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Patriotism is a form of a social plant. Its roots are more or less deeply grown in the soil of history, enriched by fertilizing tradition. It’s trunk or stem is more or less successfully communicating between the Glorious Past, Proud Present and Bright Future. And it’s obvious manifestations are varied, individually fragile and yet typical like the leaves and flowers in full bloom. There are seasons when it blossoms and the other ones when it sleeps by a deadly winter dream, but in any case the fruit and the seeds as well as the jam and juice of patriotism are produced, sweetened and consumed or strategically distributed, even sold widely, by political leaders of the nation.
The advantage of all old civilizations is that they are too old to be alive, so they are perfected and thus perfect comparing to ours, still enduring one.
The secret of old cultures is not in their understanding and achievements, no matter how unbelievable they might appear to us, but in their quests and questions not answered but somehow passed to our times.
The long history of human struggle for better life, for building peaceful, loving and safe places under the sun can only be measured in timelines by as long and absolutely parallel history of human suffering, loss, pain, war and all kinds of humiliating and dehumanizing destruction.
The initiation of a primitive tribe member is usually an important event in respect of the individual growth which is supported, cherished and monitored by the whole tribe in expectation of the success – promotion of a child into an adult, be it a warrior or a woman. The initiation of individuals in our society (besides mass social birth of generation after generation defined through their birthdates, classes, music, language and fashion as the sub-cultural artifacts) is usually a painful, lonely, often misguided or hidden and by all external views mainly disapproved, even unwanted process of individuation, including self-birth, self-creation and self-actualization.
Ah, the unexpected in life! What more could we expect?
When the task is given and formulated in frames of its requirements and resources it’s easier to accomplish it. The similar way those who have been told how much of their life is left are the ones who know what they are doing in their lives more precisely than the rest, so that proves that there is some joy in ignorance and unexpectedness for all! The question is: Who should be pitied and who is to be estimated fortunate? Those knowledgeable or the ignorant ones?
Good thing about the unexpected is that your intuition always knows but enjoys not telling you until you happen to discover the rest of unexpectedness – it’s expected outcome.
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Zorica Vukovic
Zo belongs to a generation of average middle-aged intellectuals who grew up in a unique environment of the country known as the former Yugoslavia, which shrank in the last decade of the 20th century, divided into a few new states through civil war and finally dissolved into a union of states known as Serbia and Montenegro. She writes from her early youth, neither living of it, nor even living for it, just observing and meditating upon various issues of life and humanity. Her totemistic values are: love, creativity, ethics and the daily improvement of communications and actions on a global level.
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