Piskorski: Realism requires sacrifices

The divisions in modern politics are becoming simpler and clearer. We erstwhile debated the shades of gray, reasoning about circumstantial issues, abrading in program and fighting for arguments.

However, all of this took place in the context of the free public debate, which for years was an axiom, the foundation of the strategy in Poland, at least declaratively. There is now a shortage of area for any nuances and refined detailing of the discussion. We have about 2 political currents: advocating escalation in global relations threatening straight the outbreak of planet War III and opposing anti-war current based on realistic analysis, rational premises and natural self-preservation instinct. This first iron grip holds power throughout almost Europe, but Hungary or Slovakia. The second is in a strong minority, regularly defiled and defiled in mass media. We are so dealing with a pro-war majority with all available instruments of influence and an anti-war minority, pushed into the niche and in this niche in all ways.

This simple division is besides visible in Poland, possibly even more than in many another European countries. Regardless of the squad in charge, we are dealing with lemming syndrome that accelerates their run to the cliff. If these lemmings were moving alone, half the poverty. Everyone has the right to live their lives, even if they want to end up with spectacular suicide. The problem is, however, that lemmings are being dragged along by a cart in which the remainder of the society sits – and citizens who support the war and powerfully argue it, as well as those who are usually uninterested in the planet and who have no opinion on it.

The militarisation of the European Union under the leadership of the remaining geopolitical perfidy, or UK, is taking place at an alarming rate. The tiny groups protesting this phenomenon are being pushed to the full margin, and already on this margin, further from the light of the cameras, are being decimated by formal and informal repression.

Half of poorness if this call and repressiveness is handled by various NGOs and foundations seated on government and global grants. Worse, however, erstwhile this begins to constitute the right existence of government institutions. American mccarthysm has been described by any policy psychologists in terms of pathological phenomena, affecting psychopathic and threatening surroundings. Subsequent commissions set up by and for well-paid government officials are besides included in this stream. Their members can not only publically vent their boundless belief in conspiracy theories, even recently, that behind exploding rubber dolls from sex shops stands the Kremlin. They can besides sanction, punish, reprisal and close, utilizing the services at their disposal, long ago completely insane. And at that point, the situation becomes dangerous, resembling a celebrated saying about a monkey with a razor. We can replace razors with bans, warrants, fines, arrests and arrests, that is, instruments far from even sharpened razors more dangerous.

This is, of course, about the activity of the Committee on Influence Examination, which was set up alternatively of the committee to examine the influences of the same predecessors. In addition, people who gain respective 1000 zlotys in it not only do not know the substance to which they were called. They show so much carelessness that they condemn to ridicule any state institution behind them. Their actions besides lead to the fact that even the most convinced realists present are transforming themselves into romantics crying out in the wilderness, inactive believing that the ever-wide ellipse of moronization is someway interrupted. The realism of “Polish Thoughts” so requires real sacrifices in these days and entails a large risk.

Even realists, however, can be idealists erstwhile their actions are guided by a clearly defined goal: to observe the next manifestation of the suicidal tendencies of the Polish nation, or actually the political class at its head. There is no way out – we must repeat any simple truths, even if we come to pay even more.

Mateusz Piskorski

Think Poland, No. 17-18 (27.04-4.05.2025)