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SOCIETY
This will end, as “load” huge margins on the way from ungrateful because it quickly and eas-
everything does, the field to the markets and the distri- ily fell into a political crisis. Its long-
however we must bution centers. term plans for investments could not
preserve Macedonia… be spread longer than two years, for a
We must not let the In Macedonia’s mind the progres- simple reason that the insecurity in-
others to “close” the sive against the semi-literate and semi- creased exponentially. Even in case of
Macedonian issues skilled academic world outsmarted the slightest noise, it had the impres-
through its separation each other. One of them insisted on sion that the depositors run to the
and vanishing. Either quality education and rigorous crite- banks in order to withdraw their de-
Macedonia will ria for the academic career, and the posits or to convert their denars into
engage to peacefully other one was too occupied with print- Euros, or to transfer them from one
leave this political ing diplomas, organization of student bank to another.
labyrinth or it will excursions and automatic promotion
disappear forever… in high teaching-scientific title… One There are many reasons for concern
it is obvious that world spoke about clear rules of the for Macedonia’s survival and the health
there is no longer a game, and the other one spoke about of the Macedonian economy. Maybe
possibility for two more flexible interpretation of the le- there’s a common life vision, however
Macedonias, it would gal norms and by-laws. One was inter- there is no unity in regard to the way
be one or none. ested in scientific projects and publica- how to conveys it to the public. Cur-
tions, and the other one was interested rently, the political interference and
in profit and accompanying lucrative double projections in the mind of the
motivations… split personality are too strong to pro-
vide the construction of a consistent
Sometimes Macedonia had an im- strategy for the country.
pression that it is riding in luxurious
Porsche models, that it eats sushi, What kind of Macedonia
steaks and lobsters and that it spends do we want?
the summer holiday in some exotic des-
tinations… The life of this first Mace- Maybe the global and the local po-
donia would be more pleasant it wasn’t litical actors will return Macedonia
for the unpleasant whistle of the one day. They will use it and return it.
breaks of the used cars that the second However, then it will come as morally
Macedonia was riding. The appallingly poor, humiliated and assaulted. It will
impoverished, unemployed and blue- never be the same. We would have to
strong worker Macedonia barely sur- build stronger institutions and firmer
vived. In desperation, it continuously norms, which will help it in the future
burst through all world meridians, of- to resist the arbitrariness of some po-
ten with sad photo in a Bulgarian pass- litical psychopaths. It would have to
port. That second one, and also emigra- kick the lazy buttocks of a part of the
tion Macedonia, knew that the wealth state officials and return them from
of Macedonia is first enabled by its the taverns to the offices in order to
poverty. The splendor and the misery work for it. It would have to get over
of the two Macedonias startled eacho- and done with the anachronous, retro-
ther and shocked throughout streets, grade and uninspired Macedonia in its
but more often in the virtual world (on mind, which sabotages even the most
Facebook and Instagram). The projec- well-meant reform steps. Otherwise,
tions of the different life films on the “it will stay as stone in dead silence.”
same screen, in the Facebook news,
discovered the unbearable paradox of It would have to keep its borders bet-
the modern Macedonian lifestyle. ter, to return its villages, to repair its
schools and hospitals, to asphalt its
Macedonia was no longer able to roads, to feed the poor children, how-
think about economy and business, ever also to give them work. The Mace-
without falling into political halluci- donian, Albanian and other children
nations. The economic models and the would have to learn something from
prognosis for this country were always each other. In the beginning, Macedo-
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