27.03.25. The dance of St. Vitus

27.03.25. DanceSt. Welcome

It was a completely uncontrollable dance, which was made public by groups of people remembering, exerting themselves to faint. He was practiced in Western Europe between the 14th and 17th centuries. Scientists have disputed what caused collective psychosis.
This phenomenon has been reborn in fresh years in Poland. With stubbornness and amok dances the PiS and its worshipers. And there's no substance what dance figures...

Thus begins 1 of the seventy 7 columns Janusz Anderman compiled in a book published at the end of January this year by Austeria Publishing home (quote: p. 167, January 2023). The title of this column – The dance of St. Vitus – the full set of texts is now signed. The image of Stasys Eidrigevičius on the cover means his. If we keep in head Pieter Brueg's paintings of the younger and review the corresponding Wikipedia slogans, the notion of acts of collective madness most likely caused by the lilac, or a illness of the tense system, which in the past in thousands of people from different countries caused behaviors called "dance mania", "dance plague" or "dance epidemic", will gain additional power...

Collected in Anderman's book earlier, it was possible to read systematically from April 2021 to September 2024 in the "Big Format", i.e. the magazine "Gazeta Wyborcza". Their expression and stylistics the author neatly announced immediately at the entrance. In the first batch of the first text – Words with torn feathers – he wrote:

Wing words are colorful statements that proceed and that we quote. For example: “What a female has to do with the antenna, as the grandpa besides has socks.” Or, “Guest in the house, pregnant wife.” According to Homer, those are words that go from mouth to mouth.
With us, the winged words were gathered and published in books Henryk Markiewicz and Andrzej Romanowski (see above authors Wing words. The large dictionary of Polish and abroad quotes. fresh edition improved and importantly expanded Literary Publishing House, Kraków 2005 – sk). Their work must be continued, due to the fact that winged words curse and fly all day. Of course, they have different weights and so any travel in dense mowing flight, while others glide freely in the sky.
Let us take a simple example in the field of economics: Copernicus-Gresham's law, which says that worse money displaces better money. Yes, rather successful, inactive alive and applicable. But let us besides quote another law, called the regulation of Lech Kaczyński, which has evidently shaken the full economical world: “If individual has money, it means that individual has money.” An crucial winged economical thought, which immediately after the formulation became the iron regulation of the Law and Justice, showed itself as Prime Minister was the mayor of Brzeszcz Szydło: "It is adequate not to steal".
It just so happens that the authors of the winged words are people with us in 1 way or another connected with the PiS. This is not surprising, of course, due to the fact that birds only fly advanced flights (Dance..., pp. 5; April 2021).

Adam Michnik in the cover sheet of the cited book points out that

Anderman writes a lot about politics, although he's not curious in politics, but stupidity. The triumphant presence of stupidity in the planet of Polish politics. These columns are a chronicle of the stupidity of the times of the 3rd Polish [...].
His voice, the one-man bias of common sense and reasonable humour, the description of the pundits of actual Poles and the offensive of aggressive stupidity, is simply a evidence that we have not all gone completely crazy. Each of these columns is polemic, fighting but free from hatred speech and mud slander. Anderman uses irony, not nickname, sword, not stick. Like Benia Screaming from Babla: speaks small but tastes good.

Ironically saturated columns of Anderman evidence crucial events and behaviours of PiS politicians in Polish politics. And it would undoubtedly be comic if only it did not turn out to be shockingly sad at the same time, and if it did not appear from these images a pathetic reality – indeed – reality. At times, it even seems that the crazy dance of St.Vita, which evokes Anderman, not only concerns the Law and Justice, that we are all drawn up and encompassed the full planet today, resulting in expanding polarization of individual societies. This is, of course, related to access to digital media and the unprecedented pace, scope and quality of the spread of views and opinions on any subject.

In the light of specified reflection, it comes to head immediately resumed late (2024) by Bellona Praise for Stupidity Erasmus of Rotterdam (Anonymous translation). Text from 1509. For 500 years, the Upsonized Stupidity has continued to reprove its values in it, commending hypocrisy, cynicism, arrogance, or linguistic manipulations by reversing meanings as the basis of successful life. The exposition of the figure of Foolishness emphasizes, of course, the author's ironic view of human imaginations about the planet and decent life.

This is the signal coming out of the shelf. Justin Gregg The curse of homo sapiens. Why reasoning Kills (tow. Maria Grabska-Ryńska and Maciej Grabski, Lower Silesian Publishing House, Wrocław 2023). She's been mentioned in these. Records in the text entitledSpeciality Paradox of 7.09.2023). It is besides worth pointing out in this context the book of the American author and journalist, Matt Taibbi,Hate sp. z o.o.How the media present tell us to despise each other (in Polish: Tomasz S. Gałązka, Wydawnictwo Czarne, Wołowiec 2024). It's a story. It specifically concerns the United States of America, but the mechanisms described in it function perfectly in our country. He writes about them, for example, Simon Cracks, Publicist and channel creator The War of Ideas and Simon saysin the book The War of Ideas. Think your own way. (Sign of Horizon, Kraków 2022). Here we will besides find any proposals for affirmative solutions that concern the author's issues. In the beginning chapter of the book Cracks, we will read, among another things:

Something's changed. I began to announcement this a fewer years ago, although at first I could not explain precisely what it was about. most likely the first sign of the change was that in both regular conversations and in the media, the frequency of naming individuals or full groups had importantly increased Bad people. Of course, these words have barely always been utilized specifically. Instead, they utilized terms like literally like Hitler., Worse than Bolsheviks and – depending on the environment – many another phrases that are synonymous with evil. In another words, it functions in our planet as a secular substitute for accusations of conschats with forces of darkness. But it was clearly different from the old world, and it was not uncommon to believe that people who thought differently or behave differently than us, A bunch of idiots who don't know life. [...] People we disagree with slow cease to be seen as those among them usWho are wandering. They become aliens. individual for whom there is no 1 us places. Unbelievers who must be converted or fought. Barbarians whose place is beyond civilization. They become enemies. [...] Meanwhile, it's not all that simple. [...] I sincerely hope that this book will let us to adopt an attitude that will aid us not to increase tension and polarisation (The War of Ideas, pp. 5-14).

As a consequence of this introduction, Pękala proposes a variety-focused way of conducting talks that would let people active to discover the effects of socio-technical techniques involving commonly practiced language manipulation.

When it comes to polarisation and the formation of many social bubbles, the central issue and the most widely distributed issue seems to be the various proclamations on values. In the political dance of St.Vita, the slogans and slogans specified as "We cannot afford to take our values away", "God, Honor, Homeland", "Europe of Value" "European Community of Values", "It is about an global order based on values"...

Then possibly it would be worth to look at the book by the Swiss author, Andreas Urs Sommer, p. Values. Why we request them, even though they're gone Tadeusz Zatorski, Library of the Kronos Quarterly, Warsaw 2021, covered the preface and the preface. It seems that fewer people focus on the meaning of “value”. Sommer writes:

Everyone's talking about values. But no 1 seems to wonder what it means, what values they are. This book wants to make up for both negligencees (Values..., p. 10).

A small further:

It seldom happens that something seems to be as undoubtedly as values, if as circumstantially it has the importance of the frequency with which we relate in regular communication to them. [...] erstwhile we look at the values, we besides do it to explain,
(c) they be at all, and if so, they be at j a k i s p o s o s s s (J., p. 11).

And then again:

No 1 can deny that people value certain lives through their actions, thinking, feeling. Live means value – means: put 1 over the other. We value situations, offers, people, experiences. These valuations are an expression of preference, reflect the views and interests of those who value. These valuations find their lives. The value in the simple sense does not imply the above organized consciousness, nor is it circumstantial human. [...] Valuation means assessing, valuing what is, and what could be. The value implies comparison. Even if I value something completely negative, I do it by comparing it with something else, with the things I value, and I value it highly. You don't request a language or a presumptuous typical for a valuation act. homo they are willing to delegate only to themselves, namely “reason”. The value of a cat can be as well as I can – differentiating these values each time depending on what in our so different lives seems to matter. [...] Valuation is indeed a fundamental function of life, but in no way does it yet imply that there is simply a “obligation” abstraction called “value” or appropriate abstractions in the plural (v., pp. 12-14).

In any case, there will be area in Sommer's book for both questions about “ontology”, that is, the way in which values exist, as well as “oncology” which concerns their understanding, and besides for the mention to the demands of “freedom from value” that were formulated in the early 20th century. There will besides be comments on institutions in which certain values are entered, as well as on papers specified as European Convention on Human Rights 1950 or the preamble Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union 2000. This allows us to reflect on historical changes in human ideas about human dignity, freedom or solidarity and consequently besides on what is happening on the Polish-Belarusian border...

In this context, any would like to remember a small book Maria Janion p. “Will you know what you have experienced” (Sic!, Warsaw 1996) and its reading are treated as an impulse and as a starting point for further reflection on signs of a paradigm change defining our collective identity after the epochal overturn of 1989. Janion made her comments on the subject 30 years ago. A lot has changed since then...

The book title of prof. Janion obliges and encourages that as usual at the end of the next batch of these Entries, to draw attention to the issue of education – no uncertainty fundamental due to all the problems described above. In this book, prof. Vaclav Havl and his “dream for Czechoslovakia” are mentioned. The words related to him: “The highest value to me is not the state, but man and humanity.” It should be decisive, Janion will write, the discipline of “aware endurance of one's own existence”, or a kind of vaccine – with certain assumptions that can be distributed at school. Vaccines treated as a safeguard against participation in various political dance slops besides erstwhile encouraged by winged words covering the real interests of those who arrange specified dances.