In Serbia today there is hardly a more unpleasant and neomiljenije social issues of Kosovo. In the political dialogue it almost inevitably leads to the opening of contention and conflict among the citizens of wrath and despair, and public intellectuals is avoided at all costs and he would always prefer to deal with even the "hopeless issues" of corruption, lawlessness and economic and demographic decline, and not to mention the clear themes like "the success of our players," "increase in the number of foreign tourists" or "beauty Serbian girls." And in the spirit of the old Orwellian paradigm, which we can not talk about that you can not even think of, and no opinion there is no action, and the "Kosovo question" in our time languishing in front of a wall of ignorance and general rapidly down the mainstream of historical events towards the waterfall, "a new reality in the Balkans." Serbian intellectuals and activists is not hard to understand - how one could talk about something which is in itself absurd and paradoxical in all its manifestations and instances? Leaving aside the proverbial self-contradictory and often completely meaningless statements of the politicians on this issue, just look at the public opinion polls, which for the last half decade, the same result - the overwhelming majority of citizens believe that "Kosovo is lost," that would be in the same poll said that "the Kosovo's no way to quit. "
"We lost him, but it does not give" as it sums up the entire Serbian attitude towards its "southern province", be it politicians, intellectuals, and ordinary citizens, and the paradox and the unsustainability of such a practical attitude is probably the most compelling symbol of social hopelessness today Serbia.
When Kosovo was once called "the most expensive Serbian word" poet and academician Matija Bećković wanted to point out the almost magical effect that the mention of this name is in the local public, the irritability that this issue is causing Serbian citizens, as well as the fact that it was "Kosovo" the last bastion axiological Serbian public discourse around which the Serbian public gathered after meaningless, trampled and discarded once the basic concepts of "brotherhood and unity", "solidarity", "freedom" or "democracy." "Kosovo" is the one thing that Serbs will not and can not sell, as if the poet wanted to say. It is a name that in itself carries a special value and weight, which is impossible to ignore, or devalue stultify. While this observation is somewhat obviously true - because we see that careful placement of "news of Kosovo" and today can mobilize and electrify Serbian public faster and more powerful than any other social issues - while we can see the growing profanization, banalization and marginalization this term in public discourse.
As Kosovo is the "question of questions" has become secondary to "questions of life of citizens" such as crisis, poverty and ticketing system in Belgrade's public transport? How is it possible that this once unambiguous "basis of survival of the Serbian state and the people" put aside the public stage for the account of other issues, the resolution of which, incidentally, were not achieved no better results than the issue of Kosovo itself?
In addition to the above mentioned deep ambivalence that Serbian society has towards this issue ("we lost him, but it does not give"), in addition to resignation and fatigue politically active citizens before the Gordian knot which would mean cutting at the same time cutting off the cradle of Serbian spirituality of today's Serbian nuts, devaluation "Kosovo's ideas" can be traced through the activities of the two vocal and active political groups - one that is committed to "remove Kosovo from Serbian noose neck" and "overthrow the burden of the past" that "pulls Serbia to the bottom", and the other in his inarticulate, nedarovitom and basically unprincipled commitment to "preserving the constitutional and legal order" of the country in the very essence of things done disservice, a theme of "sovereignty and territorial integrity" into a dogmatic mantra and empty politicking.
The first group, which includes numerous non-governmental organizations, virtually all media and, unfortunately, most of the current politicians in the country, which itself flatters the now infamous term "Serbian cultural and political elite," its activity is reduced to aggressively and exclusively "Dealing with reality "," deconstruction of national mania "(in a milder variant" retired from political fairy tale ") and the promotion of European utopianism as eschatology, which should replace zavetnost defense of Kosovo.
For them, the Kosovo "has already lost," and "real Serbian politics" can be oriented only to "repair the damage" and had to really reach their own national interests. The second group consists of mostly well-meaning patriots, although often extremely iskalkulisani and political opportunists, who are its inadequate efforts "for the national cause" and the "preservation of the territory" Kosovo issue to the extent dogmatizovali, pamfletizovali and simplifikovali, that their (first dignified) political parole lost all the weight and meaning and become a thing of mockery and ridicule.
The best example of this is the slogan "Kosovo is Serbia", basically a banal and analytical proposition, whose parroting not only contribute to increasing understanding by Serbian position within the international community, but it is actually only contributed to the analytical validity of these claims into question and that is something that is supposed to be a self-evident truth turn into wishful thinking.
