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THE GREAT INQUISITION — THE SOCIETAL, POLITICAL ORGANIZATION, THE GRAND INQUISITOR — LEADER —

SOCIETAL, POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS

“The Church is the personification of the Grand Inquisitor (so, for example, in the graphic representation of the concept ‘church’ — which is anyway ‘the personification of the institution, the inquisition, the beast’ which is ‘the highest ideal of the Catholic madhouse’ — a picture of the Parliament of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is used). Everything else besides that is repetition.” The Grand Inquisition, the institution, or the system of institutions headed by the leviathans, technologists, beasts, is all headed by the Grand Inquisitor.

THE FURTHER DEVELOPMENT AND PRACTICAL COMPLETION OF THE GOALS ESTABLISHED IN THE DICTIONARY OF TECHNOLOGY ON THE PAGES OF STUDENT MOVE TO THE CONCRETE APPLICATION OF THEIR IDEOLOGY ON THE PAGES OF STUDENT

Thanks to the fact that the editor-in-chief of Student is one of the members of the “hard core” of this group, the group continues its public activity by publishing texts on the second, main page of Student ; the texts openly (for those who have found the “key”) call for the abolition of the system established by the Constitution and for a radical showdown with all ideological opponents (the so-called Technologists). This activity develops continuously, from edition to edition becoming more aggressive and open. In order for us to show the character of this activity, we will cite characteristic examples from the introductory comments (p. 2) from edition 18 to edition 26–27 in chronological order.

Number 18: In an “Open Letter” one of the members of the editorial board of Vidici (Slobodan Škerović) develops the theory further that “the problems of Society are not at all the problems of the Person.” He rejects any kind of systematic solution to the problem of financing Student , even rejecting the system itself in the end . As a whole, Škerović as a Person clearly does not need a social-political system (a mirror) or the economic stabilization of the functioning of this system because stabilization: “is necessary to solidify and legalize the existing state of corruption, that is, disintegration, which is a farce created exactly so that nothing will be done.” He attacks Bora Mišeljić, the editor-in-chief of Student because, in asking for financing for the publication of the newspaper, “he is taking part in the general farce of complaining about stabilization.” “But comrade Bora, one enemy remained unconquered then, if I may say so, and I am right, an invisible enemy, and that enemy, the biggest one a man has, seems like failing, like failure in itself, because what is this stabilization of ours other than failure itself ?” “Because, Bora, you fell into the trap of becoming a hunter of flies and you move in a curved mirror , in a beautifully imagined picture, a small role in a great performance. So, Bora, SHATTER THAT MIRROR , break the strands of the cobwebs! And by your own will (emphasis S. Škerović) put a stop to that illusion of decisiveness that is played on the flat perspectiveless stage, that is played out on a flat surface,” etc.

Number 19 : Bora Mišeljić completely accepts the invitation to break the mirror (discrediting the social-political system), publishing an article under the characteristic title: “Reality and the Mirror.” In this article B. Mišeljić complains about how “we remain alone because the Person and living people are ever fewer,” but then warns “that Student will not be the silent victim of some monster mechanism, nor will it, well lubricated, execute a completely unimportant, imaginary function and thereby justify its own disappearance.”

Number 20 brought the introductory article: “As You Like It,” likewise from the pen of a member of the Vidici editorial board. The author of the text first praises B. Mišeljić because “he sees the problem of the mirror since it is obvious that there are many who are far away from understanding it as a problem.” He also openly advocates that societal problems should not be solved in a democratic way and through the normal functioning of the social-political system. “In fact, the real questions and problems cannot be completely analyzed on the level of the political plane as has been done so far. Politics is not just a limitation, but is actually one of the strongest underpinnings of the MIRROR (read: societal and political system) together with its auxiliary weapons, from institutions to ideology.” Since “real solutions cannot be given within the framework of politics,” the author counsels that “one should not emulate the speakers in the parliament and at the meetings who just keep babbling: blah, blah, and then again blah, blah.” Or, as it says in the Dictionary of Technology , “The Boy talks, the Person acts.”

A new codeword is used: “The Amateur Theater BEHIND THE LOOKING GLASS ” (emphasis by the author). Like all other code words, this apparently naïve one really does look like a proposal for a new theater. But the real key for the codeword: “Amateur Theater BEHIND THE LOOKING GLASS” is given in the next issue (21), p. 2, which is the peak of the insolence and aggressiveness of this group. There it can clearly be seen that the “Amateur Theater BEHIND THE LOOKING GLASS” is the state of affairs that should take the stage after they shatter the mirror — the socio-political system. That is why the author of the text, published in number 20, invites B. Mišeljić and the editorial board of Student to join him, with the words: “What do you and your, that is our, editorial board think about, let’s say, taking part, active participation and perhaps informing the students and the rest of the world about that project,” mentioning that Bora, “probably knows people who are not steeped in politics and who might be available to join this group.”

B. Mišeljić, of course, conscientiously did his part of the job and, in number 22/23 offers the text (p. 2): “I Am Publishing Communism” whose writer signed in under the pseudonym “Marko Broz.” In this text a clear difference is made between society and the community of this group of like-minded Persons that is called a comunis . Speaking thus also in the language of code, here the thesis is emphasized that a member, comunist , answers only to his community and not to society. “Our commune, our community, must be the most important to us so we cannot proclaim the municipality, for example, to be more important than the commune. If someone goes beyond the comunis-community, they can further proclaim a province, republic or state to be the most important ” (emphasis “M. Broz”). A general state of irresponsibility reigns in the socio-political system, as opposed to the community (read: this group of the like-minded) which answers to everyone. That is why “the community cannot fail” and the system can, “It is easy for the system to fail when it does not answer for itself or to others, but rather someone must answer to it.”

The next number 24 offers the text of Antonio Negri (known as the ideologist of the Red Brigade ) in the column “Theory of Crisis,” which fits exceptionally well into the conception of the abovementioned group and which speaks of the complete identification of conceptually like-minded people. Here Antonio Negri, using his own terminology, proves that the only way to solve the social crisis is the overthrowing of the Constitution and the system founded upon it (“When does this mechanism collapse? When the contractual representation collapses which is the moment of the transformation of values into institutions, social products into planning and Governmental Legislation. That can happen for several reasons, which after all touch upon all the essential terms of the basic norms, i.e. the material nature of the Constitution : in the aggressive dynamics of the social contract it again becomes possible if the terms are changed of the basic proportions of the material written in the Constitution ”).