Remember, remember the fifth of November

Day 1,446, 03:57 • Published in Serbia Serbia • by dr.doom



Imam malo problema kako da započnem ovaj tekst jer sam već napisao i izbrisao nekoliko rečenica. Elem, to je valjda zato što ovaj članak i nema nekog smisla, jednostavno je gomila slabo povezanih citata koji imaju malo veze sa ovim što se dešava ovde.

Danas je peti novembar, pa mi je tako pao naslov na pamet. Danas, neki proslavljaju neuspešan pokušaj Gaja Foksa (Guy Fawkes) da digne u vazduh gornji dom britanskog parlamenta (House of Lords) 5. novembra 1605. godine. Ostalo je to sećanje i pesmica koja počinje: “Remember, rememeber the fifth of November, Gunpowder Treason and Plot”. Toliko o naslovu.

Ostatak teksta predstavlja nekoliko citata iz Orvelove “1984-e”.

Naslov i citati me neodoljivo podsećaju na politku eSrbije. Zato su i ovde, baš na ovaj peti novembar. Indžoj or not.



"The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently.

We are different from all the oligarchies of the past, in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives.

They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal.

We are not like that.

We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a mean; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

The object of persecution is persecution.

The object of torture is torture.

The object of power is power."




Underneath the spreading chestnut tree, I sold you and you sold me.