2023-04-20 03:29:00
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It is not possible for Kiril Petkov, for example, to communicate to Boyko Borisov something like: “Okay, we will let yours steal, but a little at a time.”
The comment was republished by Deutsche Welle. The title is “Diary”.
There are no such phenomena as “semi-educated”, “semi-moral” or “slightly corrupt”. Either you are or you aren’t. Whether you are educated, moral or uncorrupted depends on the overall structure of your spirit. As pregnancy depends on the structural state of the body at the given moment; no “little pregnant”. Either you are or you aren’t.
Being educated, for example, means only trusting reports that you can verify and cross-reference using authoritative and legitimate sources. And then to place the relevant notices in that overall context of orientation in being that can only be achieved through years of effort in a structured educational environment.
Semi-educated people grab the first (and not properly vetted) piece of information they come across and immediately jump to solemn conclusions about the world, the universe, and everything else.
Slavi Trifonov, for example, read an “article on the Internet”… Stop. Where? Is the source legitimate? Has a second one been used? What is the context?
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Let’s continue. The man read and saw that the Ugandans were going to print human tissue in space. The conclusion follows: how far behind we are here, how far ahead they are in Uganda, and how Trifonov himself was right to want to send a Macedonian into space. After all, everyone had made fun of him, but the Ugandans…
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Checking this notice, for a properly trained mind in educational structures, takes about three minutes. And it turns out the following. In November last year, the Ugandans publicly shared their plans to print human tissue in space. The serious media do not pay attention – few miracles are invented by the small countries to make an impression… At the end of December – a month later – Uganda really put a satellite into space to deal with… navigation and meteorology. It is not launched, of course, by the Ugandans themselves. They claim it was made by two of them plus consultants from Japan. We are not talking about human tissues.
And now Trifonov gives us the Ugandans as an example. Why, one wonders, three years ago, the Bulgarian private company Bulsatcom, which even then put its own satellite into space, did not give us an example (in Uganda, however, space is handled by the state)? He does not refer us to this case, as he has not heard of it. And he did not hear, because the educational structure of his consciousness is what we see and hear from him.
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Semi-educated people tend towards populism, because with the two or three things they have learned, they impress the frankly uneducated population, who know that they know nothing. This not only explains the emergence of the party “There is such a people” (ITN), but also offers a possible answer to the question of why so many graduates voted for the Russian-populist political formation of the man nicknamed a small Russian coin. These are classical semi-educated people who are impressed by two or three simple ideas (“Russians – heroes! Europeans – gays! Let’s be like the Russians!”) and think that their application in life will solve all their problems. Similar was the situation with Volen Siderov’s recipe: “The Turks – in Turkey, the Gypsies – on Saturn”. As long as semi-educated individuals with college degrees roam the country, such political programs will be born every 5-6 years.
I came across the topic “a little corrupt” these days while listening to the radio. An unidentified analyst claimed that the compromise between GERB and Continuing the Change – Democratic Bulgaria (PP-DB) should include PP-DB accepting that there will continue to be “minor corruption” associated with GERB.
The question immediately arises: how small is “petty corruption”? To steal a hundred BGN public funds? A thousand? One hundred thousand? A million?
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I remember the beginning of the corruption epidemic. Two decades ago, deputy ministers were happy to steal BGN 5,000. After a year or two they started counting from 10,000 upwards. At the end of the first decade of the 21st century, they rejoiced like children at a stolen million, and one agency head personally boasted to me (in the tone of “you read the thick books, and we will spin some kints”) that he had already stolen 10 million. At the end of Boyko Borissov’s regime, when all the anchors were torn off, people stole hundreds of millions in sacks. If the “Borisov era” had lasted just a year or two, today they would be counting billions, and the economy would be similar to that of Moldova.
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“Petty” corruption? The corrupt never get to the point of “enough, I stop”. Greed has no ceiling because it quickly becomes a way of life – the only one we can think of for the relevant corruptor. Greed only ceases to swell when it meets with insurmountable opposition. Therefore, it is not possible for Kiril Petkov, for example, to communicate to Boyko Borisov something like: “Okay, we will let yours steal, but a little at a time.” Again the question arises: How little? Five thousand each? A million?
But such a discussion is fundamentally impossible, as it would fall into the “semi-moral” category. How would this discussion sound, laid out in this plane? “It’s not good to steal, but if it’s a little – it’s okay”? If a person enters this quagmire, he will inevitably end up with the thesis of the Russian propagandists: “It is not good to kill, but if it is about Ukrainians – it is possible”.
At all, being half-something is not good. You’re either one thing or you’re another. It is good to agree with yourself, otherwise you cause great trouble and are more and more unhappy after each trouble. This “polu” is a curse that has plagued our country since the decades when exactly such half-individuals, wearing caps but babbling about the “dialectical contradictions” of space, then still uninhabited by Ugandans and Macedonians, ruled.
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