W The fresh notes I'm working on right now, I wrote that in the latter, whose action, in contrast to those late released, is to take place in Poland, I intend to address respective issues that warm up our alleged (restrictedly intended) public opinion to red. I besides mentioned the fear of falling into immediate publicity at the expense of literaryism. And then I thought, that before posting the promised passage of this, which is inactive in spite of the roaring, books, it is worth developing the question of the presence of politics in my work.
Especially since, as I have stressed many times in various places, I have returned to the practice of "pure" literature after nearly a decade of working, in part besides professional, public studies. Which period – whether I want it or not – left in me and in what I am writing, its unobtrusive trace; it has irreversibly influenced my perception of reality and hence of culture.
Recently, this subject came up in a conversation with a friend from a journalistic time, who asked me if I was inactive curious in these things, since my Facebook profile, on which I regularly shared opinions about the track, has been persistently silent for respective months. Indeed, I closed the profile, due to the fact that erstwhile I tried to decision it from political to literary, it turned out that nobody was interested. The fact that most of the “friends” I had gathered there began to observe me due to my views; some, due to the fact that they agreed with them, and others, due to the fact that they could not last the day to make me not aware of what a fool I am. I admit that I was a small tired of it – which was besides not without meaning in the decision to retreat from commentatory.
Besides... well, discussing politics in a country where any people vote for Tusk, having in a pump what and how it will actually do, as long as it does not regulation the Duck, and others beat the alarm all time the "Election" kicks out new, increasingly curiosive, rockets against the Church, is... well, most likely not just for me. Let stachanists like you do that. RAZ, people with The Jagiellonian Club is New Deal and adolescences of publicist stars Jutuba like Louis Loop is Simon the Cracker. I have neither scope nor self-denial to build it, nor, frankly, desire.
I never felt like I was a flesh and blood publicist. I jumped into this train from the planet of literature – a small due to the fact that I was disappointed by the failure of the debut (it may besides partially explain the enigmaticness of the early phase of my activity – I guess I just had to someway vent frustration), and a little, due to the fact that I truly understood a fewer things and felt obliged to fight against what I thought (and mostly still) was wrong.
Anyway, this part of my life is over. I summarized it in “From the Confessions of the Pocket Radical” And with the feeling of going back to my roots, I took care of my stories. Although, contrary to appearances, it was not that easy. Old habits die hard, and not adequate that I have a polematic temperament, I cannot yet – or even would not like to – realize any of the issues that have been bothering me for so long and again become a 4th of pure forms, on a good origin indifferent to the surrounding reality. After all, movement always takes place forward. And reality itself is not peculiarly conducive to escapism today.
From the split, I was yet cured by 1 of my next fascinations with those who now support what any with a full legitimate snack call “smiling Poland”. I felt that with only 1 life and limited time, I should redirect all my energy to writing alternatively of being so foolishly distracted. Let others fight human ignorance – more predestined. But does that mean I broke up with politics? Well, not at all. What a friend mentioned earlier found erstwhile I tried to explain to him how I interpret movies.
Let's start with the simplest thing: knowing politics. Most people realize it very shallowly. For them, politics are politicians and their gameplays, or their own regular networking. But all you gotta do is look at any encyclopedia or dictionary definition of this word to see that it is much more. Even more than the eloquent slogans of wise care for the common good. Politics in its broadest sense is simply an influence on the collective, shaping it, giving it direction.
Today – and in fact for a very long time – the main political front does not run through parliamentary halls or secluded cabinets of presidents, prime ministers or ministers. It is besides not contrary to what can be heard more and more often, a large business – with a peculiar focus on global corporations, which (here full agreement with supporters of this view) have grown so strong that they are able to dictate their agenda to the full states. This front is – attention, there is simply a cliché! – culture. It is in it that ways of reasoning about the world, attitudes, lifestyles, and values are forged. Whoever holds the control of culture has power. And here, all in white, I enter modestly.
So no, I didn't cut myself out of politics. I've only changed my focus and methods. I am inactive a political animal as hell, including an urgent follow-up of what is happening in the politics of the most momentarily understood, only that alternatively of burning time and energy into idle debates about issues that I am incapable to say anything that others have not already said before me – frequently wiser and more insightful – I like to do what I utilized to do, but with years of sitting in a treadmill knowing that it is besides an area of expression and abrasion of ideas.
Every fresh I've always published since I left the open press has this dunk. Even written for eminently escapist reasons ‘Complete’, due to the fact that even in it, under the mask of playing thriller, I have struggled with something beyond pure form – specifically with the unhealthy fascination of crimes and criminals present in pop culture today, which besides has a political aspect, due to the fact that it talks about how through aestheticisation of evil contemporary culture cripples us ethically, stuns us with higher values. W "Second Commandment" In turn, I wondered – already full intentionally – about the consequences of blurring the division into good and evil.
‘Inevitable’ It was political, too. possibly even the most recent. After all, there I was dealing with the increasing phenomenon of social engineering and its apogee in the form of what is called a pandemic. This book was not only about the subject, but besides – and possibly above all – about bringing it into circulation; that I wanted to convince those who decided to scope for it – whether it would be 3 people, 30 or 3 1000 – that mass submission to Western societies of covid hysteria was 1 of many symptoms of dying in front of our eyes of democracy and a smooth transition to the impersonating neofeudism.
Yeah, I truly thought about it, writing! And I truly wanted to put this diagnosis in the fresh – even if my first goal was simply to tell an interesting story. It is besides crucial that the figure trying unsuccessfully inform humanity about the dark future of the seer, as well as the time and place of the main action. I chose them not only due to the fact that I like sensational films of the 1980s, but besides due to the fact that the period of transition from the bipolar planet to the Fukuyam "end of history" was a peculiar minute in which the direction of the improvement of our civilisation was weighed. Yeah, I took it all into account, building a plot.
And it is no different in the case of “In Purple”. The decision to place a game in the United States in the early 1990s was not just a strictly aesthetic choice, due to the fact that I like these climates. Well, I like it, and it played its part, too, but I feel that sympathy for circumstantial reasons. I believe that in the last decade of the 20th century the "end of history" was a fact, and Western liberal (then truly liberal in the best sense of the word) democracy, with the US as a global gendarme, was experiencing its boom. And by referring to this fact, I want to draw attention to this fact, rekindle this spirit in readers.
Well, actually, all my immersion in American pop culture is kind of political. Which, by the way, I realized comparatively recently. due to the fact that for me, it is besides a kind of declaration, on which the side of the fresh bipolarity that I am creating in front of us and which I want to strengthen by strengthening its cultural code. Yes, if I have the choice of America present – with all its tormenting weaknesses – and dystopian China, which is increasingly becoming an inspiration for the fresh monarchy class, I choose Uncle John.
And erstwhile (if?) will I yet get to the book about the organic relation of horror with Christianity – due to the fact that somewhere in distant plans I truly have something like this – it will besides be an action in my most fundamental political being. And it will be, due to the fact that I will effort to show that Christianity is inactive in our collective consciousness much more than many of the bakers of the fresh feudalism, for which, as for all totalitarians, it is the main enemy; and by this, of course, I will want to strengthen its position in civilizational debate. And that's how it works.
Of course, it's not like I think about it all the time erstwhile I tap my keyboard. I don't keep breaking my head like it's a part of paper. I'm just aware of that. It works in the background. Therefore, I would not describe myself as a programme author engaged – although I do not hide that especially during the time of the creation of the Second Commandment, I was tempted to put on this patch and to build on it an image. If anything, I'm just individual who realized there's always a deeper message behind all form. And that it influences. Anyway, I find these mechanisms fascinating. Technically and practically.
Not to mention the fact that this ad hoc policy is besides very much in the field of my writing interests. Beletristy, however, has the advantage over essay or column, that through the artistic grasp of the subject and the resulting greater flexibility can afford more. It can make metaphors that are able to stimulate reflection on a more abstract plane than an analysis of actual phenomena.
