent of Bulgarian children are in the “survival zone” – and this happened not anywhere, but during the Parliamentary Control on March 5, 2018.
Now “Trend“ confirms and even expands the horizon of livestock for Bulgarian children.
According to the research center in question, “45 percent of Bulgarian youth aged 15 to 29 are worried about financial problems in the future, and 23 percent about career failures”. 20 percent of young Bulgarians fear the “lack of stable personal relationships”. 37 percent of them were – or are – alcohol dependent, 15 percent – from gambling.
There is no need to deceive ourselves, from now on it is clear: there will be no mercy for these young people, they are already destined to be sufferers, they are our doomed.
And no one will take credit for it.
These are the generations of the abandoned. Their chance of getting out of this hole is equal to the chance of that farmer who found his “Rolex“ a full 50 years after he was swallowed by a cow.
It seems incredible, but, after all, the digestive traffic of cows also obeys some rules. Something that does not exist at all in the generations left behind – there are no rules with them.
If we're being honest, we'll admit that they have no way out of their abandoned status – they are already forgotten by the Future.
Again, about six years ago, the American Embassy in Sofia organized a loud campaign called “The Power is in You”. Even then it was clear that she would not have any success – I even took the liberty of writing that it would be more far-sighted to make a campaign entitled “The sin is against you“.
But even then, and even more so now, no one engages in campaigns about the sins of our rulers, it seems we have to accept that they are inevitable and irreparable, there is no point in wasting our time on them.
The Americans simply proved once again that they are not able to understand our Bulgarian works. Their first campaign, with which they probably had to check the mood here, was called “They will change Bulgaria”. Behind the famous “They” they were obviously referring to the young Bulgarians, which was downright comical, if one is aware of the extent to which they are disinterested in politics.
„They“ they didn't change anything – and they were not able to change at all, it did not even cross their minds. Getting a degree from an American university or going to a summer student brigade in the US – this does not automatically make you a seeker of “change” a rebel, in some semblance of a “revolutionary“.
The authors of the campaign were not even aware that the battle of the generations had not taken place in our country at all, the young avoided thinking seriously about the reason for the failure of the “fathers project” – and how it measures up to the endless failures of the Transition.
They had left it to a select few to figure this out for them – they, on the other hand, were designated as “Americanophiles”, despite their blood-red origins. As many times as the half-breeds in question discussed “Change”, so many times it cheapened, insulted and downright humiliated the “Western” values.
Thus, the anonymous “They“, who were supposed to change Bulgaria, ingloriously dropped out of the accounts. For some time, the audience was teased that “The Force” is in someone – though they never again said they meant “the young“.
And finally they organized the disembarkation of the Kirch squad, which would commissarize Bulgarian politics to the extreme – and straight up collapse it.
The Godfathers got tired of waiting for the young Bulgarians to grow up to the required degree, and they realized that the intrigues in the local Political Sect could lead them to the desired goal faster.
The operation turned out to be successful - and now they can even claim that even six years ago they were aware of who would make the “change” – as long as there is someone to believe them.
And the consolation of the Bulgarian seirdzhi is that people like the people of Kirchov cannot be trusted for anything, the Godfathers have already convinced themselves of this.
And the “young“ who were supposed to change Bulgaria and in whom the power was supposed to lie? They will continue to fear the coming Time, they will increasingly feel alienated and helpless – today it is close to 50 percent, tomorrow it will be even more.
They will also have to live through the era in which more and more doors will be slammed in front of them, a Europe of “open doors” is now a mirage.
This will also happen to America – and if it does not happen, we will witness another Civil War. Over 47 million immigrants live in the US, apart from them there are also 11 million illegal immigrants, they will want more and more rights.
In “Django Unbound“ Tarantino's has an ominous line addressed to Django by another Negro, Samuel Jackson's character: “The whites will always be outnumbered,”, roughly to that effect. But that doesn't solve anything anymore.
There will be a crash of slamming – but also from broken doors.
At the time when I presented in the column “Open Doors“ on “Every Sunday”, the great Giacometti, for example, I told myself that we were doing a useful deed. Very often I got films directly from the French, German or Japanese embassies, because the official TV video exchange was very limited. I think I still keep “The Eyes of Jacqueline” – a short film about Picasso.
The censors grumbled, but not particularly bitterly.
So, little by little, fresh air entered the TV jungle.
And of what use is it, who knows about Giacometti today?
The future approaches us cautiously, even that is not certain - because of our eternal indiscretion and indecisiveness.
Less than a month before the next election, no word is spoken about the young Bulgarians – they don't seem to exist for our politicians.
They've written them off.
Thus, in fact, they also write off the Future.
They will not be forgiven for this – at least, because all the disgrace of the Present was always justified by the anticipated alms of the Future.
October 1, 2024