Recently, individual wrote that the Polish left “looks”, that is, unquestionably trusted EU bureaucracy, and the right – American. As it is rightly stated, both attitudes are a "expression of powerlessness and confusion" (M. Zakrzewski, Z. Janowski, Poland at the turn, DGP No. 76 of 2025).
With satisfaction, it is worth noting that in the pages of specified an ideologically concrete medium, which present is waged by (his) war against Russia under the delusional American leadership, there are specified statements. Conversion is never besides late, especially erstwhile it comes to conversion according to Polish interests.
For years, I have been calling for the request to make its own diagnosis and forecasts, which are neither "pro-European" nor "pro-American" or even "pro-Russian". It is worth considering where our Polish “lost” comes from (for over 5 years I have been utilizing this term, characterizing the political and economical diagnoses in force in Poland only so as not to offend anyone with literality – we will call it stupidity 1 day). There's quite a few reasons, so I'm just gonna talk about the most crucial ones.
First of all, people who have been doing this for decades by propaganda radio broadcasts with “Free Europe” at the head; their heads are filled with idealized but at the same time stupid images of “West”, especially “States”, which have nothing to do with reality. These people truly believed that this West is ruled by taboos of officials who only defend "universal liberal values" and sacrifice everything to defend "every man's pen of the land of the free world." The most interesting thing is that these people besides include us in this "free world", due to the fact that American troops are stationed here (in turn).
Secondly, the second group of curators of this "lost" are paid lobbyists who fool us professionally. Until recently, we did not realise the state of corruption of the "opinitive environments" until president Donald Trump cut down government funds that had been going on for decades. It turns out that telling nonsense about, for example, a "strategic alliance", which (as if) has long connected us to Washington, was at least a alternatively profitable activity for some. It is most likely not better for European propaganda. For respective decades I have been dealing with professional taxes and I know of the legislative swamp in this area, where manufacture lobbyists, taxation evasion businesses and... incompetence rule. For any time, however, I was naively convinced that it was an enclave of pathology, and somewhere else it was much better. I think I've been incorrect all along.
The 3rd group of depositors of this confusion are average cyclical and career leaders, who always gotta flow with the mainstream. They can always be counted on and reborn in all generation. I remember a "private" conversation with a liberal who erstwhile harassed the request for "tax simplification", especially income tax. Nomen omen, he could not be suspected of deficiency of cognition about this substance – hence my cognitive dissonance: since you are not a dilettante and you know there is no simple income tax, why are you telling these farts? He told me honestly (thank you very much for this): in this way he gets – as he himself claimed – “entering mainstream media”, due to the fact that – as you can see – stupidity is there at a price.
Anyone who is opposed to the curators of this "lost" will be excluded from the media circulation, and now absolutely attacked under the pretext of "fighting with misinformation".
We don't break hands: stupidity doesn't gotta win. The abolition of “Free Europe” and the deficiency of funds for propaganda will consequence in a number of followers shrinking to insignificant size and careers joining the fresh correctness.
Prof. Witold Modzelewski
Think Poland, No. 19-20 (11-18.05.201025)
