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The psychologist Žarko Trebješanin warned of the danger of completely turning citizens into subjects and explained that every individual disapproval is important in the resistance, so that the pressure from below grows and becomes so great that the government cannot resist it.
Photo: YouTube / N1 Screenshot“In the 1990s, we really became subjects and we were in a miserable position. Yet despite the often brutal repression of the then regime (SPS, SRS, JUL), we had the strength to rise up, to become citizens, revolt and overthrow the government, which seemed cemented, “Trebjesanin said in a conversation with Beta.
He stated that “over time, the democratic government collapsed, there was less and less democracy.” “And here we come to a situation that threatens to become completely defenseless subjects,” he added.
According to Trebjesanin, “if everyone thought: I don’t care, which means one less in the mass of people demonstrating, then there would be no one, let’s say, in the street protests”, and “if everyone understood that he he is personally responsible, there would be a million rebels in the streets. “
“I guarantee you that there are twice (a million) who are dissatisfied with this kind of life,” Trebjesanin stressed.
According to him, people leave Serbia not only because the economic situation is bad.
They do not give up the ‘rage’, which yearns for a luxurious life, but, as the research shows very exactly, they do so because they are dissatisfied with the government, the institutions, the corruption, the anarchy, because they are denied basic human rights, simply because there is no “Justice”, he said.
Trebjesanin evaluated that “these are some moral reasons”.
“Young people do not have the opportunity to realize themselves in their country as people, parents and as experts, and they have finished school, they have other necessary qualities. And every man has that life and cannot wait forever to be ‘better once’ here, “Trebješanin noted.
He stated that life in a society where there are practically no institutions or they are only on paper, so basic rights cannot be realized: work, free elections, a dignified life, a fair trial and others, despite attempts useless, leads to that. that one believes that nothing can be done.
“It’s called learned helplessness. But if you think that this is not exactly the case, that with a patient, persistent and determined struggle for democracy, that can change and that will happen. The situation is difficult, but there have been cases of this type before , and maybe even worse. “You had an absolutist, authoritarian and cruel government and yet you managed to change it,” Trebjesanin said.
But, as he pointed out, that implies a collective effort and each individual is important in it.
“The more people believe that it can lead to change, with the strength of the struggle for what is fair, for basic human rights, and if that pressure becomes great enough, then there is no authority that can resist it,” said Trebjesanin .
“Now it is only a question of how long, but I say, who believes and who does not regret the effort to achieve it, surely he will achieve it,” he added.
That, in comparison, as with kovid and all other plagues, instead of giving in to the feeling of helplessness, which is caused by a long-lasting epidemic with much uncertainty, it is necessary to show perseverance, patience and strength of spirit.
As a reminder that he once hinted that a major uprising would take place, which entered the recent political history of Serbia, Trebješanin says he spoke of a possible surprise.
“Yes, I said that, for example, I don’t remember exactly, but I mean September 1996, and the famous protests started in November of the same year. None of the sociologists could have predicted that, so I couldn’t have predicted it either, but I said that there was such a possibility and that we could be surprised, “Trebjesanin said of the 1996-97 civil protests that forced the then government to admit the theft of premises. of choice.
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