Islam is a religion of peace, do not be afraid of him. Multiculturalism enriches nations. The invisible hand of capitalism can handle any problem that brings the economy. You have to privatize everything. The state is unnecessary, its role should be reduced to the administrator, who guards the water temperature at the tap and implementing EU directives. These are just a few of wisdom – those without a “but” – which was coined many years ago, but have failed in the face of reality. However, there are still repeated like truth revealed. Some 27 years.
changed world geopolitics, economics, everything. We have completed the international financial crisis, which still did not fully healed. We – here and now – the bombs exploding on Europe’s streets, waves of refugees storming safe enclave world. Brexit became a reality. Russia after devouring a piece of land “near abroad.” Turkey is znarowiła, alliances are hanging in the balance. In North America, they place political tectonic shock – do not know what can cause damage. And even China. This is history. We live on a dog charm, in interesting times. In a new opening, even when each option is actually possible. And what we talk about? What determines our public debate? Of course, the game of thrones “Made in Poland”, which is the dispute over the Constitutional Court, which reached the point of absurdity. 500+ bizarre argument about why this program is so bad.
People from this mixed heads. They stopped using brains, passed on the position of the faithful individual churches outlooks. And on their behalf they are throwing at each other’s throats. Politicians do hypocritically worried faces, squealing in a spirit of joy. But it is not strange for hundreds of years, this policy is governed by the principle of divide and conquer. Collect swords that have power. This is not surprising. But puzzling is that the elite (although this term has recently become a insult, but I use it in the old, positive sense) – intellectual, artistic and political – which, it would seem, should go in the vanguard of change, entrenched in his fortress too long outworn. They defend the world of ideas and thoughts, which no longer exists. It is not defense of Czestochowa, but – please forgive zgrubność comparison – petty intellectual. Defense of the old world and the values of the past. And to protect your assets.
What it should be
Any intelligent, even if they dug through the volumes of sociological works, intuitively understands what means this term: people for some reason are the highest in the social hierarchy. Can be – depending on the agent, which causes the elevation, divided elite group. Some found themselves at the top due to the extraordinary ability and wisdom, others because of business sense and accumulated fortunes etc. But I was most convincing division introduced by the Polish philosopher and lawyer Czeslaw Znamierowskiego, which – depending on their relationship to the rest of society – extracts parasitic elite who care only about themselves, and knights – that lies at the heart of the good of other people and the state. Yes, I already see the smiles on the faces of the readers …
Dr. Andrew Garapich, until recently president of the company’s Polish Internet Research, now deputy director. Marketing business in TVP, commented, telling two anecdotes. Once in palestra lawyer was the custom, uncodified, that some of the issues led for free. Simply defended the poor people in a good cause. Today, when asked about this young lawyers make big eyes: no like it? OK, there are exceptions, but really extremely rare. The second story tells of Garapichu cousin great-grandfather Paul, who in the years 1924-1927 was the provincial governor Lviv. – For property, where he lived, he passed the railway line, but it was near the station. The family insisted so much that whispered word who need and want this station was established – says Andrzej Garapich. But grandfather had another problem: what to do, lest no one came up with the idea of making even stop there. Because not considered.
Very archaic, as in our times, the concept, is not it? Slightly ridiculous in a world ruled by cash and knowledge, and nepotism is a virtue, not a sin. As it is, in principle, do not need to dwell on, let’s punch line of this lament on the fall of the rules and customs will be the third anecdote: the test lasts for an advocate, even oral, committee members ask questions. Another falls from the mouth of a man who previously spoke. A trainee said: Dad, get up and do not be silly …
The word “elite” is spauperyzowało, and people who aspire to that name, forgot about the duties, that others would the right to expect from them. That same money to get a position, grabbed the power is not enough. It remains to understand why it should be used. If you do not have this awareness subservient role, obligations to the rest, is a hub, a parasitic on society. Not the elite. And one more important thing: the elite should be characterized by decent, comprehensive education. Curiosity, wonder to him, questioning the easy explanation, look for the best solutions. Arguing – substantive. Pelting mutual mud does not fall within this definition. Accusing with evil intentions to anyone who dares to think otherwise – also is not.
Why so?
Answers to the question about the reasons for the shallowness of our elites is a few, and all true. You can reach the dramatic history: Katyn, the Warsaw Uprising, the Communists, who completed the job after the Hitlerites, eliminating the remnants of the old elite and promoting the rapid social advancement. Was dug them into the heads of the benefits flowing from jednomyślenia: who is not with us, marches against us, so you might want to adjust. – In a way, this legacy of communism, which does not premiował discourse continues. In the new reality moved postmarksowskie thinking: it can be only one right way, and those who would have some other idea, it’s not partners, but enemies – derived from Dr. Garapich. A Krzysztof Księżopolski of the Center of Political Analysis University, adds that in such a devious way for a democratic, capitalist Polish A.D. 2016 was transferred Leninist class struggle. No, but he has since – taking as a turning point in 1989. – Passed 27 years, six more than last the life of the Second Republic, which – although it would critically evaluate -wykształciła its elite.
However, after the political transformation counted mainly business. For this we focused on. It is hardly surprising, because the shirt will always be closer to the body. As a result, we have a strong competitive economy, we live at a decent level, and we can develop. But in the field of intellectual and scientific, little has changed. Elite took over from the previous regime, along with all their luggage. No one besides them not interested, were left to fend for themselves, peacefully swimming in sauce old ties, customs, systems. Yes, there were some new faces and names, people who have studied or scholarships in the West, who have become guides to the new reality, indeed, the saviors of the nation. That’s what they said, it was undisputed and sacred. So skisło environment, without whom compete without having to specifically try. He believed in his own infallibility. And who dared to question, is, at best, a madman. Balcerowicz Plan – there is no other way. Politics of Thatcherism and the way Reagan showed us the direction. Let’s move on. Privatization everything we can – just so you can build a free market. And his invisible hand will do all our problems. Let us follow the world. In the European Community all want the common good. No matter are nation-states, the future of the Union. And even though today we know that is not the end, you could go the transformation process a little less painful, not losing, not pushing to the margins of entire social groups that the invisible hand did not prevent him, but caused the global economic crisis, nationalisms are a reality in the EU they are more equal than others, and the wild privatization, although it led to the creation of many fortunes are – globally speaking – has weakened the potential of our country … and so on. So why do we keep hearing the same message, in which we could from a lack of knowledge and experience to believe years ago, but not now?
– This is a situation well known to the business: the company founder should it at some point leave. Leave. Because otherwise it will work to its detriment, I know from a thousand such examples – says Cezary Kazmierczak, president of the Association of Entrepreneurs and Employers. A businessman thinking: if I did something, something I made using the method A, B and C, and it worked, it needs to work on. Meanwhile, the world has changed, the old methods are now ineffective, but he does not see. And to him a hundred people said that was wrong, it will go on with his. And the more his views on business will rozmijały reality, the more it will defend them. Zapętlał up. Zacietrzewiał.
If it works in business, it is even more strongly in politics, which involved extra excitement. Even those related to ideology and identity. Because even if they prevail against you to see the benefits of trade via the Internet (although we did not like the news), the world related to the values and ideology, we have a problem. A big problem.
Defense Bay of Pigs
Irving Janis, an American psychologist from Yale, analyzing the failure of US foreign policy, coined the theory of the “syndrome of groupthink “also known as the Bay of Pigs defense. According to her, people who well know, have above-average IQ, are decision makers, believing in yourself, your infallibility and ethics, confined in their conference rooms – shelters – and are nieprzemakalni to information from the outside. Especially if they are unsuccessful. Especially if their source is someone outside their team. I wind up each other in their beliefs. And if someone is trying to break, he is punished, subjected to pressure, which forces conformism. Runs self-censorship. As a result, members of that group will die (well, not literally) than admit error. Sink their ships, hundreds of soldiers will be killed just to save face. I continue to feel comfortable in his role of contemporary demiurges. They digging in a fortress, raising trenches dogma. Therefore, any problem that could as easily be solved using common sense, considering from the point of view of their ideology. She tells them to interpret phenomena dictates mental shortcuts allow simple explanation for complex problems.
This is, as explained by Professor. Norbert Maliszewski, specialist. Political marketing, social psychologist from the University of Warsaw, compass allows for getting oriented in fluktuującym world, embracing it, generating a simplified prescriptions. Maliszewski gives an example: when Bronislaw Komorowski lost Andrzej Duda in the race for the presidency, there was an explanation of why this happened: because job security rebelled. – Although it had nothing to do with reality in liberal environments such transfer liked – he says. The fact that young people some time veered to the right, that talked about numerous studies showing fatigue and irritability youth situation in which they had to enter adult life, annoy the lack of empathy for their situation on the part of the ruling circles of liberal, it it was invalid. – All easier to use simplifications, intuition and hunches than hard data. Also, and perhaps above all, in the public debate. Each case, each project is passed through a prism of ideology – which calms, assures the sense of having the most rational reason.
Well still be simple, catchy slogan: “Down with communism” “J … e PZPN,” “Who does not jump with us, the traitor.” Every problem, every project can be passed through a sieve emotional. Take the flagship idea of the current leadership team, which is 500+. According to his critics he is bad, because it is bad. Because smash budget, because people will spend money on vodka, because it is too conservative or too left-wing. With the recent CSO data, it can be concluded that the money thrown at families with children translated into a recovery in several industries. Increased buying food, clothes, furniture. Alcohol consumption has not increased. But the narrative is still the same. – Persons commenting public life are not prepared to discuss – says Maliszewski. Because who was doing research on the public perception of the program 500+? Or a substantive analysis of its impact on the economy? No one. It is unnecessary in an age when instead of a thorough public debate is ruled infotainment. They go into the studio celebrities and say what they think. They float on the surface, rave. And what? You can not convince the convinced. Today sells identity. Kazmierczak estimates that the erstwhile elite, rather than give a course of reality, shearers ears to hear what the people want. I realize his wishes. No: entail. No: propose changes. But to adapt to the unspoken even sympathy. Play a melody that will certainly like it, because all the well know.
The world of science
The idea for this text came from a conversation with one of my favorite professors, who is a man of great knowledge in his field, has already released a number of publications, is simply someone. But when we started talking about the fear of Europeans against the influence of Islamic fundamentalists, he began to mock and belittle. He argued that restrict us parochial fears that multiculturalism is the vanguard of progress, and only our prejudices do not allow us to draw extensively on this well. Broken charges corpses on the streets of European cities? Well, yes, some we did not. Back to the dialogue of these two worlds will be difficult.
I will not even try to convince his favorite professor, the wandering, especially since it has good intentions. He is fixated on what he learned however many decades ago. This is another problem. It’s hard to resist the impression that some scientists still paradigms celebrate the turn of the 60s and 70s, then this experience of contact with the West and suffered infatuation what then came up with the West. Unfortunately, despite systemic changes in Poland, which took place over the past three decades, continues to play a prominent features, sticking to the principle that science is only one – the one they recognize. It is enough for them, and anointed. Democratic principles they utterly do not interfere. These same people for years exchange positions. An example would be the current situation in the Central Committee. Degrees. One of the people in spite of feudal influence counting several decades so do not want to say goodbye to power, despite the passage of two consecutive terms of office at the next prominent position has found a way to become the third. Will continue to divide and rule.
This is a fairly acute example, but characteristic of this reality. – We are dealing with the feudal system, which does not allow to develop the younger generations – diagnosed by Dr. Księżopolski. The result is that servility charge. Young people know that they should not lean, faithfully carry a briefcase behind his professor, because when he dies, you will be able to take his place. Agree that the scientific masters did not have their own publications for 5-10-15 years, nothing studied, and most have signed up as reviewers of the work of doctors. Last Shanghai ranking is the best example: the fourth hundreds of the best universities in the world and UW Jagiellonka dropped to fifth. Dwarfing the intellectual has become a reality. Why? Again, answers can be many. Each tempting. The most popular: not enough money for education. Less popular: the money is enough, but they are badly spent. Inconvenient: money for tuition were stolen, distributed among the beneficiaries of the system.
But again przemieśćmy in time, back to the years when the baccalaureate was the passport to apply for a place in the elite of society. Not without reason called it the maturity exam. The man who passed the exam, he had a comprehensive education, not only with the required reading, not only solving activities on fractions, but also with the history of the world, the language – also the dead. We have produced a lost generation possess a worthless diplomas, driven out by poverty and lack of opportunities for foreign sponges. Frustrated, not to the end were aware of what was going on, but saying “no” reality.
As noted by Dr. Garapich, flaw of the modern world is, and that with each passing day exponentially arrives knowledge to aspiration. Not to grasp is this multiplicity of data, so accurate education, allowing to rotate in the world has been replaced by narrow specializations. And here again we come back to the world of values, which no longer exists. He says Garapich, today is not about to be wise to gather knowledge, but about to sell their skills. Anyone who will pay for it. And if you pay if it pays off, we will continue to sell the same story.
The politicians know best
servility, conformism, opportunism. It’s easy to blame adjectives such ideological opponents, especially that they will do the same before us comes to mind, so you do not need to have any particular resistance. So that goes on is our reality, that our discourse about the most important issues: one television some ghostly heads spewing out of himself wisdom about the salvation of the world, the second television hen many next sages. Duties elites? What matters is winning the war, here and now. A stiff guys professorial titles are for rent: sign under every nonsense invented by politicians. Scientists who do not respect because they know how easy it is to buy them. Privileges, fame, a sense of power, the impact of reality, and finally, simply, access to the trough. How many heroes will say, “No, it’s not like I do not agree?”
You can ridicule myself with the old authority, which, like a mantra repeated outworn truth, but these new who they are trying to replace, they are no better. Take the case assignment committee of experts convened by the Speaker of the Sejm Kuchciński who trymiga legalized most “hardcore” pieces of the Law on the Constitutional Court, which, moreover, the government is secretly withdrew. Sponger, no matter how much they wanted to, never become elite. They can only play the role of intellectual celebrities. Which story soon forget.
In this text have already been called to the table, politicians, scientists, lawyers, but the items in the list of false elites can be multiplied. We are happy I will add to the journalists, most of whom have already dropped uncomfortable mask of impartiality, to transform the militants of this or that party, and their newspapers and broadcasts turned into a propaganda newsletters. Often you do not need to read their texts, watch the programs, just look at the name and title, to be clear, we take the narrative. Because they have a party stamps nailed in the middle of the forehead. Just as talking heads professors who do not have time for real research, find it more than enough to share their thoughts on the reality in the media.
When I ask about it my interlocutors, they have one answer: you do not fly really good at television studios. Examine something, write something, they work. The studios of radio and television Przewale for this team ideological commissioners. They have different colors. For a similar level of vitriol. At best, you are reporting what I read in the foreign press from a month ago. Usually they say what they think. For the lips, in fact, one topic: what PiS and the PO what. To be clear: both parties as they have. This is called liberal and specifying the right. First whines, because it is no longer in charge. The second growls, he senses his downfall. Both think the same: democracy is when we we rule. Poorly? Very. Trump is better than Clinton because conservative – convince you right. And the godmother of Putin, whatever. What Tusk? Will be at the Brussels or return to the country with the tail tucked? This again spell right. Liberal for grab every bit of which can be inferred that the Polish clouds gather fascism. And that we are increasingly bylejacy. Our men nothing but harass sexually a woman (and that the study was sucked from the big toe, is irrelevant).
– For almost any information is a team of PR-owska doing news on request and for money – believed Garapich, who cut his teeth on analyzing content on electronic media. We walk ahead, not noticing the reefs in the intellectual firmament. It fast, bylejak. We do not check sources, not looking, we learn. Pseudowiedzę draw with messages Virtual Polish or other Boxes. Or movies or TV series. I bite each other, bite, bite. And finally we pour on each other the contents of the potty. We, the elite of the elite.
Recently, Grzegorz Sroczyński published in “Gazeta Wyborcza” an important text Fri. “A little too cheerfully to us.” “In a country like Poland and in times like today, you have to take into account also the bad scenarios. Including the worst. Spitting venom on today’s enemy may be spit on tomorrow’s companion misery. Ziemkiewicz and Sierakowski serving shoulder to shoulder in one insurgent unit, Gmyz and Maziarski printing together somewhere in the garage underground leaflets – that today are not quite ideas from space. It should keep the last thread connecting us to this unwanted brotherhood if anything was possible “- he wrote. This is all the more important that it came from the fingers of the journalist, “GW”, which is representative of the environment, which once exercised by the government of souls, it was said that Poles have to think, and today lost their influence on the reality float away from her, but it took a passionate defense of the old the world.
So maybe there is hope that the so-called. elite wake up, understand something, they remind yourself of your duties of? Garapich laughs: the optimistic theory derived from the experience of other countries, which says that the descendants of those who reached the peaks hit, power and fortune winning in the not too clean way, repent, and will want to become more than just a local variant of Paris Hilton. Moral aristocracy, not only the bourgeoisie. But the more realistic is another option – Lady descend on Earth, heal our society and just a miracle
Is anyone doing research on the public perception of the program 500+? Or an analysis of its impact on the economy? No one. It is unnecessary in an age when instead of a thorough public debate is ruled infotainment. They go into the studio celebrities and say what they think. They float on the surface, rave. And what? You can not convince convinced
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