Cultivated land

In those days, they will no longer say: "The fathers sour grapes have set the children's teeth on edge." (Ezekiel 18:2). Instead, everyone will die for their own sin; whoever eats sour grapes, their own teeth will be set on edge. (Jeremiah 31:29-30) Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it (Proverbs 22:6). In a loose Serbian translation, the summary of the biblical quotes would be: "My son, do not be like your parents." Everyone who as a child ran away from home actually had this in mind. The brave slogan of the alter ego of a rebellious, protesting note of a young spirit to the neglected heritage and environment. Saint Simeon, Stefan Nemanja, directed his ruling and military potentials towards his sons, who founded the Serbian state. Someone had to build spirituality as well. Young Rastko bravely distinguished himself in his family, where at that given moment it was considered a "failure." Civilization and civility are different concepts. Civility prevailed, and both are where there is harmony and life, not perversion and "gursuzluk." Subcultures and art, as alternative contradictions to other forms of the system in society when these fail, are not contradictions to themselves (with the exception of the play: "Zoran Đinđić"). There are also such extremes that are the torchbearers of the end of postmodernism as we knew it. Paul Tillich, speaking about the end of the modern period and the spiritual anxiety it brings, finds courage as a remedy. He says: "At the end of ancient civilization, ontological anxiety is prevalent, at the end of the Middle Ages, moral anxiety, and at the end of the modern period, spiritual anxiety." The roots of crises and divisions are in the spiritual aspect. Thus, their solutions for a long-term understanding of being can only seek an answer in spiritual recapitulation. Courage as a means of orientation can adequately serve - "courage to be" as opposed to "courage of despair." If it weren't for courage, Rastko would not have become St. Sava, and there would be no Serbian Church today. Courage, according to Tillich, demands looking beyond the very being that transcends divisions. Theology is not counseling or mere kerygma (proclamation) but resolve and self-sacrifice in the community. The true Belgrade rocker, rebel, and bohemian Dušan Prelević Prele accurately said at the core: "Tuition is fine, but without manly courage, there is nothing!" The misfortune of society, on the other hand, is not only in illiteracy, lack of information, or grammatical errors, but in a general crisis of spirit, creativity, and perverted topicality. Thus, in an attempt to revive the cult Broadway hippie play "Hair" from Atelje 212, Prelević, as its producer, told the young generation back in '93: "I have never in my life seen a more corrupt generation." Perhaps the same could have been said about him in the period of 1969. The conclusion is that every generation seeks its escape from problems and its own solutions. Some saw the way out in communes and movements, some in Eastern spirituality, and some in the Lord Christ Himself. Student protests are nothing new and have been actively ongoing since Vietnam, with more or less deviations. What makes them current is the worm of corruption. One of the greatest philosophers of today, Alain Badiou, simply explained: "The threads of power, authority, and decision-making are still held in the hands of the elderly, but only up to a certain age. Beyond that limit, they are abandoned, despised, forgotten, and left to die "in peace." What happens within the confines of those "elderly hands," however, is essentially a convulsive fear of youth. The reason for this is that youth is antinomian yet similar to capitalism - something unpredictable. The difference is that ideologies cannot easily be patched onto youth's new dress. Many changes that would, according to someone's logic, interest them, are met with complete apathy. There is no longer a defined boundary, or as Badiou would say, an "initiation" (moment) that precisely determines when someone, being young, is at that very moment "mature." In Bosnia, there is a saying for a girl who knows how to "cook" a pie: She can get married. Behind this lies an ideology that initiates youth, according to an old recipe, to forcibly enter the world of those who have broken with them and determined them. We see that this does not always have to be the rule. The current inevitability is that in the conglomerate of sociopolitical changes and relations in the world, Serbia and Georgia, as predominantly Orthodox countries, are troubled for several reasons. Some of them are: 1. A part of the people and students do not identify with the state of affairs; 2. The maturation of a generation of parents and young people who perceive the "corruption" of their past and failures through their own eyes and the eyes of their children (which can lead to a rethinking of the system of unification and infection of society, on any basis, which should in no way be considered a priori bad); 3. The defense of the right to life, given by God once and for all, which represents an unshakeable rock of over-demands that, if threatened, diminished, neglected, or challenged, cannot be extinguished by any promise and fleeting means. That is why the Lord Christ as the Messiah and the fullness of the Law and the Prophets teaches us when addressing the opposition of His time: "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people's bones and all uncleanness. And you say, 'If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.'" (Matthew 23:27-30). Through synchronous and antiphonal unity and concord, the two wings of the Serbian people will have a sure flight without the bloody tails of the past. Božidar Vasiljević