Who's crazy – me or the world?

Good title, isn't it? This is from Michał Pabian's play, which will premiere at the fresh Theatre in Łódź.

Isn't religion in the resurrection crazy? And is it not equally crazy to believe that a planet built on a Christian strategy of values can cope with God’s death? But before that, things are more prosaic.

The Spectre of Failure

A pre-Christmas week brought the first real signal of the possible defeat of the Civic Platform in the presidential election.

The clear declines in the polls of Rafał Trzaskowski and the unchangeable ratings of Karol Nawrocki may be a temporary swing, a negative reaction of the debate, or a signal of a change in trend.

If a clear favourite starts to lose on the last straight, his run will take place in an unfavourable context. It is adequate to compare what is said present about Mentzen and Holowna with what prevailed 2 weeks earlier.

When a candidate tries to swim against the current of popular opinion wastes a immense part of his effort, he is hard to break through with a affirmative message. Of course, 1 can effort to reverse the trend, the ruling organization has many tools, but it can besides make unfortunate burdens.

There has been a demobilization of the Trzask electoral base, a number of voters “discovered” Holovnia and Biejat and Zandberg, not all of them request to be willing to transfer votes to the KO candidate in the second round. There will always be any losses compared to voters who would vote in the first circular on Trzaskowski.

Since Tusk tweeted “we keep our fingers crossed for Magda and Simon”, it means that it is truly bad. The manager intervenes erstwhile he sees that his subordinates can't handle themselves.

In addition, the impression that KO wants to seduce not even the centre right, but the hard right – ignoring the sensitivity of its electorate is deepened. The nationalisation of the economy is an thought of 100% written, connected with taking control of private business for individual purposes. And this announced just after NIK published a study on the failure of PLN 5 billion to the Treasury in connection with the absorption of Lotus by Orlen of the sale of any of Saudom's assets.

Do we truly want to have more companies controlled in the future by Obiek, Sasin or Mentzen? After all, the po governments will not last forever. And they, in a delicate way, are not just an oasis of unparty substance.

Trzaskowski was besides not helped by giving the rainbow flag back. This is simply a problem erstwhile a candidate alternatively of entering his identity into a broader message with which he wants to go to voters: putting the rainbow flag next to the white red and saying, “in a country where I will be president no 1 will be discriminated against for any reason” – he tries to avoid subjects uncomfortable for him. It must have been payback, since there was already an chance for opponents to attack.

Fame MMA Campaign

At the same time, I have a feeling that the discussion about debates and about the run is profoundly detached from what should be the essence of the discussion about the future president of Poland. The run is not a Fame MMA fight, although at times there was a different impression. This is yet not about how “who fell out” but about who will best represent Poland in the planet and who will fulfil the constitutional framework of the functions of the President.

Making an election run something of a sporting event makes even the journalists made subject to a kind of psychosis of boxing commentators or football matches. erstwhile choosing the president of Poland, we must look not at a clip in youtube or a ten-second repost on television, but at the achievements, on the way of life, competence, consistency in the proclamation of views, of course the presence and image besides – we do not yet live in the era of newspapers and radio.

Who has a imagination of Poland in Europe and the planet – due to the fact that it will besides depend on a appropriate knowing of the situation, the relationships built and the decision of the future president, how Poland will cope in a planet of uncertainty, which is already here, which bombards us all day with further incredible news.

This is to be expected from the media, the context, going deeper, not just repeating what all average political observer sees with his own eyes.

I late started reading an interview of the river as large as always Donata Subbotko with Rafał Trzaskowski. For a book published in the run there are many interesting memories of the president of Warsaw, there were quite a few fragments on the web, so I will not repeat them.

What is conspicuous – and is someway very different for politicians I know – is simply a sense of split. Trzaskowski tells a lot about his readings, passions – this is the essence of his life. Politics is simply a profession, but it's something separate that it spends as much time as it has to.

I do not remember that in his speeches he referred to what he read (or the music he likes) to historical events, almost as if he wanted to keep this sphere of life as far distant from the trivial planet of performances at organization rallies.

Perhaps part of the mystery is that Trzaskowski became a politician, as it were, starting with the European Parliament, which is most frequently a reward for years' service than the beginning of his career. The fact that he has retained a large part of himself may be 1 of the reasons for popularity among voters who see that he can talk average language, show average human emotions.

On the another hand, if Trzaskowski had full utilized his intellectual resources to engage in political activity, wouldn't he be better, deeper, in what he does? I don't know him adequate to answer that question unequivocally. The President's role, if he embraces it, will prove to be the final test where all the cards he holds will should be placed on the table.

There's life, there's death

And since we're at the books. I've been given "God is gone, there is life." Piotr Augustyniak – whom I know personally and very much appreciate – decided to compose about his goodbye to the Catholic Church (he was in the Dominican novitiate) and about the search, what exactly? Spirituality sounds a small clichéd, like a guidebook on a good life. Trans, kairos, Nietzsche, Dionysos and Jesus – see for yourselves.

This is not another episode of why Catholicism is bad, but an honest and individual communicative about a certain path, about the request that most of us have accompanied: the dimension of the elusive simple sum of material needs and regular distractions that gives us a crazy world.

It's a reading to take a breath of spring air, with a odor of asphalt in the rain. The suns, which hurt a small besides hard in the eyes, so that you gotta close them and feel them – see – rays through closed eyelids.

Maybe you'll forget about the madness of the planet for a while. And you'll love the madness of life.

Leszek Jażdżewski