Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Good evening!

Tonight I'd like to share with you a short video made by journalists from Gazeta Wyborcza. It's an experiment made on a group of French people met by accident on a street. The reporters wanted to see their reactions to the most recent situation in Poland. First of all, they made them guess what country they were describing: they mentioned that it's a country were the deputies work and vote during the night, where the government wants to impose new regulations on the Constitutional Tribunal, mass media, access to the personal information about the civils in the Internet and to restrict civil liberties. The interviewed people were, at least, surprised, when they found out that this actually happens in... Poland.

You can see it here:

I'm not surprised, but I do feel terrified. I'm terrified because of the things made by our government, but I'm even more terrified when I realize that this is the result of a democratic decision of the Polish people. At the very beginning I had the feeling that the reality is a surreal dream of Luis Buñuel. Now I know that I was wrong - it's not Luis Buñuel, it's Michael Haneke, who always makes me want to escape from this world as far as possible, so that I not have to participate in it.

If you think that I'm getting boring with my complaining about the same thing all the time - you're right. But, come on, is it possible not to complain? I don't think so anymore.

At least we have music. This time - Janis Joplin, who would be 73 today. 
Enjoy!
 

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