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The teacher participated in the panel “How are you today?” which was carried out by Danas in cooperation with the BIRODI agency
Sociologist Dr. Ratko Bozovic warned of the serious problems caused by the lack of critical audiences, commenting on the results of the online survey “How are you today?” Danas and BIRODI daily.
Photo: Belgrade Media CenterThe consequence of the lack of critical public is shown in the great dissatisfaction with the political scene among citizens and the turn to the family that they expressed in the survey, concluded Professor Božović.
“People in Serbia live as if the wind is blowing leaves on autumn days.” Today, they are not standing firm on their feet and they have no feeling of managing their lives, “Bozovic said.
The feeling of insecurity and fear for their future that the citizens of Serbia feel gives wider powers to the structures in power, is the opinion of the professor.
“In such a situation, they turn to the government and ask for their salvation, and the government uses it itself,” he continued.
“The consequence of the non-existence of a critical public is that there is no public opinion, there is no dialogue. “If a dialogue can be carried out with a single person, then it is not a dialogue,” he concluded.
Research has shown that most citizens today feel worried, tired, or confused by the current public situation.
Explaining the origin of the discontent shown by citizens in their responses to the survey, he said that “when there is a man, everyone else is irrelevant, including his followers” and stressed that the current situation does not benefit anyone, not even his own. government, because the less the citizens ask, the greater the discontent among them.
He described our society as very divided, between the followers of the government and those who advocate the existence of public dialogue.
“The absence of a critical audience has a devastating effect on society,” he concluded.
“The program offered to citizens is only the result of a further collapse of the public sphere of life in Serbia.” “The situation in culture is catastrophic, it is on the margins of society or it does not exist,” he said.
“When you combine a broken family, a bad situation in the educational system and a culture that is losing its place in the public sphere, the results of the survey become clear, and all of that is politics,” he said.
He emphasized the need to react urgently, without delay and waiting, and in his speech he referred to the protests of the 1990s, concluding that Serbia was a world then, and that today it is suffocating in the struggle only for the good personal.
Professor Bozovic also commented on the current situation with the opposition in Serbia.
“I am very angry with our opposition. They fight and divide, instead of withdrawing if they cannot agree and give space to those who want and can. No more time to waste.” They must organize together, right-wing and pro-European, to avoid further loss of votes, today when every vote and every voter is important, “concluded Bozovic.
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