Prologue

WHAT ARE WE IN, IF WE’RE NOT IN OUR RIGHT MIND
Evidentiary Procedure

We are closing these covers too. The counter will move itself. But we know that nothing is ending and nothing is beginning. Rehearsed smiles and propagandistic toasts are all in vain. We still haven’t agreed on the right name of what has been happening in 2019, to us and to the world. However, we voted that it would be best to move a bridge onto the mainland. Everything is becoming devilishly difficult: suddenly polluted air, suspicious water, demonized news, economy flourishing on television, politics resembling a puppet show…
Is the name of that difficulty humiliation or exhaustion?
We are no longer capable of enjoying victories over ourselves. We are not expressing enough enthusiasm when ceremonially opening the same thing for the fourth time. We are realizing that picking at the brain is not a good means of persuasion.
”Every day, the network of poisoning media is pouring a terrifying quantity of crime, bestiality, madness, incest, perversion, into the public space. Murders are growing into realities and realities into mass murder. The ways of killing and raping are described in detail, like cooking recipes.” In such an environment, it is meaningless to talk only about the sacred, beautiful, sublime and honorable. You immediately sound as a preacher in a brothel.
”I think that art should liberate people from hesitating to speak about beauty and love”, says Professor Dragan Stojanović, PhD. ”Such censorship is perfidiously imposed everywhere, including the media with their ‘stars’. Life as an endless tabloid and people composed of mindless consumers, whose main spiritual contents are commercials for this and that – that is the ‘ideal’ one must confront on all fronts.”
If we don’t do it, already in the ”happy New Year” we’ll have to prove that Dečani and Ostrog are Serbian, that Kosovo is Serbia and that we are in our right mind.
Are we worried?
Or ready for a celebration?