Two days of pomp and insincerity are beginning. There will be many beautifully written words that will last two days, generously adorned with likes, but in fact will remain just another obligatory set of speeches, statements, and publications for the occasion.
The first signs are the saccharine praises for the signing of the National Pantheon law. People like it. Well, okay, believing in a quarterly-patriotic variety of Potemkin villages is also a choice. If the descendants are lucky, the current government won’t manage to push what’s written on paper, and the next one (if sensible) will correct the absurdity. But it’s not certain that luck will be on our side.
We are generally selectively lucky. 35 years of modern statehood – the challenges of war, political storms in the world, at home – rats on the throne… It seems we are lucky – we still exist, and that’s quite an achievement. However, at the same time, we do not mature…
The Zelensky era did not develop antibodies against the virus of “new faces.”
Another corruption case and new examples of governmental incompetence did not lead to the categorical demand for QUALITY and COMPETENCE.
It would seem that it should make us think – why do we keep going around in circles? What are we constantly doing wrong? Where and how are we being deceived, so that year after year we keep hitting the wall? But thinking is necessary for that, and that’s not about us. Therefore, sociologists ask about trust in surnames, juggling with Fedorov, Budanov, Zaluzhny, and another handful of names. And Ukrainians talk about trust. But what is this trust based on?
The degradation of institutions and the political field did not push society towards creating better quality.
We always complain that Ukrainian politics has degraded to personal projects, but each time we ourselves form a new ephemerality around the next name. And when asked: “Why is there a name in the center again, why don’t people look for like-minded individuals with similar worldview principles?” There is silence in response.
If only instead of the futile chanting of “elections/no elections,” we would sit down and think – what ideology do the people, whose trust we are asked about, have? Will they achieve their goals using the tools of social democrats, liberals, greens, conservatives, national socialists? What worldview do the citizens prefer? Can these citizens explain their own worldview to unite with like-minded people? Are these citizens ready to participate in supporting the political party that shares their worldview? How – volunteering in the party’s interests, donations for the maintenance of the party and its projects, contributions to the election campaign? Not ready? Then politics will continue to be centered around names and unknown funding. And that means we will again be disappointed in the next myth of the next “new” or mythical “technocrats.”
At the zero point, when it’s unknown when the elections will be, it would be the right time to look for answers to such questions; it would be preparatory work. It would be a constructive outburst of emotion. It wouldn’t harm unity because it would start to be explored – around common ideological ideas. And in the process, people who share them would be found.
But no. We will be satisfied with appearances. Most won’t even try and will again call August 24th – “Independence Day,” even though it is actually the day of RESTORATION of Independence.
One word that fundamentally changes everything in the date. But this is also a question worth thinking about. Why bother when we’ve been satisfied with the replacement of concepts and phenomena for 35 years?
Little photo. Heart. Blue sky. Yellow sunflowers.
