Logar in us

Last week, a good part of the Slovenian public was appalled over the founder of the Democrats Party Anžet Logarwho was hosting the show Politically on public television. The Minister of Foreign Affairs in the last Janša government denied the genocide in Gaza. He was overwhelmed by the statement of President of the Republic Natasha Pirc Musarwho knocked European MEPs in Brussels by stating that « in Gaza and the West Bank we are monitoring genocide and we are quiet. » According to the former SDS party, the president should not succumb to the « intimate wishes » that made her speech in the speech. Genocide is, Logar, a legal notion, and until the Hague court declares himself in Gaza, he should not be laid down with him, especially not before the world’s eyes.

Logar is partly right. Genocide is really a legal notion. But at the same time there is much more. It may sound dry, but genocide is an action. An act that happens before it finds itself on the agenda of the international tribunal. An act that is at this moment, after 60,000 deaths, after the planned starvation of the civilian population (etc.), very obvious. Logar has forgotten this aspect or simply not part of his mental map. With Eichmann’s coolness, he hid behind the wheels of an omniscient and almighty bureaucratic apparatus.

… But behind the wheel black wolf,

here between the wheel

Man, man.

(Against manSrečko Kosovel)

I did not start writing this column because I would like to draw attention to Logar’s narrow -mindedness, heartlessness, or at best the unbelievable public speaking. I started writing it because I recognize myself in Logar’s thought process and factory settings our society.

Another matter that upset the Slovenian public last week is a dispute between a fun music singer Niko Zorjan and Raay production. The latter has achieved that they removed all videos of the Prekmurje musicians from various online platforms that were created during collaboration. A typical media scandal followed. Behind details began to be leaked one after the other, friends, resident colleagues and lawyers of both pages involved, but all in the desire to get as close as possible to the truth. And when I became acquainted with the background of the scandal with a few days, my first question was, who is wrong or who is right, but: who has better chances in court?

This response is no specialty. Institutions and the profession often shape our worldview. When they do their job fair and good, they should be trusted. But there’s a trap. Trust quickly becomes an excuse for laziness and non -fiction. Trust in (fair) institutions is a value. Non -thinking is evil.

The comparison is certainly exaggerated: on the one hand, we have one of the biggest atrocities of the 21th century, on the other a relatively irrelevant entertainment dispute. Thinking about war crimes is something other than thinking about copyright and labor law, but it seems to me that it is precisely such irrelevant, banal and everyday divisions to be the best training ground for thinking training, the training we still need when it goes when we have to think about groundbreaking events, great atrocities. A man who waves his hand with every misdemeanor or disagreement will already be ruled by the competentit is well on its way to hide in the cold of the bureaucratic wheel at every opportunity. But behind the wheel …