Such a title guide, you can get in my beautiful city, which I paraphrase in the intended way. This is the consequence of fresh events that accelerated before the weekend, and then besides on the day of the presentation and discussion of the book with selected articles Alexander Dugintranslated into Polish by Matthew Piskorski.
Gdańsk closed premises
First after the announcement that the presentation and discussion of the book will take place in Gdańsk School After the intervention of the writer “Gazeta Wyborcza” and the bombing of the university by people who are mostly guests here, the school authorities gave up the usage of the hall. erstwhile our friend decided this time to secretly rent a hall in a city-known place, which, after obtaining information from a trusted person, was to be the place of the gathering to which only discreetly informed persons were to arrive, on the day of the meeting, erstwhile the members of the editorial board “Thinking of Poland” went from Łódź after the presentation and discussion there, he received a telephone call from the man who rented the area and was informed that unfortunately the area had to talk to him, due to the fact that you intervened in the matter, among others, with an east accent and the ABW.
Not offended by this fact, they came to a friend's apartment, who informed them that the hall had been ordered out, guests after a heated discussion with another local people willing to carry out, despite adversity in the "city of freedom", meetings and discussions decided to go to a place that was already ready thanks to friends waiting in the city. Thus, against Censura (referring to the increasingly popular YouTube channel of this name) meetings and intensive discussions about the book and the situation in Gdańsk took place.
Freedom and values
Here's an outline of the situation in the city, which many call "the cradle", erstwhile it comes to the 1989 transformations. (By the way, the gathering place was very close to the areas of the "more and more former" Gdańsk Shipyard, which was called "the cradle of Solidarity", mentioned by the late. Andrzej Lepper, speaking in the Sejm to parliamentarians with a solidarity pedigree: “You can’t save the cradle, and you want to save Poland”).
However, let us return to the perverse title of guide mentioned at the beginning. What is freedom in a strict sense, especially since there is so much talk about freedom of discussion, reading, critical reasoning after 1989? Freedom is "possibly man's regulation over his fate, over social life by learning and exploiting the nonsubjective rights governing life", as he informs us in his dictionary of philosophical and sociological concepts Adam Jan Karpiński. However, looking at social practice, 1 can get the impression that the attitude of the municipal authorities contradicts the word, which is expected to be a superior value for them. And the word value means “Determining what is worth pursuing, what is worthy, what can be submitted to”. However, after 33 years of what many call “regaining freedom” (let us note that “freedom” in Poland has already lived up to the age of Christ) it looks like the 1 formally enshrined in the Constitution “freedom” has been crucified and the city's authorities have accepted the function of Pilate, who does not perceive to those who would like to talk about a legally published book, but does the will of those who are only guests here and should adapt to the fact that the hosts want to meet and talk about subjects that correspond to even a tiny number of people.
Shoe of the Gdańsk Liberals
I was personally known as a councillor of the City of Gdańsk after 1 of the subsequent elections to the City Council, erstwhile the PO took all the power, and for another word he was elected Paul Adamovich She told me a communicative erstwhile the tragically deceased president of Gdańsk boldly at 1 of the sessions of the City Council said that he “has no 1 to talk to.” As you can see, the situation has entered another phase, erstwhile not only the city authorities believe that they have no 1 to talk to but besides agree that 1 call from the Ukraine Consulate in Gdańsk could cancel the meeting.
The absurdity of the situation is added by the fact that, of course, no of the protestors read the book, each of them based on respective propaganda, general, demonic, and above all false information about the author translated into our language of texts. In addition, many shouters were convinced that Dugin himself would come to Gdańsk, which was besides reflected in questions asked in communicators by people with names indicating origin from outside our east border. 1 might ask what will happen next time a akin effort to meet in Gdańsk, this time on another topic? Will this be blocked again at the request of guests from another countries?
From Solidarity to censorship
For household reasons, I know the stories of people who erstwhile had to meet secretly after dwellings in order to be able to print banned newspapers, books, and discuss forbidden subjects. However, any of them present do not see how rapidly what they fought for became their denial. Due to liberal-solidarity traditions, as well as the prosperity they frequently provided themselves with the education they gained in the times of the Polish People's Republic, which allowed for good work, they created a myth. The same story works on the rule of programming, which erstwhile specified a man is put before facts, he will answer with silence, or signify it with the word "the worse for facts." In addition, the strengthening of this story of “freedom” present is carried out through a war frenzy that unleashed additional layers of rusophobia.
The fewer curious in the fact that specified a gathering was to take place, which they thought was rightly cancelled, thus legitimizing censorship, which returns to where it was allegedly from in 1980 after the emergence of Solidarity, cast out by the enthusiasm of those who did not request capitalism at the time, and "socialism without distortion". The average, unoriented, hard-working man does not announcement that the bare notion of freedom means nothing without making him responsible, but alternatively of specified a connection, the notion of “freedom from” is added in an invisible way. And such, seduced by an abstract concept, man is free from independent thinking, so he agrees passively to let strangers in Gdańsk to decide what and where to talk about. As a result, another space is added.
First, the capital acquired more and more public space by building further protected settlements, private parking lots, which are created at subsequent private discounts and buying malls. However, economical force is only 1 dimension of space's acquisition. Another dimension that is revealed to us is intellectual violence, which is manifested by the embodiment of city authorities and abroad influences of public space intended for discussion. But the subject of the discussion can only be determined by the authorities and it is crucial that it be "safe" for them and that it does not require much intellectual effort, subject to the geopolitical code imposed locally and for the full country. In addition to the framework of this code, however, the subject of the book, about which the full scandal arose.
Arthur Mushroom
