‘Be faithful. Go!’ What would Herbert say on his 100th birthday? informing about Michnik and neocommuna highly current
100 years ago, Zbigniew Herbert, 1 of the most prominent Polish poets of the 20th century, was born in Lviv. Dramatographer, essayist, phase art author and proceeding aids, as well as translator of French poetry. A man who was disgusted by false and false arrangements of the 3rd Republic of Poland. He did not accept inexpensive compromises and opposed political-media hypocrisy. most likely why he didn't receive the Nobel Prize, although he definitely deserved it. “Be brave. erstwhile reason fails, be brave. In the end, that's all that matters... Be Faithful Go," he appealed in "Mr. Cogito's Message". With this courage he called Adam Michnik a manipulator and a fraud. present it is even clearer how much he was right.
The poets frequently see deeper and deeper. Especially those whose sensitivity does not yield to realism. Among these were Zbigniew Herbert, who persisted in pursuing truth, distinguishing beauty from kitsch, knowing the actual good. On the 100th anniversary of the Master's birthday, it is worth returning to his work.
Go where they went...
go upright among those on your knees
among those who turn their backs and fall into dust...
Be brave erstwhile reason fails be brave
in the final account, that is all that matters’
Mr. Cogito's character occupied quite a few space in Herbert's work. He claimed that he helped him distance himself from both events and the reader. "I invented this character to talk for me, due to the fact that I don't like direct confessions myself. But I do not always agree with her," he said in an interview with Polish Radio.
There are noble and vile things. Woe to the border
Herbert was an uncompromising man. He took a clear attitude towards both communism and the III of Poland and the authorities it promoted. Many claim that it was this steadfastness that made him, although he was a serious contender to the Nobel Literary Prize since the late 1960s, never to be met. Wisława Szymborska, the favourite of Salon III of Poland, was given to her, who could find herself creatively even in Stalinism. Herbert, on the contrary.
I like swimming against the current, and even losing to the current, due to the fact that at least that makes the muscles. I came up with this practical, private, moral directive: if you have 2 ways to choose, always choose the way harder for you. And besides, I believe there are things beautiful and ugly, good and bad, noble and vile. And woe to specified structures in which these borders will be wiped in the name of anything
“He spoke in an interview published in “Politics” in 1972.
‘Michnik is simply a manipulator’
He saw the planet clearly. In time, he was increasingly discovering false cards of “regained freedom”. He did not accept round-the-clock arrangements and the lying foundations of the 3rd Republic of Poland. Not many understood that yet. Today, erstwhile cognition of Adam Michnik's relation with Gen. Jaruzelski is already common, it is much easier to realize Herbert's firmness in the opinion of the editor-in-chief of “Gazeta Wyborcza”. Michnik hanging around Jaruzelski's neck, calling him “a Polish patriot” and “a man who loves Poland”, is an highly disgusting scene. It happened after the poet died, but it full shows what Herbert knew before others found out.
There'd be nothing without him. There would be nothing without you, Wojtek. Nothing! Nothing! Just you and Wałęsa – they were 2 people who could change the course of past and you did it
— He testified to Michnik Jaruzelski on the night of 12th to 13th December 2020, on the next anniversary of martial law. At the same time before the General's villa – as all year – a large group of people commemorating the victims of the bloody government stood in prayer. https://www.youtube.com/embed/VPuYMWAyQN4?rel=0
It is hard to have a more striking image of fiction, which was established after 1989. "Gazeta Wyborcza" effectively concreted the neo-communist arrangement, ensuring that in the 3rd Poland there was no settlement of a treacherous attack on its own people. They created their own authority, created fresh systems, and expanded the sphere of influence. Communist criminals remained covered, under the slogans of democracy and freedom a shameful compromise of the silence of the guilty. Post-communists wrote their own past of "Solidarity", discrediting effectively those who wanted Poland truly free, sovereign, identity and faithful national heritage. They destroyed all manifestation of conservative pursuits, eating in a large political-business-media game with absolute propaganda. And it was precisely what Zbigniew Herbert warned against, saying that “there is neo-communism in Poland”.
Michnik is simply a manipulator. This is simply a man of sick will, a liar, an intellectual fraud. The ideology of these gentlemen, that is, that in Poland there should be "socialism with a human face". This is an unbearable ghost for me. If there's a monster, he should have a monster face. I can't stand hybrids like this and I'm moving out the window screaming.
A fresh Face of Postcomuna
The post-communist monster is inactive doing great. He just came back in a fresh disguise. After all, Donald Tusk promised erstwhile communist officials that "the harms will be repaired" and restored their pension privileges. Nor is any further settlement to be expected, for, as General Mazguł, a supporter of the civilian Coalition claimed, the martial law was a "cultural event". The settlements will be, but they are aimed at opponents of the 3rd Republic. And it's hard adequate for them to feel the strength of revenge. The political salons are being returned to the diplomats trained in Moscow, the legal order is completely undermined, the so-far sovereign pursuits are completely reset and the old, patted-up arrangement of forces is being played. Past persecution and Ubek methods have returned. You can see them in the successive pashquila of the paper from Czerska and left-wing media, in a fanatical nag against the Church and in the revolutionary inflammation of destroying the foundations of Latin civilization.
What would Zbigniew Herbert say on his 100th birthday? There's something to draw from. "Mr Cogito's message" is inactive up to date: “You have not saved to live, you have small time to bear witness. Be faithful. But these crucial indications, leads and reminders are much more in the Master's work. So does the beautiful sensitivity that allows the heart to shine, and the soul to yearn more for its eternal purpose. “We have a flame that thinks and wind to fire and sail,” he writes in the poem “Sign”. “When the origin of the stars dries, we will shine at night. erstwhile the wind stones, we will decision the air" ...
