Introduction

Too Late for Pessimism

The art of the Egyptians is in mysteriousness, Greeks in proportion, Romans in echo, Chinese in regulated behavior, Hindus in measuring good and evil, Arabians in memory and exaggeration, Persians in selectivity. The art of the French is in finesse, Englishmen in analysis and self-correctness, Spaniards in fanatism, Italians in beauty, Germans in ambition, Russians in melancholy.
Reading this Jubran’s series of masterly cuts, we asked ourselves: what about Serbs? What is the art of Serbs? In humor and heart as a shield? In frivolous forgiving? In the call of freedom? In the ancestors’ stick which suddenly grows leaves? In the difficulty to play small games?
Creating the new issue of National Review, we didn’t have the intention to help the reader find the answers. The thing is, after all, in the right questions.
The end is near. Of something. Yes, it’s too late for pessimism.