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E10. Helter-Skelter (50+ Little /_Sonjotkas_/ With Comments) -- Copy Me Please -- in English

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    This is English translation of poetically-prosaic collection of 50+ shortened (to 11 lines) sonnets, which are spitting at our messed transition to democracy, that for 30 years can't finish, with many analyses and propositions. Translated exactly is the translat/_able_/, i.e. prosaic, part, where the verses are retold without rhyme, but they take only about 10 % of the material. Yet here the book is in full!

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===>*_HELTER-SKELTER (50+ Little /_Sonjotkas_/ With Comments)_*
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==>*_Jotata - Atatoj, 2020_*
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-->[ -_Abstract_-: This is English translation of poetically-prosaic collection of 50+ slightly shortened (to 11 lines) sonnets called /_Sonjotkas_/, that are spitting at our messed transition to democracy, that for 30 years still can't finish, with analyses of bunch of questions, and with propositions for bettering of the messes (if it is read carefully). Translated exactly is only the translat/_able_/, i.e. the prosaic, part, where the verses are retold without rhyme, but they take only about 10 % of the whole material, so that in this way it is rendered in a perfect for initial acquaintance form. In the original the title is "Driving through the millet" what is idiom for doing something utterly non-carefully, but I hope that for English reading audience "Helter-Skelter" sounds good enough. The manner of the verses is free-boulevard, with Botev's sarcasm in many places, and of the comments is philosophically deep, i.e. this is not plebeian negation of everything, yet the book is addressed exactly to the common people, hoping that they will try to show a bit of reason, before to come to nihilism and run abroad. Because the democracy, however bad it is, /_can_/ be bettered from below, if the population succeeds to show that it has at least a tiny amount of brains. ]
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-->[ The idea for -_illustration_- of the cover is the following: a chariot drawn by three ... /_lions_/ (they a present on our coat of arms), which goes through a field sown with millet (according with the title in Bulgarian and the corresponding idiom for destroying in a rush of the done), so that it has to be seen that this is millet, but the whole chariot is not necessary to show, only the 3 lions, part of the seat of coachman with him, and raised in the air whip. This has to be with dimensions 450 x 450 pixels, because I use 525 x 725 for the very cover and then multiply by 3 (where necessary), and above is the title and the author, and below is this picture in a frame. ]
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==>*_CONTENTS_*
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-->Beginning with Sonjotka 00-th
-->Sonjotka 01-st
-->Sonjotkas 02 - 10
-->Sonjotka 11-th
-->Sonjotkas 12 - 20
-->Sonjotka 21-st
-->Sonjotkas 22 - 30
-->Sonjotka 31-st
-->Sonjotkas 32 - 40
-->Sonjotka 41-st
-->Sonjotkas 42 - 50
-->Sonjotka 51-st
-->Post Scriptum
-->Post Post Scriptum
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==>*_BEGINNING_*
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==>*_SONJOTKA 00-th_*
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-->Amidst our stupidity solid and dense
-->a next thought patriotic shined
-->in the head of Jotata, to serve
-->jokes cheerful and compromising.
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-->/_Sonjotkas _/light, and with comments
-->about our eternal messes democratic
-->prepares he, and will throw them out in a jist
-->before guys, children, virgins, or ripe women.
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-->Because those, who by us remain,
-->can't continue for ever in this deadlock,
-->they must pose questions before themselves.
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-->Comment: Well, this will be also like Foreword to the collection of verses, because here everything looks in the same way: a verse, a comment, and again the same. The idea about this book as if jumped in my head in the end of 2019, in any case before the finishing of my "Mammyland", yet from the very beginning of 2020 I occupied myself with another book (and under a different name), and had also a pair of other things on which I worked, so that at that time I dropped the idea (with just one verse for a sample), but around the "Great Day" (how we call the Easter, and of the great 2020 year -- which, as it turns out, will now be remembered chiefly with the Corona pandemic) I decided at once to switch to the "Millet", at least as verses. For some days I wondered how to proceed, either to comment at the moment of writing of the verse, or at the end after all verses, and I choose to finish first all verses and then to make the easiest, the comments, not for other reasons but because at my 70 years I often forget things, and if the work will continue for a pair of months I will begin to repeat myself, more so /_without_/ whatever plan for the collection, just so ... spitting on the move, from my heart! And it turned out that everything went well, where I wrote 52 * 11 = more than 550 lines for about only /_10 days_/, in numbers and words, a crazy marathon, and now I have only to write all comments, where I will have no problems, just that they require time.
-->OK, and why I named them Sonjotkas? Well, because they are like the sonnets, but I have cut out one of the triplet, so that they are written very easy, just so, until I scratch, how is said, my dick, and at the same time there is some "jota" in them, plus that they are shortened [because the ending -'ka' in Bulgarian is for making of diminutives in feminine]. In general, the name turned out to be a bijou, and the title, "Through the millet" [more or less like "Helter-skelter", something done in a rush, crushing other things that have been done before], is a bomb [how we say], this is perfectly suitable for our absolutely incompetent, vulgar, and so on transition to the democracy. Then the form of the verse is very simple, if we mark the rhymes with Latin capital letters then the sonnet is such: AABB CCDD EFGEFG, or ABAB CDCD EEEFFF, although there are other variations; so, and my sonjotkas are AABB CDCD EEE, what is very good, because this final triple gives didactical, instructive sounding at the end, something like Spanish "ol``e", and the change of rhyme in both couplets freshens the things, shuffles them.
-->[ And now it becomes necessary to provide a way for citing of Bulgarian, as well from other languages, words, and in the manner how they are pronounced, because I use many jargon words, modify and invent new ones, and so on. So here the key point is one widely met by us vowel, which is like in your "girl" (only not elongated), and which I will mark as 'y', what may be called /_i-bulgaro_/, instead or i-greco. Then with single quotes I will give the reading. Also 'j' will be used for softening of the consonants, while 'h' will be for hardening, and together with this 'j' will be used for making of diphthongs (like in may-'maj'), and 'h' for prolongation of vowels; plus that the usage of 'ch, sh, zh' must be obvious. What, apart of everything else, says that the /_sonjotka_/ is read exactly so, 'sonjotka' (because I am surely /_not_/ 'Dzhota' but 'Jota', how is the very letter 'j'. ]
-->Also I decided that the length of them (with the comments), has to be such, that they can enter into one double sheet, what in .doc format by me is a lying (landscape) A4 sheet, divided in 2 columns imitating pages, and the whole amount of the comments will be about 3.5 KV chars, at maximum 4 with the verse [but here this may turn to be a bit longer, because of my additional explanations for the readers in English in such square brackets like these].
-->What else? Ah, about the topics and the style. Well, when from the /_highest_/ state instances they pay no attention at me, then what else remains to me except to spit at them, what they wholly /_deserve_/ (you look at the notorious Open Letter). /_All_/ of them up to a single instance, in the Parliament, in the Presidency, in the media (newspapers and TVs), and in other places (even a pair of Churches). Because, look here, if I only spat at them, then surely would have found at least one of them to snap at me, but given that I argue in such details, and in 4 languages, and proposed them a new party, NAPUK, and elaborated a bunch of things, then nobody dares to say even "ah", or "but" to me. But let him (or her, or it) try, this will just give me new material for discussing, and for /_exposing_/ us in bad light before the world, in foreign languages, because, as I said this several times, the weaker has no other weapon left except the irony and sarcasm, and before as wider as he can make it audience; when in my country nobody wants to publish me (even the media!), then I do this abroad, I have become an Internet /_emigrant_/, in order to maintain my tone in my old years, so that I am thankful to the people, to our nice, barbarian little nation, at the very top, yet also at the bottom, of course. Well, enough for the beginning, and I have also filled my allowed space.
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-->Apr - May, 2020, Sofia, '/_Bly_/garia', European Union (at its end)
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==>*_SONJOTKA 01-st_*
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-->Why did You, God, give birth to me in Bulgaria,
-->and when You did, then why did not put reins on me?
-->Because people with conscience like me, miserable,
-->must be used else to cleanse ... toilets!
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-->This can be a toilet of the Parliament,
-->where can smell of ... mint/* --
-->because they cheat us, or of the President,
-->who drinks tee with guests, and then ... pisses.
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-->But what can one like me do alone?
-->The democracy met by us with problems,
-->because ours are Augean stables.
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-->[ * Here hides a pun in Bulgarian, because the herb mint is 'menta' and to deceive is 'mentja', and the Parliament is also some 'menta'-mint.]
-->Comment: Exactly so, if I have not been born in Bulgaria, would I have begun to spit at it? And now I have my spittoon, I beg your pardon, what is a /_cultural_/ utensil, from somewhere before a pair of centuries, when people liked to spit at the floor (most often after they have chewed tobacco) -- so that then and now people in most cases fight with the /_consequences_/ (the spitting), not with the causes (not to chew tobacco). And because Bulgaria as a whole, from the top and to the bottom (although about the bottom I do not speak here, yet I have some experiences), has insulted me, absolutely undeserved (read my Letter, you can choose a language, maybe in order to exercise it, because my translations are pretty accurate and belletristic, if we don't count one or another typing error), so I return it back to it, everything is right. And don't forget also that I, as having lived on the East and on the West, for more than a pair of months, can compare the things, I am not some John Doe [we say 'Sulju or Pulju', what is not exactly Doe, it is a nincompoop] (if you happen to know him, because I have only heard about him).
-->Yet I not only spit, I also /_praise_/, because, look, you see that I deserve to cleanse toilets, but nobody sends me to such work (I personally suppose that, if they send me to such place, they must then also feed me, and my daily ration, together with the medical and other cares, will surely exceed my still /_under_/ 4 bus tickets daily pension, to the moment of writing this), but in some countries they /_have_/ sent intellectuals to do exactly this, in one China, f.ex., neither in concentration camp, how have done some other countries before certain time. So that I, naturally, thank really knee-deep for the cares of our fatherland to such unnecessary (obviously, for what else are they good, except to spit?) intellectuals.
-->Then the /_Talking House_/, sorry, Parliament, obviously, is engaged with producing and spreading of 'menti'-lies, at least in a figurative meaning this is clear. And I would have cleansed with pleasure the toilets there, yet the people don't take me (because I may begin to spit also in the toilet bowls there, could one be sure that I will not do this, if I will have this opportunity). And not only this, but, from the point of view of my educational qualification, with my 2 and 1/2 tertiary educations, got from 3 different countries (to say nothing about my 3 and 1/2 /_foreign_/ languages, which I use in the moment -- because the money is /_decreased_/ proportionally with the knowledge, right?), not only I will be dissatisfied with these kind and cheerful (i.e. grinning on their photos) elected persons, but they alone also (because they probably have on the average less than 1 higher education, they have to be people from the masses). With what I do /_not_/ want to say that we /_must_/ be governed by intelligent persons, God keep me away from such capital error, under democratic conditions the common people can choose only persons with /_their_/ intellectual level (or, occasionally, lower), no, I am just heaping words, in order to fill the already set by me volume of comment.
-->And what concerns the President, whoever he can be in the moment, I don't know him at all (and also do not ... /_want_/ to know him, because I /_don't_/ vote, there's nobody for whom to vote, but let this be our secret), so that I have no intentions to insult him, I simply suppose that he can't drink only champagne and cognacs, this can endanger seriously his liver, neither only coffees (this burdens the heart), while cups with tea are healthy, as well with natural like with verbal, especially the latter. And I mention the word "pisses", because it is used by our whole population, and if I say dehydrates or defecates then my common readers can not understand me, and imagine that I say something insulting for him, but in this way it is clear that in the natural necessities there is nothing insulting.
-->And I am writing all this in order to help our democracy, because it, really, met with serious difficulties, like also those of us who are leaving (have left) it.
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==>*_SONJOTKA 02-nd_*
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-->Our country was not gilded,
-->but it was also not much bad,
-->and the older brother with a best eye
-->looked at us: B/_o_/lgaria, oh, well!
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-->Because is clear: alphabet, language,
-->with Cyrillic letters 'zh', 'ch', 'sh' -- bijou!
-->More liberal, warmer, like in a ... slipper
-->one enters there -- /_that's what I'll tell you_/ [in Russian].
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-->Yet we have demo-soared,
-->have turned our sights to the West,
-->and have landed directly in the ... mud!
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-->Comment: Well, this is something that all of us know, but I have not said that will write only unknown things, I am /_cheering_/ the people like folk's bard, so to say (I create myself /_image_/, because the entire Bulgarian public turned its back at me, so that I am just forced to /_whiten_/ myself somehow, be it even with jokes), and for this reason sometimes I can squeeze some funny word here and there for the sake of rhyme.
-->So that our country was not, and as if has never been gilded (I beg priest Paisius of Hilendar [he has written one History Slavonic-Bulgarian in 18-th century] to excuse me), but was with the /_highest_/ reputation among the Russians, what is impossible for me not to know, because I have lived for 4 and something years there back in my time; we were not able, and have never been able to compare us with the socialist countries from Central Europe, like Poland, Czechoslovakia, not to mention the GDR, we were better only than Romania (yet I may be wrong, because in some aspects we were better, but in others were wide behind them -- f.ex., they made personal cars, while we have never managed to do this), but the Russians simply respected us much higher than the others. Anyway, as I said, this is obvious, because only in Bulgaria there were /_no_/ Russian troops, but to be looked at with the best eyes by the older brother is not without significance.
-->Then this, about the alphabet, it is clear, and even can be (and must be) stated that we use it much /_better_/ than them, we have 2 letters less, have clearer phonetics, and so on (I suppose that will come again to this question), and, if you will excuse my strange rhyming of language with slipper [because it is so, in Bulgarian the words are 'ezik' and 'terlik'], then by us is, naturally, warmer, our country was more free than their, Russia was more lumbering, more inert (due to its enormous size). So, and that from time to time appear some Russism, well, Jotata is such guy, Russo/_phile_/, he is ready to stick to it like a spread with butter piece of bread [what is a pun of a kind, or telling that this -/_phile_/ is the same like in our 'filia'-piece-of-bread, or also Latin /_filial_/] (I mean, when it falls on the ground, what, as you know, happens always with the buttered side to the floor). (And if you can not grasp why I stress with italic on some words here, you can wait to appear the prepared by me humorous etymological book "Jotolmach", or something of the kind [it is already published but in Bulgarian], where I explain a heap of words from many languages.)
-->But we, naturally (what else can be expected from a barbarian, sorry, nation), decided already with the first steps of our democracy, to turn our backs exactly to the Russians (about what I will continue in the next "point"), and headed to the West, with brains /_pecked_/ out by /_gulls_/ from UDF [the notorious right-wing even not party but coalition], applying the model of judgment of the frog from that fable (or just saying), that when the bull is strong and shod, then it is necessary for the frog also to be shod, and with the new (bull-) shoes it will become strong like it (or, rather, him). I beg your pardon for this worn-out comparison, yet it is such only for me, and to the young generation, which has /_no basis_/ for comparison, this may not be known, they may think that it /_must_/ have been done so, that we have to look at the West (for to avoid the Sun shining in our eyes, ha-ha).
-->And looking at the West, and aiming only at it (even if it is rotten etc.), we, quite naturally, landed directly in the mud, plopped there, and moved neither deeper (not that this was necessary), nor out of it. What reminds me one old anecdote, that they have asked Radio Yerevan whether Bulgaria has reached the bottom, and the answer was that, yes, it has reached it, and then they asked further, well, and what does it now do, and the answer was that it ... keeps digging /_deeper_/! By us the sinking down into the mud /_stopped_/, really, with the introducing of our Money Board, yet as recompense for this it simply /_fixed_/ us at the bottom, froze our currency and the salaries and the evolution and everything that could be frozen, and become something like state within the state. So that here can't be said like in the proverb that there is no bad without good, no, here the /_opposite_/ is true, that there is no good without bad! Well, but if it has not happened so, then would have I had the possibility to spit at our democracy?
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==>*_SONJOTKA 03-rd_*
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-->To turn our backs exactly to the Russians
-->can happen only if we are silly nation!
-->Because they have not been neighbours to us,
-->to have the right to take them for ... man-eaters.
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-->They have wanted to set a foot, or a boot,
-->on this peninsula, like Khan Asparukh;
-->but why must they deprive themselves of this boon?
-->Yet they are not people deaf to our mourns.
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-->While the NATO-people, without bravery,
-->don't give a damn about our fate,
-->but we can't grasp this with our mug-heads!
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-->Comment: [Here are many jargon words and puns, so that the translation is not pretty accurate, yet the idea is this.] Well, here I will begin (for change) from the end, clearing first these underscores at the last but one line [which are not given here because of the pun], which have to be read as ... [and there is no need to do exact translation, because I use one idiom for this not giving a damn, which is literally that something is as if at a distance longer than the "cock", and so on].
-->Then I go to the beginning, but this is continuation of the theme from the previous sonjotka, which I will discuss also in the next one, namely that for to turn our backs to the Russians [who, in addition to the Slavonic language and alphabet, have freed us from the lasting nearly 5 centuries Turkish yoke -- this is not a trifle that can be forgotten] can be explained only if some gull has pecked out our brains, like our people say [this is an idiom]. But, look here, everything has to be observed in comparison and in this case we have at least at once ... crapped our pants [said circumstantially], became used to look at the West, and the further on the West the better, and more better if directly at the US (like some persons have done in the literal meaning, have gone and settled there, what, anyway, is something else, this can happen), while one Ukraine (that some underbred Bulgarians -- I just don't know why -- rhyme with the mother to be ... you know what [here the pun is that the curse ends on 'majna', what makes /_perfect_/ rhyme with 'Ukrajna']) decided to do this with a delay of 20 or so years. Id est, there are stupider nations than us (because, f.ex., we can list the Romanians, who are Latins, not Slavs, and who, as I said, did not give a damn about the Russian language, the Poles and the Czechs are Slavs, but they for more than 10 centuries do well with the Latin alphabet, so that are used to it, and they had also other reasons, the Stalinism there has wiped out, literally, a heap of people), we are not alone such silly guys and girls, the Ukrainians are worse than us, hurray, gentlemen democrats!
-->Yet don't forget that the neighbourship is very important, who live next one to the other (I wouldn't have said like ass to ass, no, this isn't in my style), they have about what to quarrel, have common border, it has always been moved, in this and in that direction, where our "border" with Russia was the Black Sea, that has always stood on its place. So that we have no reasons to take them for man-eaters [which word just rhymes with neighbours in Bulgarian] (or for wild Asian country, like I personally have /_heard_/ in my time to be called by one former colleague). Well, naturally, but exactly because we have no reasons to make some stupidity, exactly because of this it is /_interesting_/ to make it -- right? --, in order to assert ourselves, so to say, to react, to provide actions!
-->And that the Russians have wanted to set foot on the Balkan peninsula, like also the Turks, later the Germans, now the Americans, and so on, this is clear, but exactly this has done also one Asparukh /Isperikh quite a long time ago, so that this is in the nature of the things. Then that the Russians are not deaf for our mourns (like some other nation, the first NATO one, that does not give a damn about us) I think is obvious, even if they have fought for us not only out of fraternal feelings, but because some King of them has made them to, who has had some interests of his own, to set foot on this peninsula, to put at least his little toe of his left foot there. While when we are speaking about the NATO people we can without bravery say some bad word about our mugs [there is Bulgarian word of Turkish origin, I suppose, 'chutura'-empty-head, that rhymes perfectly with 'bravura'-bravery, as also with our 'kura'-cock], that continue not to /_boil_/ well [like we say]; even for whole 30 years our silly heads have succeeded to boil only to such extent as to grasp that there is no decent life in Bulgaria, and be it on the deep North, or deep South of Europe (about deep East there is no sense to speak, because in this direction we will come to the hateful wild Asian country, neither about deep West, because this is England, and it, I don't know why, but hates us most of all other European countries -- even the Germans, Frenchmen, Italians, the mere Greeks, no one else hates us as much as the Englishmen), where only it is possible, but to run, run, run, out of our country, at least if one is young or under 30 years. So that such things can be said about our mug-heads, when we consider the Russians for man-eaters (and so think /_all_/ right-wing parties).
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==>*_SONJOTKA 04-th_*
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-->When only a span of land is foreign
-->there is sharp necessity to defend it,
-->but to place troops in Bulgaria -- this has never
-->been the eager wish of the Russians.
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-->Yet in our land-span-or-spit
-->exist haters, lumpens, bastards,
-->who behave like hungry hounds,
-->and are named UDF-ers.
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-->For so many years they as if have died,
-->but have sown the spitting spirit,
-->that thrives up to the current days by us.
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-->Comment: Ah, sirs, here I will meet with bigger difficulties to blow soap bubbles for long time, because for me it is absolutely clear that this /_UDF ruined Bulgaria_/, and with this everything is said, but what am I to do, I must somehow make the promised in the beginning 3 KB, because otherwise you will give up reading me further, and how in the top nobody gives a damn about me, if also the masses begin not to read me, then what must I invent in order to make people read me? (Maybe I will be forced to write similar book in English, yet this will lead to /_nothing_/ good, because the people there have no idea about our lamentable condition, for them we are the next ... goose, whose feathers their governments are trying to pluck. [Yet, as you see, I am doing now exactly this, giving also relatively good explanations about our plights])
-->So that I want to say that even on a miserable span of land, where nothing grows (like some island in the far North or South, like the Falklands, f.ex.), a self-respecting country is trying to set its foot, and when it does this it feels obliged to protect it, while here, look, Russia has never thought to locate troops by us, maybe it was befallen by some kind of insanity, ah? But otherwise throughout the Western Europe this was obligatory, and in the People's /_Allemagne_/, so to say, /_die Russen_/ have raised even a wall in the middle of one town, Berlin, in order to make so that a single bird will not be able to fly over it, and by the Bulgarians -- nothing! And if the Russians were not in a fit of insanity -- and this for nearly 50 years, ah? -- it remains only the possibility that our /_Uncle Tosho_/ [i.e. Todor Zhivkov, the long-lasting Bulgarian President in the totalitarian times] has succeeded to pacify them somehow, in what I don't believe much; yet if this was so then him must be posthumously awarded some new democratic medal, or such one has to be established, f.ex.: "Three Golden Lions" -- what would you say to this, my gentlemen democrats?
-->But this unquestionable fact for good will on the part of the Russians to us has hindered with nothing the above-mentioned UDF-ers (or haters, lumpens, bastards, and so on), who, as I said, and how it became clear to our whole nation, yet with about 10 years delay (only at the end of the century, when /_Mony_/ [Solomon] Passi chucked them out of the ruling [our idiom here is to ... roll the cabbage leaves over them]), decided that the Russians are the worst nation for us, and we must without any delay turn our backs at them. If these UDF guys and girls have had nothing else bad except their Russophobia, then they again deserve disgrace and curses, but it was not only this, they simply continued by inertia -- because they, obviously, were /_second_/ echelon communists from old time, such whom the real communists (well, in the sense of those times) kept away from the power (what is now postfactum seen to have been right approach) -- to spit at their opponents, to act against them -- only that not 'napuk'-against in the manner how Jotata in his NAPUK party proposes, not with good will (because he does /_not_/ aim at the power, even it some people put it in his very hands, how is said, he will say: no, sirs democrats, without me), but entirely pl/_ju_/ralistic [what is an old pun in Bulgarian, because the correct word is 'pluralisym', while 'plju...' hints on spitting, what is 'pljuja'].
-->What does not mean that guilty were only the higher UDF persons, no, because for them voted (sometimes, it depends on the phase of the ... pendulum, but this requires long explanations) more than 50 % of Bulgarians and this by practically 100 % voting activity, what gives real above 50 %, while for the leading in the moment party these percents will bevome only about 16. So that guilty is the /_spirit_/ of UDF, which still soars in the air, which is continuation of their slogan "Compromises with everybody, only /_not_/ with the communists!", and because of this one known general [Boiko /Boyko /Bojko Borisov, where the last is according to my transliteration] has said in the beginning of his coming to power, that if the people do not vote for him, then for whom else, maybe for the communists, ah? Well, at this moment I even don't know, if we take for granted that the ethnic /_non_/-Bulgarians by us are already above the half of the left in Bulgaria population, then this might be justified, but at least before some 30 years this was extremely /_anti_/-democratic manifestation (for which, if Jotata has been asked, he would have proposed as punishment painless ... castration of the men, and unilateral masectomy of the women, who have occupied posts above town level -- and it is good that they don't ask him, right?).
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==>*_SONJOTKA 05-th_*
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-->Plus this, my short-sighted gentlemen,
-->but you are /_aqua nuda_/, pure water!
-->Europe is only a ... /_peninsula_/;
-->where Asia is with a big "belly".
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-->Russia is a great empire,
-->was such, is, and will be in the future;
-->while Europe is, as it may be said,
-->a pack of wolfs, already for centuries!
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-->And the Western civilisation,
-->with its morality in declination,
-->is long ago in senile prostration!
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-->Comment: Well, here again will be necessary some blowing of bubbles, because the said by me in poetic form is more than clear. But, on the other hand, where have you read that Europe is peninsula of the great primordial Asian continent, ah? I think that this is my, Jotata's invention, if this can be called so. Yet you look around, take a map (preferable of the world) and cast a look at it, compare the area of whole Europe, even not with Russia, only with India, and even without adding of the Chinese, so that in its territory Europe (without counting, I am lazy) is not more than 1/10-th of Asia, and according to the population as if is again so, because I have seen somewhere that the Euro-Union has now exactly half of billion people (and China + India make whole 3 billions). Europe is simply very densely populated, not so much as Japan, but, still, pretty densely, while Russia and USA are nearly without population, according to their territories.
-->So that Russia is great empire, really, and one must have felt proud just to circle around it, like satellite, and we have done exactly this earlier with the /_Grandpa Ivan_/ [how we have called Russia for centuries earlier], we felt ourselves flattered that people liked us, come to fight for us, and so on, this is not a thing for joking, neither they are indifferent to us (as I explained recently). But the West was before not well informed about our /_satelliting_/, and we now, too, are not aware, because we do not do this more. (People, let me now tell you in parentheses that once, in 1990, +/- 1 year, I have written a letter with questions about working in Australia or New Zealand, and they have sent me one leaflet with their requirements for immigration, and on the envelope was written: my name, the street and number, the town, the country, and below this ... /_Soviet Union_/, i.e. USSR.) Yet it was not so, from the common harness with Russia we only gained, and this is seen perfectly clear now, when we can in no case win, because we are not with them, and Europe does not give a damn about us (except as additional market).
-->And now let us look at Europe, ah? But this is one real wasp nest, there has not existed even half a century without wars, except in one empire of Carl the Great (or Charlemagne or Carlo Magno), i.e. in a totalitarian country, or later in one Austro-Hungary (where they have entirely forgotten about the Czechs in the name). Else there were fights and battles and v.v., and not only between adjacent nations (like Italians and Frenchmen), but also in the very Italy, which for many centuries has not existed, there were various /_paesi_/ or earldoms, counties, regions. And it has been the same with the Germans, there are a heap of /_Gebieten_/-regions there. And if we compare this with the battles fought in Asia, then there were big battles in the time of Genghiz Khan, who has made all nations around to scream with horror, and the peaceful Chinese (because it is so, in broad lines, the eastern people are peaceful, the Hindus, the Chinese, and the Russians, respectively) have decided to erect such high wall on the border, that it was seen from the space with naked (or, probably, a little "clothed") eyes. So that Asia, of course, is much more peaceful than Europe, and taking into account the much wider territory there were less battles even procentually. While Europe: why it succeeded at last to unite itself and all countries there rushed immediately in NATO, ah? Well, because in the peaceful post-war time (after the Second World War) not a single country could be compared even with the pinky of the US, and they wanted this eagerly, this was the point, while some not worthy /_Japs_/, after the US made all their family to cry loud [this is an idiom for some utmost defeat] in military condition, for about zero time have become second world power in economic aspect, so that why this ancient European continent must not show that there do not live only nincompoops and bullies, but between them are also clever heads?
-->And that the civilization passes away I think is clear to everyone, or I will come somehow later also to this question.
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==>*_SONJOTKA 06-th_*
-->
-->And then let us turn to the market:
-->but it just chewed us, f#ck it!
-->Earlier everything was planed in the CMEA,
-->now are no plans at the top -- who is guilty for us?
-->
-->We flooded Russia with tomatoes,
-->and they us with ... flatirons and cars;
-->who has no brains must suffer,
-->because it reins no manna from the heaven!
-->
-->Yet when everywhere reigns cheating trade,
-->we become more poor, fasten the belts,
-->because the wealthy makes a ... piss over the poor!
-->
-->Comment: Well, this now is new topic, there are things to be said here, without blowing of bubbles. But here also everything is clear (or at least to me, Jotata), because ... let me tell you one tale. There was once one Otto, but /_von_/, and on top of this also Bismarck, damn it, and he was not much beloved by his contemporaries, yet he has done what he could do (as long as he stands on his throne and waves the whip as appointed by God for a king). So this Otto, with simple name but with sober (at least sometimes) mind has said once somewhere (I have read this in Western journals in the beginning of 90-ies of last century), that the "free market will always be a /_weapon_/ in the hands of /_stronger_/ economies"! How does this sound to you, gentlemen democrats, ah? But he was not communist, in no case, only that he has had more brains than all our UDF persons taken together. Plus that he, if I am not wrong somehow, was the man, who has introduced for first time in Germany, and from there as if also in Europe, as well in the world, the insurances for pensions -- very simple, with one fell swoop, like in his time one Chinese emperor has decided to introduce paper money and has introduced them, and no one dared to oppose him.
-->So that the market gulped us at once, chewed us in no time, and ... spat us, and now we are, as they say [by us]: chewed, chewed and /_spitted_/ out! Such are we, the '/_bugari_/' (led by the destructive spirit of UDF, on the contrary to what is written over the entrance of our Parliament called National Assembly [it stands there: In the unity is the power, or the unity makes the power]). While by our bad Uncle [it is 'baj' in Bulgarian, what has to be from Eastern 'baba'-father] Tosho existed CMEA [Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, also Comecon, in Bulgarian 'SIV', what as word, 'siv', means grey] (which was not at all some colourless and /_grey_/ organisation), that said to each country what to produce, so that not to hinder one another (in our efforts to dupe our neighbour [and let me squeeze here that your dupe, read in Bulgarian as 'dupe' means /_exactly_/ -- believe it or not -- an ass, so that I am sure that this has to be the idea for this Western word, as some hole, something dug]). There is not to be denied that /_not_/ everything was OK, many things were doubled (f.ex., cars, computers, etc.), but there was in any case something centralized, not like now -- complete chaos [as we say "Let's rush to gather olives", or whatever -- because there grow no olives in Bulgaria], and if somebody succeeds, then good, but if not, then nobody is guilty.
-->And as to the tomatoes we, really, flooded Russia with them, I personally was there in the 70-ies and know this, and later have read somewhere that in some year we have produced 8 mln tons of tomatoes, and we were then 8 mln people, so that everyone can see that this gives by one ton tomatoes per capita, including the sucklings! And your Jota is sure that nobody can eat more than 100 kilos tomatoes in an year (i.e. about 300 grams daily on the average) without sh#tting the pants after this. And this is only 10 % of the whole, hence everything else went on export, not to the garbage (how is often done now). And in the other direction to us came flatirons, TV sets, cars, various instruments, what not. And that we have lost such beautiful market no other than us is to be blamed.
-->Yet there came the democratic chaos and what happened? Ah, happened this, that we, instead of to become richer, began to become progressively poorer, year after year, until the Money Board came (in absolutely /_unsuitable_/ time, i.e. so late it had better not came at all, but the gulls from UDF were not able to see that), that nailed us to the bottom, so that we do not longer become poorer, but also do not become richer (if we do not count those of us, who went abroad, be it to cleanse toilets there). So these are the things. And the wealthy countries, obviously for me, but at the moment not for all of us, are only pissing at us how they can, because this is the free market, /_survival of the fittest _/[given so also in the original text], and we are pretty weak little country, Balkan, oriental one, we are not for such predatory market, yet after we have alone put our head in the bag, according to the saying, we must endure the sufferings, must ... wipe the piss put of our faces and say to us that it was ... dew sent by God!
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==>*_SONJOTKA 07-th_*
-->
-->When the economy is not planned
-->the human labour is wasted, goes to the ditch!
-->Succeed only big multinationals
-->to heap money with full bags.
-->
-->Because they /_plan_/ for themselves,
-->and are with decent quotas in their branch;
-->so the stronger everywhere prosper,
-->while the weaker only poison their life.
-->
-->And the rush for the West was in this,
-->to ... shove it us as deeper as they can,
-->and to swing how can the cudgel!
-->
-->Comment: Well, here I continue the offensive against the stupid, not only of UDF, but all right-wing mug-heads. It is pretty clear that without planning the work of people goes to the ditch, and because of this our people don't want much to work, because who begins to work very hard, he does this for a pair of years, until his liver begins to ache of tiredness, and when he goes to the frightful market and makes a try to sell something, in order to receive reward for his labour, it turns out that all his work was for nothing, and again for nothing [this is German idiom: /_fu:r nichts und wieder nichts_/]! We still have not (as far as I know, but judging by the results it has to be so) one branch, yet /_non_/-business, groups, that has to make plans and prognoses; this, what some "specialists" can sometimes say, is both, uncertain, and manipulated (more than obvious) by some business company that pays for this (and when so, it looks at its own interest). And without planning al private initiatives go, as we say, to the movies (and usually in the busiest hour, from 6 to 5 [this is another idiom for something wasted]).
-->While by the biggest companies, some from the leading 10 or so in their branch, which most often are also multinationals, rarely only Bulgarian, the situation is quite different, because they have opportunities to set aside funds for prognostics and planning, for research and development activity, and so on, the others just stay /_apport_/ like obedient dogs, that is. The phrases that by the free market succeed the most capable are similar to the boastings of emancipated women (which I prefer to call emancipat/_ess_/es), who state that, when the women are free, they will succeed to prove that they are equal with the men, only that this is the next ... /_mass oligophrenia_/, gentlemen, as well madams (when it goes about you)! There, where the God Himself has created the biggest inequality between the individuals, is /_no way_/ to prove, in whatever manner, existing of equality, this, what these "gooses" can prove, is their /_in_/equality with the men, and thanks God that this is so (in spite of the contemporary homosexual world). [And let me give some explanations about these "gooses" -- the pun here is that in Bulgarian /_emancipat_/ in feminine will be 'emanci/_patka_/', but only 'patka' as word means exactly goose.] So that if we return to the question about the capable persons or companies under conditions of free market, then the best what they can hope for is to be sooner discovered by someone with more money than his brain, so that to pay them decent amount of money if they will work for /_him_/.
-->And, naturally, when a company owns at least 3-4 % of the market, and even better if these are 10-20 percents, then its efforts are not wasted, because it becomes /_part_/ of the market, while such with less than 1 pro/_mille_/ can ... eat turnip [again idiom, for bad luck], as we say. The weak and small can only work /_under_/ the strong, and to be satisfied with little wins, yet, still, not to drown, while the stronger can take money from one place and move it to another, can try something new, people listen to him and respect him, he is the one who matters [the idiom here is to /_spin_/]. The weak is a beaten card, he can not be independent player, has not the /_critical_/ mass for this. Yet the stronger /_benefits_/ from spreading of the delusions, that everyone can win if he is capable, this allows him to choose whom to gulp, somebody more successful, not outsider (say, like our country), this is like one of these games where is said "play and win", or "look under the cap" -- somebody will win, there are always exceptions, but they, as everyone has to know (yet does not know), do /_not_/ disprove the rule, but confirm it with their exceptionality.
-->And let me remind you one more moment, in 1990 was world economic crisis, I followed then bank interest rates in some Western countries and they have reached somewhere till 9-10 %, so that the people simply searched new markets, and because of this they changed the policy of the stick with that of the carrot [how you on the West like to say], we were necessary to them, we helped them, /_not they us_/, so that who was duped was duped. There are no more such countries like ours, and for this reason in 2008 came /_even bigger_/ economic crisis, out of which we still can not exit.
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==>*_SONJOTKA 08-th_*
-->
-->Except this, listen, exist marketing,
-->and it is such, to tell you, thing,
-->invented for to /_overcome_/ the market,
-->because it alone leads to nothing good!
-->
-->The mindless people's masses can
-->with its help easily to be led by the nose.
-->Brains they, surely, have not much,
-->yet self-esteem good, at high level.
-->
-->In this way again the one who has money,
-->cheats gulls, donkeys, laymen,
-->and his colleagues makes to pizzas.
-->
-->Comment: Well, the topic is the same, yet I think that there will be no need to blow bubbles, because, look, I don't know who else except me has asked himself the question: good, when the market is such nice thing, then why we do not leave it to function as it can, but have invented such special science (as if since not more than a century) called marketing, what must say /_marketology_/, science (not that it is so, but for the sillier businessmen when there is used operation /_multiplication_/, and especially statistical relations and graphics, then this is counted for "science") for conquering of the market? But if somebody has ask himself this question, from that point further everything is easy, the answer is obvious, that this is exactly because the market is /_not_/ a good thing, at least for each separate company, and if you will not deceive with something you will not succeed (where the Russians even have their classical proverb: you don't cheat, you won't sell), so that let us outwit one another!
-->OK, good, when this is the case, when we must outwit one another, then there is no need to moralize anymore, let us do it and end of the discussions. What is so, only that /_again_/ that one with the money will overcome those without it (or with less than him), because the masses have brains, but surely /_less_/ than of home pets, like dogs and cats, f.ex., yet also horses, pigs, donkeys, turkeys, hens, lambs sweet lambs [we have one old folks song about the lamb], at cetera. And I overdo nothing, not at all, the home (or not, but still) animals are /_cleverer_/ than us, the humans, they have hot reason but have /_instincts_/, you can't cheat them to eat soya minced meat, f.ex., or powdered skimmed milk, of something of the kind. I have personally checked this, because for some time I have had a cat (tom-, to be more precise), and have given him (I and my father) dissolved milk powder, such that is sold (and for which some people said that they have succeeded to make it to sour one), for the simple reason that we alone used it sometimes as addition in the coffee, and what do you think happened, ah? Well, happened this, that that tom- did not at all wont it, but when (a pair of times in the year) I have brought home a bottle with natural milk from the peasants (that for /_this_/ reason is banned for selling, because is natural, unlike the pasteurized in the shops), then he sniffed it even from the door through the cap (some drop of milk has remained outside of the bottle and it smelled). So this was about the mindless masses, whom you can cheat with everything!
-->According to Jotata (yet who asks him?) this is /_not_/ so bad, in the sense that the stupid advertising (aimed, obviously, at imbecils, morons, preschool children, probably to adolescence, and then from pension age above) can be used for orientation about this, what one must ... /_not buy_/ -- as simple as that [the last also in the original]! Why? Well, quite easy, because this is money given from the company which it wants later to collect from the customers, i.e. this makes each advertised good /_more expensive_/, and the more it is advertised, the more higher is its price! And why should one (with brains) buy something more expensive, when he can buy it (the same, or practically the same thing) cheaper? The question is rhetorical, because the masses just have not enough brains in their mug-heads.
-->So that the market is not only unjust place for all tiny fishes (no matter buyers or sellers), but also a place for skating (on watermelon rinds, but maybe such from melons can also be used, I haven't tried) of the naive fishes, 'balyks' (what is the same like the previous but in Turkish), gulls (your gullible comes from the gull, and, hence, means a person who can be easily cheated), laymen (which word can, if desired, yet I am afraid also without any desire, be related with Bulgarian, which is Gypsy, sh#t [what must be exactly so, the Gypsy 'lajno'-sh#t is bound to make sure link with Latin /_laicus_/]), and similar easy-believing or dupable persons, as well also for exercising of supremacy over the colleagues from the branch with less capitals, due to what the last ones are not counted.
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==>*_SONJOTKA 09-th_*
-->
-->Bulgaria, /_traditionally_/ poor,
-->turns to be last in the fighting;
-->who thinks that it is possible otherwise --
-->let God has mercy on him.
-->
-->In this way the capitalism works
-->in countries where capitals exist;
-->where they are missing -- the wound bleeds --,
-->but we have still not grasped this.
-->
-->In this way we entered in a /_vicious circle_/,
-->for a long time we just mumble oh, ah,
-->but it is woe for the nation!
-->
-->Comment: Gentlemen, I beg you, don't tell me that we are not poor, because this is seen even from an airplane. We are, really, traditionally poor country, only with nice nature, but otherwise nothing that you can dig a little and take it out and sell it; by us the agriculture is going well, but this not only is light industry, for about half a century this is also not at all problem now, all kinds of fruits and vegetables can be grown in greenhouses, and they are grown, be it even on the island of Spitzbergen (I suppose), every country develops its agriculture, and there are imported only southern fruits, yet if this was not cheaper, people would have long ago begun to grow them at home. So that's the truth, and for this reason we entirely /_deservedly_/ take the last place, both in industrial meaning, and in agricultural (and in moral, too, yet I hope to come later also to this). There simply can not be otherwise, and who thinks that it is possible, then he is out of his mind.
-->So, but the capitalism is a society of capitals, how understand now even preschool children, ergo, we are /_causa perduta_/! Well, there can be attracted foreign capitals, what we are also doing in the end, but the foreign is foreign, and with the money is not like with the women, where the foreign is preferable, but entirely on the /_contrary_/. Anyway, the state can win also from foreign companies via the taxes, and the people up to some extent also, when in this way are offered job places, yet this is not like if it is your own, when -- well, at least it is supposed so, -- somebody from the top cares about all workers, exist social measures (which by us are practically missing).
-->If there are no capitals the wound (for the working class, which continues to exist, no matter whether we call it so or otherwise -- let me remind you that the very word /_proletarius_/ is Latin and means human capable only for ... growth of the population) is bleeding, because the people want work, they don't want to be lazy; and it is much worse when with small capitals we try to organize some production, what comes out through our noses [an idiom for something overdone]. Because, in order to give an example, it turns out that by us also the pension insurances are paid partially (in 1/3) by the very workers, and have you heard about something like this elsewhere? Or that the workers are insured on basis of one minimal salary and if they get more than it is good, but this does not affect their pension. Earlier, under the totalitarianism, existed salary tables for the workers and a company, even if wanted, was not allowed to pay more than what is said in the tables to a given worker, just as much as to everyone; now each company may pay to everybody as much as it wants, nobody controls this, but in recompense of this each company tries to pay as /_less_/ as possible, so that as if there is no big difference, ah? Or even the condition of the workers has been worsened now, because every employer can have as bad attitude at you as he wants, and there is nobody to whom to complain (except, I don't know why [really, this is some silly idiom] to the Armenian priest, but there are as if no such by us, or just a dozen in the whole country).
-->And the vicious circle, ladies and gentlemen, or /_circolo vicioso_/ in Italian, is in this, that the poor can not become richer without money, and when so he not only remains poor, but becomes even poorer under one good market, because there /_is_/ for what to spend at once his money, it is not like before to keep them in the banks doing nothing [due to the miserable supply]! This circle can be broken /_only_/ with social measures, that have to preserve the inequality, when this is such necessary stimulus for the people in the world of capital, yet to cut out the cases of very poor, miserable persons, and this is what does the officially established minimal working salary (or hourly wage). Yes, only that if one can find no job -- for whatever reasons, he may be, say, drug addicted, or insane, etc. -- then this minimum, pure and simple, can't enter into force. So that, alas for our nation, if one can not succeed to go somewhere abroad.
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==>*_SONJOTKA 10-th_*
-->
-->It is a problem also that if you
-->live poor, then you are from those,
-->who look first at their belly;
-->such person is not valued by the others.
-->
-->In this way we are a priory excluded,
-->the others take us for contagious,
-->and the more we hurry at them
-->the more empty remain our pockets!
-->
-->And the other nations as if are right,
-->because everything is linked like with joints,
-->and our place is in the wild woods!
-->
-->Comment: Well, here I also say nothing new, yet from here come a big variety of our mourns, from our poverty, which is /_basis_/, how the communists (who now do not exist, at least by us) said, but the basis determines the superstructure, or the mentality, behaviour, worldview of the people. When one is at the lowest level of poverty he looks, obviously, to fill his belly, and does not give a damn about science, morality, or education, everything else except eating, drinking, and sexing (so to say) has no appeal for him (or her, you bet it), because even if he wants this he is not able to satisfy such desires (if they succeed somehow to appear in his mind). I have seen earlier some statistics about this what are the expenses of different layers of population, where the poorest have given till about 50 percents of their income for vital necessities; this money as sum can be smaller than that what give the wealthier, but as part of their income it is big.
-->With this addition, that it was so earlier, under normal and decent communal expenses, not today, when the last can easily exceed the expenses for food. By me personally, my dear readers, one daily ration for eating makes (I don't know now how many times I repeat this) about 1 to 1.20 Lv [the Lev is Bulgarian currency, where 1 Lv = 0.5 Euro, so that this gives about 0.6 Euro daily], or about 5 eggs, or about 0.7 of a bus ticket, while in the moment when I write this material I paid for the central heating 62 Lv, or by 2 Lv per day, and this under /_super_/-economies (I live in the kitchen only, have hanged one /_blanket _/in the corridor in order to isolate the way to the other rooms, and there the radiators are switched off to zero). Yeah, but there is also electricity, water, phone, Internet, and something else small, plus the taxes each year, so that my tummy-expenses are not the biggest, bigger than them, and taken averaged for an year, are the communal ones, this is the scourge for the poor, there is the slap exactly for them.
-->And such people with miserable income are /_excluded_/ from the society by us, and in other countries the people don't want to hire Bulgarians, because their "rug" [just another idiom] is not commensurable with that of the local people! For this reason Bulgarians succeed to settle somehow there, at least for a pair of months, only in the far North or far South of Europe, I think that this is known to everybody; we can strive for them, yet they do not strive for us, in spite of the fact that each country needs some low-paid, usually between the minority, labour hand, and under proper regulation this can be useful for both parts in the process, but we are out of whatever comparison.
-->Ha-ha, it will probably be interesting for you to give here one comparison from before nearly /_30_/ years, when I was for one year in one Western country, and there the minimal monthly salary was about 1500 German Marks, and the student scholarship was about 860 Marks (while in Bulgaria in that time the minimal salary was as if about 100 Marks). If you think that this was only then you are surely wrong, because in 2018 the minimal salary in Germany and France was 1500 Euro, and by us about 500 Lv, or 250 Euro, or /_only_/ 6 times lower. And this after 30 "victorious" democratic years.
-->And everything, really, is linked with the basis, i.e. with the salary, and it defines our tastes and our habits and everything. In the current moment, i.e. before an year, even Rumania (that, just so, for nothing slew its former Master) had minimal salary with 55 % /_above_/ ours, and to come to the other countries there is no need. The poverty, or rather misery (of course according to the contemporary measures, on the background of incessant throwing out of /_usable_/ goods, but which are /_not_/ for eating -- say, I personally have seen till now at lest 20 times dumped as garbage ... toilet bowl, from which about 4-5 were entirely fit), is proverbial, and it is consequence /_exclusively_/ (if not only) of our transition to democracy, earlier this was impossible.
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==>*_SONJOTKA 11-th_*
-->
-->Because we are barbarians acknowledged!
-->We know this and suffer from this.
-->Yet it seems that this is a matter of gene,
-->it is passed in the gender, from ... cock to cock.
-->
-->I would have said, in this is our ... charm:
-->to live alone on this whole world.
-->Yet there's not an easy cure here,
-->the bacillus has been sown since antiquity.
-->
-->Because of this our democracy is not working,
-->and we are chased out from all countries,
-->and many other drawbacks, but name them you.
-->
-->Comment: Ah, at last I came to my beloved theme, about our barbarity, what is one quite moderate and civilized accusation, this is /_not_/ something jurisdictional. And when it is not to be accused for, this will say that everyone can barbar/_ey_/ [I try to make a verb, to behave like barbarian] as much as he can, and we are doing exactly this, and don't care, because are not more moral country -- we have left the morality together with the communists back in the history -- but lawful, only that the laws can be made as ridiculous, comic, and paradoxical, as we want, because this is a matter of voting, what's the problem (like, f.ex., when in the Parliament is voted that one ticket for city transport must cost as much as 7-8 eggs, then this is the situation, no matter that this is not just for some people, like your author; or that all calculations in the companies are to be made in national currency, and this is fixed in Art. 4, if I am not wrong, of the Commercial law, since before about 30 years, and in those times our currency was pretty soft, so soft as a down, so to say, and all companies calculated in some stable currency, but this was not valid for economic documents, yet now a lot of countries in EU calculate in Euro, and this is /_not_/ national currency; or that in the Parliament can't exist ethnical party, but it exists for 30 years, only that is not /_called_/ so, and the common sense has nothing to do with the law, and the later can contradict as much as it wants to the first; and other similar things).
-->Well, be it as it may, the barbarity is one quite /_fuzzy_/ notion, and because of this it is included in no law (and can not be included, I suppose, or there is no need on this), but the people are people, they think with laws, so that let us give some definition of barbarity, because we will speak about it later, too. So that, see, in principle it is equalized with the godlessness, the non-religiosity, and because our people are not from the religious ones (such are nations where people go to church at least once in a week, and we do this once in an year, if at all), then from here automatically follows that we are barbarians. Yet, look here, Jotata is not one of those people who spit without looking at all around, and he understands clearly that nowadays, with all televisions, solar batteries, mobile phones, etc., the people will hardly begin to believe that some Grandpa God sits somewhere in the sky, these are fables for preschool children. In addition to this that damned Jota defends the thesis that the atheists (who obviously are non-believing) are also /_believers_/, in some sense, because this, whether some god exists or not, can simply /_NOT be_/ proved, hence the atheists take this by faith, they are not such ones how the people think (and the very Jota is between them). From what follows that we must apply here some broader meaning of the notion belief and unbeliever, not according to some invented divine being, but according to the /_other_/ people around, in the space, as well also in the time, i.e. in the relation between the generations! So that can be defined that the belief in religion has the purpose to unite the people in the time and the space, and who does not stick to this, who lives alone for himself (or herself), he is barbarian, clear and simple, like everything ingenious (that has come out under the pen of Jotata). And we are exactly such people, we live for ourselves, alone, do not accept the uniting under whatever common platform, have not common goals or ideals (only the personal wellbeing), deny our history (45 years are enough [this was the first crazy UDF slogan and it became later proverbial, meaning the communist ruling], let us scratch them out, what we also did, and as a result ... /_returned_/ with as many years back [in our development] -- now it is seem clear that we have returned with at least 30 years, when are still worse than before as a mass, and the people run away from here, as long as they can).
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==>*_SONJOTKA 12-th_*
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-->Good, but why before was not seen
-->this barbarity, and everything worked,
-->not exactly good yet more or less decent,
-->and with own goods, not with everything imported?
-->
-->Well, because the masses have not taught the tops
-->what to do then, but the opposite,
-->and was not /_despised_/, like now, the part
-->moral or knowing, naturally.
-->
-->But the change of our chariot
-->before the horse gave also with this a slap
-->at the common sense -- as if we are children!
-->
-->Comment: Now look, I will continue this topic further, so that let us not formalize about the exact sonjotkas, and let me first finish the things related with the previous one. So by all appearances it seems that the barbarity by us is a matter of gene and is passed -- according to the brilliant formulation of Jotata -- from a prick to the next one! And it, in general, depends not on East or West, but on North or South, where the /_Southern_/ nations are, as a rule, more barbarous, leave the neighbour even to die of hunger, while on the North the nations are more united. The Southern nations are such because on the South it is easier to survive, so that some special help there is not necessary, everybody can do well alone, yet notwithstanding this all, I repeat /_all_/, religions aim at uniting, and because of this all Arabs and Hebrews, and the Spaniards, the Italians, the Greeks, the Georgians, the Persians, and on and on are believers, and are not like us, while we are the utmost exception. It may be, really, that our charm is in this (and up to certain extent it is so, we do /_not_/ trouble our neighbours with beliefs and traditions -- when they don't want to do like us, then how they want), yet everything in certain measure, not out of it, not so that all nations around us to notice this and it to begin to prick their eyes.
-->Sirs, I am not historian (the history is for me a ... whore, and everybody makes with it what he wants, interprets it in his manner, does not learn from the errors of past generations, and so on -- or how one has said, I have forgotten his name, it is an endless sequence of /_errors, crimes, and murders_/), but I have still heard about one Inter-Allied war [or Second Balkan war], where, after we have fought what have fought in the Balkan one, have all other former our allies at once turned the weapons on us, because we are beasts, monsters (greater than the Russians are for the UDF followers), there are nowhere else in the world such people like us, and when so they must exterminate us. I have also heard that once the Great powers have /_given_/ us Southern Dobrudzha [region in the North-East of Bulgaria], had just taken pity on us, also after the Russian-Turkish war [1887-8] these powers also messed something in our affairs, stir the water as if in our favour, yet it can't be said exactly. Then in our newer history is known one Leipzig trial where the Germans catch themselves as a drowning man at a straw for our /_Gosho_/ [Georgi] Dimitrov, and decide that when he is Bulgarian, then there is no one else more suitable than him for to have set their /_Reichstag_/-Parliament building to fire, i.e. that their people, the masses, will believe in this. Then later is one case that we have been decided to shoot not somebody else but exactly the Roman Pope, and this we, the known unbelievers in whatever God, whom the Pope neither hinders, nor helps them, yet what is to be done, '/_Bugari'_/ [how the Serbs call us], and the people around believe in such inventions, both, the investigating organs and the masses. And relatively soon came the case with our medics in Libya, where the model was exactly the same, copied with indigo, wherever happens something bad, then the cause for this are Bulgarians. And this hurts me, because I know that we are not such people, but how to convince the other nations that we are not such, when, otherwise, we are barbarians to the bone marrow, so to say! And because of this our democracy does not work, and because of this we are driven out from everywhere, and only us befall various troubles.
-->Yet earlier, really, our barbarity was not seen so openly, we have simple no possibilities to show it, the communists "hit over the fingers", they taught us something; we may not like now their morality but it was, as a whole, /_right_/, to work for the others, to built the new life, not to be greedy for money, and similar things. And the learned, like your Jota, was valued, even if he did give nothing to the people (a scientific worker works for the science, he does not produce eating or drinking, builds no homes, etc.), yet I have again used the allotted space, so that I stop now.
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==>*_SONJOTKA 13-th_*
-->
-->In country of unbelievers and without morality
-->decays the population fast entirely;
-->in service of the Golden Calf
-->is formed scoundrel after scoundrel.
-->
-->Among the other nations of the world
-->is not so hindered their life
-->in moral plan, but we are probably the ... rubbish --
-->have betrayed our Levski and shot Botev.
-->
-->[ Levski and Botev are national heroes from our Revival times in the end of 19-th century, before freeing from Turkish yoke, and Levski was unquestionably betrayed by one from the masses (probably Gypsy, but this changes nothing), and for Botev is said that he was hit by a stray bullet, yet they have fought no fights at all, the northern part of the country was entirely peaceful.]
-->
-->This is not /_normal_/ corruption,
-->reigning everywhere, having become banal,
-->by us it is vulgar and also unmoral.
-->
-->Comment: Well, what has left from the previous sonjotka is about putting of the cart before the horse, what is a good simile, because this is /_possible_/, if it goes about a hand barrow then this is the way how it is driven, but with horses this simply can't work; so also here the people must be taught, yet we judge like little children that, yes, of course the people are those who have to tell what has to be done, not the learned, that the uneducated is this that has to teach the educated, because this is the quintessence of democracy (i.e. it is not exactly so, but amidst the uneducated masses is created, and this /_on purpose_/, the illusion that it has to be exactly so, when common people from the masses go in the National Assembly, then this means that they are those who have to teach all the left, also in the Ministries and so on, they will call the tune for the "song", and they do this, and in this way we have reached till the curved pear tree [I don't know why, this is another idiom])!
-->So, and now to the new theme, the morality, what, in fact, is not a new topic, I have spoken about this, it is a heap (/_mores_/ in Latin, in plural, or a ... sea [in Bulgarian it is exactly 'more', what is common Slavonic word], compare this [also] with German /_mehr_/ or English more) of rules for behaviour in the society, among people, what is reduced chiefly to two aspects, uniting in the space, with the people next to you, with the neighbours, and in the time, with these before you and those who will come after you (and who will be such how you bring them up, or leave them alone, what we are doing). All this can't be said that is not clear to the people, it is clear for some 3-4 (if not more) thousand years, the service to the Golden Calf ruins each nation, that begins to do this, but the point is that the very capitalism requires this, it forces us to do it, and if we have not something in our souls to pill us away from this end, how it is with the unbelievers, then we just stick to the gold or money, and there is no freeing from this for us.
-->Yet there was the damned UDF stupidity (or insanity, you choose the right word) that prevented us from sound judging, and we began exactly with unnecessary freeing of private initiative, with its pushing everywhere, in the education, in the healthcare, and in the very morality (if you are poor, say like me, then you have no right to teach the people how to live, they know it better, because /_they have succeeded_/ in life, not you), and in everything, but this in a godless nation is equal to self-murder, what we have also done, we are disappearing as nation very persistent, with unswerving steps, the people save themselves abroad! Some morality by the communists existed, this is obvious, because they denied the enrichment and mercantilism, they preached that everybody must work for the /_others_/, not because of the money, they have spoken about /_moral_/ stimuli and the material ones were kept only at a minimal level, but the point was that we had to scratch out this past, so that let us scratch out also the morality, let us leave the private initiative to teach us what is moral and what not. Well, this is again putting of the cart before the horse, because the damned young blood could not wait, why should they listen to the senile old communists, uh and down for such people.
-->And, gentlemen, when Jotata says something he weighs his words, and by the other nations the situation, really, was not such, they were in their bigger part religious (e.g. the Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Germans, the Baltic nations, and others), or then strong and organised (like the Russians chiefly), and where it was not so there the worsening of the situation came, in some places due to national problems, but after their solving the things as if went better, while by us everything is /_aqua nuda_/, we are at the end, and entirely deserved, because we have very low or missing morality, this what I often call barbarity. Ours is not /_normal_/ corruption, which reigns in every nation, because there is no way, if somewhere is no competition, to have no bureaucracy, corruption, misusing of power, at cetera, but by us this is style and method of work, like in the state's sector, also in the private one.
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==>*_SONJOTKA 14-th_*
-->
-->We are nation, like each other, working hard,
-->but then, alas, significantly /_wilder_/,
-->and when is not heard slap of a whip
-->the life by us can not ... chirp nicely!
-->
-->Because of this we good are when in /_slavery_/,
-->or under power totalitarian, strong,
-->but left free we don't know when to stop,
-->and behave like ... infantile mob!
-->
-->Else there would have been a paradox
-->when the people give their free /_vox_/
-->to live, as a whole, worse than dogs!
-->
-->[You can see that the last 3 lines above a rhymed, what is so because in the original text are used the same vox and dogs and the paradox sounds similarly.]
-->
-->Comment: So that we, like every other nation, are hardworking people, really, for the simple reason that there is no way for an entire nation to be lazy, it will not survive if this is so. And in order to be possible that we are both, like every other nation, and at the same time worse than all others (at least in EU), there has to be a reason for this, and it (at least in this case) is that we are more wild than the others (I mean the Western countries). Because otherwise, what else if not savagery is this, that we have no regular bus lines to Vitosha [a mountain just adjacent to the capital Sofia] (but regular, and that every one was able to go at least in a working day there, how it was earlier, not /_one_/ only bus at 40 to 60 minutes, and this only to the Golden Bridges [a region somewhere in the middle of the high], and not during the whole year, for a town going to the two millions -- I have checked these things the last year, so that I know the situation)? Or not to have public baths practically at all, or as exception with prices of 4 Lv [divide by 2 for Euro] somewhere in the province, and in Sofia by 3 Lv in some bathing pools for additional revenue? And many other examples (say this, that the quotient of the fish tsatsa-'caca' [the smallest, it is given as sprat] to the mackerel earlier was 1 : 4, if I am not wrong, 40 cents. and 1.60 Lv, while now the price of this tsatsa already reached 3 Lv, if it is 2.50 then this is taken for cheap, and the mackerel can be found for 4 Lv, where I have succeeded to buy it for 3 Lv, when the tsatsa was as if 2.70 -- in a /_non_/-barbarian country the people would have made some fund for lowering of the price of the tsatsa-fish, or the soya minced meat, and other goods from the ration of the paupers, offal, f.ex.). So that nowadays can "chirp" only 5 to 10 percents still left small owners, or such who continue to live on their parent's backs (they may come up to 15 %).
-->And anyway, this, that in totalitarian conditions, or under Turkish, or German, or Russian, or whatever ruling, we are better, more obedient and meek, than in democratic conditions, means only one thing: that either we are not for the democracy, or the democracy is not for us! And, please, do not stick to the word, that the things came to be two, because they are reduced to one thing, the democracy, in this /_utterly_/ right-wing variant, which we have (and /_wanted_/ to), is not good for our people, so that if we want to have democracy AND Bulgarian nation something has to be done, something of the kind of Jota's NAPUK party! Not to cry that people's republic was tautology, and, hence, we must take away the word "people's" from everywhere, from our national theater [and have in mind that in Bulgarian 'naroden'-people's and national are synonyms], or national library, and so on, and respectively from the democracy, and even better to put one anti- in front, how it was with one "great" newspaper ANTI (and only this, anti to /_everything_/ -- understand, reasonable), as a result of what we now have, put in two words, /_anti-people's_/ democracy! Congratulations, gentlemen democrats, from left and from right, from above and also from below, amidst the very nation! If this is not infantile mob, then help me, give a better example, propose more suitable name (f.ex., if we use the expression of one great Bulgarian writer [Ivan Vazov], instead of to speak about the "drunkenness of a nation" -- understand from the freedom -- to say /_chronic alcoholism_/ -- understand inhuman attitude and commercialism everywhere and for everything, only not to leave something halfway close to our old moral norms, no matter that they were communist, because now we have just /_no_/ such norms).
-->And for the last 3 lines I just have nothing to say, you find some poet who with such easiness can rhyme in /_3_/ languages! And in addition to this to say /_true_/ things, i.e. that now, when as if the people decide what is good and what not, and as if they choose their rulers, and so on, then we, in spite of all this, live (as a whole) worse than dogs, and what, obviously, is a pure paradox! In the sense that this /_would have been_/ paradox, /_if_/ the democracy for us was better ruling than the totalitarian one, what it, alas, is not, but must have been.
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==>*_SONJOTKA 15-th_*
-->
-->But now, look, with the other countries
-->former totalitarian, if somebody compares
-->our mournful condition
-->and theirs, he can not deny,
-->
-->that we now, by common affluence,
-->live worse than the third world,
-->as if some poisonous herb
-->we have drunk and are still unconscious!
-->
-->Our misery is terrible,
-->our vulgarity utterly fruitful,
-->and our honour as nation is wiped out!
-->
-->Comment: Now, gentlemen, each thing has to be compared with other similar things, there are no absolute truths, at least not by the problems in life. So that we, as former totalitarian country, must compare ourselves with other such countries, yet for those from Central Europe everything is more than clear, we are miles behind them [here is used one Bulgarian idiom saying literally that we cannot step even on their little toe, but why we say so, I suppose, nobody knows]. Some other countries had problems with the ethnicities there, had fought wars, and are now as if again better than us, but with those that entered in EU we can not, and I wouldn't have tried to guess when we could have /_begun to can_/ to, compare with them; we are, by all appearances, better only than Cuba, but we just have not their problems, by us there are no illiterate Negroes, we do not live on a stone's throw exactly from US, have not their hard endurable climate, at cetera. Ah yes, Albania is our hope, if it also enters in the European Union then we will /_retreat_/ with pleasure from the outsider place, but earlier than this I don't believe, regardless of the superstructure, in the sense of ruling party. As I mentioned, we are better as if only than Ukraine, but they have petrol, not single wheat fields. Well, and if we continue further East, then about Mongolia we will be bound to stop and give them a hand, but there is only desert there, from this comparison we will go further down in our self-esteem, instead of to soar higher.
-->And the point is the background, gentlemen, on which we are now, of common prosperity, what means throwing out, that we are ready to throw out a heap of goods, only not to lower some prices. As absolute standard we are now better than before 30 years, not denying this, yet there were then no people poking in the garbage cans, but now such people exist, not a few, even your Jota, who does not really /_poke_/, no, in no case, he just looks to see whether something was not hanged outside on the handles, or left on the ground, or shyly on a corner above, and if this is good for /_eating_/, then he makes use of this, naturally, he deserves this, he has several tertiary educations, why must he leave this to the dogs and the Gypsies? So that this our absolute step forward would have been present also if everything was in the spirit of Uncle Tosho and the old (also in their years) communists (not the young fellows, who have denied the communism, but are not good even as socialists, they are pitiable conjuncturists-opportunists).
-->So that I don't see everything in black colours, but the point is that without the hasty rushing of UDF-/_calves_/ before their "mother" [there's a saying in Bulgarian about doing something hasty like calf running ahead of its mother] -- the communist "dairy cow" --, we would have had a bunch of the contemporary things, which earlier were not present, like Internet, mobile phones, artificial food, mutated and /_permitated_/ fruits and vegetables, and others, and probably on similar prices, also from the West, because it alone decided to give us a hand, and would have given it to us even if this sharp turn to the right (in the poorest European country -- who would have thought this?) has not begun, only with the hope that this can happen, but even if this has not happened then its products were better (because of the better exploitation there, of course), so that we would have been again their good markets, what they wanted. But would have not come lowed than the third world, the banana (or pineapple, mandarine, avocado, olive, and so on) republics, how it has happened now, when was established our ultra-right democracy, so right-wing, that in order to preserve our nation as such, the latter is forced to emigrate /_en masse_/ to the West.
-->So in this sense our misery (relative, comparing the standards of life by us and in the other countries around) is terrible, our vulgarity (also absolutely, not only relatively) proliferates with wild steps, and our national honour or dignity is not seen (when was necessary the appearance of 4 fascist parties, plus the Turkish national).
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==>*_SONJOTKA 16-th_*
-->
-->Now, without the old equalization,
-->we were caught on the shallow snare,
-->that /_stratified_/ in layers our society
-->like not yet kneaded dough!
-->
-->Who have a job they pull the cart somehow,
-->but who have not are kicked aside like dogs,
-->because who have they squatter from this,
-->and is too much the "vinegar" in their life.
-->
-->So under enhanced exploitation
-->is the working environment embittered,
-->while the cares are neglected!
-->
-->Comment: Well, gentlemen, I don't know whether you feel this, bit I have the feeling that soon I will come again to stretching of Turkish delights [what was the idiom used also in the previous places for blowing of bubbles], but my little 'lokumi'-delights, I'll tell you, are of the good ones, of those that the more you stretch them the better they become, because the Turkish 'lolum' is related with the ... locomotive, to be sure. Besides, while I have made my 70 years, I have learned some easy rules, like this, f.ex., that nearly the first symptom for /_insanity_/ is the tendency to extremities, and as much one nation is hindered because of its mass (this requires long explanations, so that I will jump over it for the moment) then ours has come to a heap of paradoxes, i.e. to abnormalities, on the highest level of the state, but also on the lowest one, of the common people. Because it is clear that the poorer one nation is, the more to the left it has to swerve, this is in the matter of the things, this the Western people know and they expect of us to do so, yet not by us. And the next going to the other pole in this case is the total (exactly this is characteristic for the insane people, that by them /_all_/ actions are total) elimination of any moderation in the salaries and income.
-->So that removing the total equalization in the salaries, we have totally stratified our society in such, who somehow [but in the original text is played with our idiom awry-left as more or less, and joking that in these days it must be probably more correct to say awry-right] manage to survive, because they have some income, were it from salary, were it from some property (receiving a rent), and such who for various reasons (most often of /_moral_/ character, i.e. they are not eager for money, and don't /_want_/ to shift other persons from certain posts, or because they have studied too /_much_/, like your author, or have some kind of disability and need expensive healing or strengthened social cares) have descended /_unexpectedly_/ low under the minimal at the moment standard of life. This is clear /_stratifying_/ of the society, making of layers in it, in such who are in it, and such who are out of it (because, f.ex., how can Jotata be in it, when he has not enough money to inscribe the grave of his father for 10 years, and can't even spend 1-2 daily food rations money for to go to the cemetery and visit the grave, because one travel to there and back /_now_/ cost for him as much as the food for /_3_/ days, without the hard drink, which is symbolic?). So for this reason, that we have split the society in layers, some persons receive now money for "integration", because the democracy /_disintegrated_/ them! Yes, but under the bad Uncle Tosho there were no integration money, because we all were in one bunch.
-->Or I can express this in another way: my pension, it is true that for 16 years labour, but still of a former scientific worker, research assistant in the area of exact sciences, turns out that must be precisely (with a pair of percents) 1/3 of the minimal monthly salary (MMS), and if we take that the average such salary is 2 and 1/3 MMS (it is practically so), this make 7 times, I repeat /_seven times_/, difference between one quite respected before intellectual, who has studied in various countries, on the East and on the West, and one '/_Sulju Puljev_/' [this is usual idiom for an uneducated common person], with average income, not to mention the so called 'mutri' (what for us can be Gypsy word, but it is Italian, /_mutria_/, and means a hired assassin, or insolent and arrogant man), who manage to make by 10 MMS monthly, yet who are not from the big bosses. If we want to express the living standard at least approximately, than it is about /_1 to 1.5 MMS_/ but on a person, and pure, so that as if half of the working people with average income again come to this living minimum! And they are working /_hard_/, they don't mere shake their legs [what for us means to do nothing] (like your author, f.ex., because this writing of various educational booklets does not hinder the shaking of the legs, right?). And for this reason they are sour, of course, and don't give a damn about the others. And what are to say those who are jobless, yet not because they are lazy, but because again has come the stagnation?
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==>*_SONJOTKA 17-th_*
-->
-->Plus that there are everywhere lies and delusions,
-->and we are already with skins like ... hippopotamuses,
-->and there is no way to be one another dear,
-->when have all become omnivorous /_phages_/!
-->
-->Of course it is so in the nature,
-->and everyone is for the other /_lupus_/,
-->but if I put hand on my heart,
-->I can't not admit that this is stupidity.
-->
-->Yet when one is immersed in the /_juice_/
-->of the socio then the goal is high:
-->to prop each other in the jump.
-->
-->Comment: Here have remained some finishing words, like this about the stagnation, that returned to us, and what I have already touched a little, because you take the bank interest rate, which is now not fixed by the state, it floats, yet /_on the bottom_/! Well, by Uncle Tosho the lowest rate, which was symbolic, was 1 %, yet now the percent is quite real, according to the demand, competitive, and so on, yet is nearly 0.1 %, and in some places it comes to /_minus_/ 5-10 %, I'm not lying, if you calculate the maintenance of the current card account; and in order to receive something at a bank cash desk (be it even 1 cent) you must pay whole 2 Lv (if you want, of course, everything is quite democratic). Plus that the exploitation, definitely, is enhanced, now hire at some job for to work there, not because of cares for the person (that he must have some income, after all), the working environment is utterly embittered, for if you will not /_dupe_/ with something your colleague then not you will prevail but he, and the care for the worker is practically missing, unless one begins to beg and shed tears, otherwise nobody comes to you to ask how are you living, what does not please you, and what can the "Party and Government" do for you (while earlier you were not left even a ... fart to leave quietly -- i.e. here, too, was a jump from the one pole to the other).
-->So that if you ask Jotata he will tell you that, in principle, the differences in the payment for one and the same work (i.e. position, length of service, such things) must not exceed /_2 to 3 times_/ (a pair of times), and how by us the income of some disintegrated citizens can differ at least (because this is not yet the ceiling, or the bottom) 7 times lower than the average, then in practically the same (in wider limits from 5 to 10 times) ratio is the difference between working by us and in some normal European country (for nearly the same work). In this way it turns that, when earlier we were isolated from the world and could not have been compared with it, then now, when we are open, our comparison with it is so mournful, that there is nowhere further than this.
-->And then come the new considerations, that now everybody, not only looks to swindle and dupe you with what he can and where only he can, but also that if he does not do this, then he is /_not_/ good enough, not up to par, because in the society of free competition reigns survival of the fittest! Have you got it, sirs, we now do not live quiet life, we are competing, and who is not competitive enough must do the blow job, I beg to be pardoned (by those of you who have still not learned to do this)! This is not some normal and inborn in everything alive desire to stand out with something before the others, but wild rivalry for competition, and the more difficult is the life by us (although worse than how it is now is impossible) the more fierce we become towards each other, and must become used to endure insults and offences always and everywhere in the sphere of production, and to devour one another in order to survive (what most often means to be able to buy like the others things, which you do /_not_/ need, and which you soon throw to the garbage, in order to buy another ones, which -- again so). Earlier, put with the frankness of Jotata, only the party workers had the right to lie and deceive (with the assumption that this was in the name of people's good and wellbeing, what in most cases was so, yet not always), while now /_everyone_/ can lie and deceive us as much as he /she wants, and this, naturally, is done not even with the /_illusion_/ for national good, but with unmasked greed for personal benefit! Id est, it is one thing for a person to be /_lupus_/-wolf due to the simple reason that one has to eat something, and it is another thing the wolfifying (in transferred meaning) to be propagated and conducted purposefully, because this is in the interest of that one who keeps the capitals, what is now clear foolishness from moral point of view. But the end will again be in the next Comment.
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==>*_SONJOTKA 18-th_*
-->
-->So that now we are at the end-'kujruk',
-->for thirty years we have come to this point:
-->both in sense of living standard,
-->and as ... stop along a boulevard.
-->
-->This boulevard is the way to Europe.
-->We are born, study, and want eagerly
-->to run away from here, as if with a bludgeon
-->are driven away, in foreign lands to live!
-->
-->These are our goals and ideals,
-->because are deceived with empty words
-->for weak-minded, blind, and 'abdals'-fools.
-->
-->Comment: And the end of previous thing is easy, but, still, hardly clear for everyone, because the very word /_socio_/ is related with some juice, in the society everybody is fried in one fire, boils in a common sauce, and must show mutual help, to help also the /_other_/ persons in their jump above (in case that he alone is not able to jump significantly high above the others). In this situation is seen that the criteria are contradictive, for one thing personal development and manifestation, and for another thing common movement forward, by which many persons are sacrificed in favour of the society, and because the /_both_/ things are important, they both have to be satisfied up to certain extent, so the way out is only in some form of compromise, but exactly compromises we neither want, nor can make.
-->Well, the whole human development, and the /_art_/ of ruling, are reduced to some momentary compromise with the environment, I say nothing new with this, and will also surely return to this later, yet our democratic development is a consequence of /_silly_/ and enthusiastic actions in defence of some extremities, just /_not_/ to find some comfortable middle point, because the middle is for ... mediocre people, and we want to be at the top, right? Yes, surely, but because we so eagerly want to reach the top, for 30 years we have come to the 'kujruk'-end [this is Turkish word] of Europe, chiefly as living standard, but as corollary of this we become just one intermediate station, temporary stop in our escape to the world. And here, naturally, each exaggeration leads to paradoxes and mistakes, because earlier were reasons in this, some prominent intellectuals and artists (or sportsmen) to emigrate abroad, because in this way they not only evolve themselves in more fruitful environment, but also spread the glory of Bulgaria (let us take f.ex. some of our stars in the musical sky), while, dear God, you recall some of our first democratic steps, then those who run away first and most actively were various business scoundrels and mafiosi (because there they have wider field for "manifestation"), but now (for 10-20 years) those are common workers, mainly building ones, for which is clear that they will not raise our glory as nation, yet they can bake well their cakes [or weave better their baskets, etc., this is an idiom that they will prosper], so that when they return to us to be able to lead quite decent life. Id est we, again, are intermediate station in the way to Europe, and this is the single thing that can attract immigrants to us from other countries (understand Arabs and Chinese, chiefly).
-->And, look here, we were troubled by our diminishing of population in the first several years after the transition, then become used to this and don't care anymore about, except that this creates background for appearance of new fascist parties -- a country with 4 such parties in our highest body, in the Talking-House-Parliament, is the next world record, don't you think so? Yet, on the other hand, children are born, I see them, they grow by us, and this while they learn to read and write, and after this, with or without knowledge of some foreign language, with some profession or without such, and go on, move away, run, jump, somewhere abroad, were it by the polar bears, or by the "pickers of olives". What, put in other words, means that we are factory for albuminous material, white people, preferable on the West before the Negroes, relatively intelligent (to be able to press the buttons of automated production), and ready to fulfill every kind of work (how the Roma by us, so also we for the West). And this is the limit of our dreams, to go out of Bulgaria, because in our nice fatherland now is not possible to live, and now here means since the coming of democracy, and how long, well, while the democracy exists, or while our /_country_/ lasts, there is no third variant (if somebody will not give an ear to what Jotata says, and will not decide to institute his party NAPUK, which has to take measures for the disintegrated persons, both for the old and for the young, and will not create some human, /_not_/ market-immoral conditions for living by us)!
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==>*_SONJOTKA 19-th_*
-->
-->Who emigrates is clear that takes risks,
-->but what is to be done, life here skids;
-->we move not even with a span forward --
-->we are caught in democratic "ice"!
-->
-->To reach the Europe is chimera,
-->especially for nation wild and disunited,
-->hence to the West, be it in the closet
-->of somebody to sleep, we'll run some day.
-->
-->There even if at the lowest level
-->one starts, he still lives /_life_/,
-->and scoops the money with kilos!
-->
-->Comment: Risk wins, risk loses, and under the current situation (and it is the same for about 30 years), the best advice to everyone of emigration age, what means up to about 30 years, but even better if at 20-25, is to make /_everything_/ possible to leave this country with disappearing functions, there is no remedy for it, this was seen perfectly well already around 98-th year, when the bipolar model by us was destroyed with various sh#tty, if you'll allow me, parties, like: as if of the King but without wanting a King, as if right-wing but tied to some personality, some fascists (because the young want goals, be they even silly, yet to them they look good), parties around business groups, new sprouts of the self-disgraced UDF, and others of the kind; even this, that ethnic party by us is on the way to become leading one, does not bode anything good for the country. Only this, what must happen, to emerge struggle in the left-wing political space, does not happen, or to be formed the directly revolutionary party NAPUK, which intends to unite the poor and the wealthy under the eternal slogan for social justice; such things do not happen because it is /_logical_/ for them to happen, but happens this, for what there is no logic at all (say, right-wing ruling in the poorest country, what I mention for I don't know which time, Russophobia in a Slavonic country, neo-fascism of youngsters, and others).
-->Yet the democratic ice is ice, the stagnation occurred, how I mentioned somewhere before, and the economic crisis, which has arisen already in the 90-ies of the last century, but postponed because of Gorbachev and the turmoil in West-European people's-democratic hive, has appeared anew and with all force about 2008, and by the current zero and negative bank interest rates it is not at all clear when it may finish, but on the background of continued throwing out of everything that can be thrown out to the garbage (what is unquestionable indicator for this, that people have simply no special necessities, nothing important and mobilizing, or living goal, otherwise put), I personally can't see what can change the course of unreasonable consumption as the only salvation from the meaninglessness of life, in any case not before some /_half_/ of a century (if we will survive as country till that moment). This half a century was prognosticated already before 30 years as the shortest time for fixing of the things, and it continues to stay the same, our moving is either to the back, or sticking in the mud.
-->So that, gentlemen, predominantly young, as I said, even in the closet [not obligatory water one, ha-ha] of some Western person you will feel better and, what is more important, inspired by one difficult goal, to survive in the conditions of emigration, when must be made efforts to manifest yourself with something worthy, not with personal enrichment. We are in such extent disunited, that can hardly be called a nation, and by us we only interfere with one another, hate us mutually without any need, aim at the Golden Calf, while on the West it is /_subsidiary_/ thing, /_not a goal_/, for self-expression and development, somewhere there we will better succeed to feel ourselves as a nation than here, by us it is place for living of your allotted time to the end and for dying, not for development. You, when possible, keep some home here, like the more experienced people do, yet live permanently on the West, paying only the tax for the home, or earn from tenants, and as to returning here, well, who knows, it is hard to guess what will be the situation after some 50 years, it is possible that, if not your children, then your grand-children, will return here, but even if they will not return, then at least you will live a normal life. Because we are good nation, but when there are few of us amidst big civilized masses, not on the contrary, solo Bulgarians; only Bulgarians make cacophony, gentlemen [although we say 'kak/_a_/-', where the pun is that 'ako' in Bulgarian is children jargon for, sorry, sh#t -- what is also the Ancient Greek meaning of the root].
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==>*_SONJOTKA 20-th_*
-->
-->And who is ready by us to live?
-->What kind of wind will blow him here?
-->Only if we are used as /_springboard_/,
-->and later: run away, a daughter, son!
-->
-->These Chinese chiefly are, and Arabs,
-->where still exist strong families,
-->and they say themselves: grandfathers and -mothers
-->when we become, we'll be with the beloved offsprings.
-->
-->But otherwise, from Western Europe
-->will bring someone his bundle here
-->only when he has become senile.
-->
-->Comment: Now, I apologize to my readers for the minor tonality of this sonjotka, but here nothing can be done, from the standpoint of supply and demand is clear that, while by us the supply is much bigger than the demand, i.e. the Bulgarians who want to get out of us are much more than those of other nations who want to come to us, then we will always be counted for /_aqua nuda_/. We are springboard and, after all, this is not so bad, the bad thing is that we are springboard not for those, for whom we should have been it! Because if by us rushed to come Russians, or Czechs or Poles, or Georgians, Armenians, Estonians, or Uzbeks, Tajiks, even Ukrainians, this, still, would have been better, such nations either stand nearer to us, or would have made good contrast with us, while from the Chinese I can't see what is our 'kelepir'-gain (but they are those, who want to come here), and the Arabs, too, in the conditions of our membership in EU, are not pretty welcome for us (where, if we were not in EU, but in some common market with Russians, Ukrainians, Turks, Arabs, Hebrews, and others, then it would have been another matter).
-->The worst thing with the immigrants by us is that they at once, even having no stable job, and of course without having learned the Bulgarian at least at the kindergarten level, begin to make children, and make them about 2-3 times more actively than us, the ethnic Bulgarians, in a result of what they fulfill, I beg these people to be excused, but they play the role of /_parasites_/ in some organism, they live on its back (or wherever they live), and are ready to leave it by first opportunity. And they succeed to do this, what we do not succeed to achieve, i.e. to proliferate much more actively than us, because in the Eastern nations the woman is still taken that has to be subjugated to the man, /_not_/ that she is inferior than the man, methinks, but that has to listen to the man, and that her work is to give birth and care for the progeny, not to make career (while the Bulgarian women do it, be this a "career" of a saleswoman in a supermarket, what means also cleaner, not career of a scientific worker or something of the kind).
-->To our Bulgarian brides the emancipation has messed so hard the brains, that they succeeded only to destroy the families, which are still necessary, without to succeed to manifest themselves with something more than the men, i.e. with nothing with what the men alone can not manifest themselves, because they still aim at expressing themselves in the meaning, which the silly advertisings often put in this, i.e. be original with something modern or profitable for us (who want this), not with something really different! And from this emancipation of the women wins the business, of course, eventually the state, yet not they alone, nor the families; they simply turn to be /_silly_/ enough for to be led by the nose like little children. But with the Chinese and Arabs the things do not stand in this way, there the women mainly give birth.
-->This process of unregulated movement of human masses in one direction, however, is bad not only in the case from us abroad and to the West, but also in us as a whole country, yet from the province to the capital, and this is something for what can be taken some measures, but nobody cares; under democratic conditions the people can at most use some tendency, not to want to amend it with their influence over it! Now, let me not go into details, but the population of our capital Sofia has grown as if 2 times for some 50 years, and now there are built awfully many housings in the town, and many persons have second home here, so that pretty soon here can live 2 mln people, and in the whole country 5, what is quite unnecessary tendency, from it nobody (except the building companies) wins. But the province is depopulated, there are a heap of useful homes, but no work, and the people run to the big polices, and how from Europe nobody comes to us, so also from Sofia nobody runs to the province.
-->
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==>*_SONJOTKA 21-st_*
-->
-->So that together with our decreasing
-->as country here leave a generation
-->predominantly the minorities, old, new,
-->which by us to live are ready.
-->
-->Yet the /_Bulgarians_/ in /_our_/ country
-->as percentage also melt fast;
-->they live somehow, it suffices for food,
-->but that born are here they regret!
-->
-->In this way the democracy got stuck,
-->or not according to the blanket were our aspirations,
-->or the nation's memory was too short.
-->
-->Comment: Ah, gentlemen, as you have heard, the troubles never come singly, and we not only are melting as nation due to emigration of Bulgarians abroad, but is changed the percentage of population in ethnical aspect, and such Bulgarians like your Jota become less and less, and soon we must be rechristened to, say, Turko-Tzigonaria [or Turko-Gypsy-Land for you]! Because I remember that somewhere in the 70-ies of the last century was officially given that the Gypsies by us are about 15 % and the Turks about 20 (you see, there are regions where live only Turks, 70, 80, and more percents). About the 90-ies these percents can't be that have not grown, because the Bulgarians do not breed especially much (/_not_/ that I say that they have to do this more actively, the humans in a world scale are terribly many, but the bad moment is the comparison with the other nations), and some 50 thousand run away Turks (I don't believe them to have been more than this) as consequence of our overdoing with the names [there was that moment in 1989, when some 100 thousand Turks fled from Bulgaria, but later many of them returned] can't have shown significant influence on this process, so that at that time the Roma (because these people otherwise can take offence at me, although they are called /_Zigeuners_/ in German, 'Zyigane' in Russian, and so in other languages; Roma can be those in Romania, because they have come from Rome, not ours) must have been reached 20 %, and the Turks about 25. Today I don't believe the Turks to be less than 30 % (in Sofia no, but as a whole for the country), and this added with the Gypsies exceeds 50 %, and there are also other ethnicities, most of all the new Arabs and Chinese, so that if someone tells me that non-ethnic Bulgarians by us are less than 50 %, then I will simply not believe him!
-->Well, but we are still called Bulgaria, and the Bulgarians as ethnos must have been more, yet they are already less. Now, look here, this is difficult problem, and one alone considers himself as such as he wants, and the persons born in Bulgaria usually count themselves for Bulgarians, so that by various statistics it will come out that the Bulgarians are even 70 %, but at their homes they do not speak Bulgarian. So that let us pay attention not at the statistics but at the truth, and it is that we disappear as nation also as percentage, the Bulgarians in Bulgaria become less and less, and this now is mournful, gentlemen! And to all this for various minorities exist different programs for support, but for the Bulgarians there are no such things, and this only pours water into the mill [another idiom] of the fascists, and when it turns that the Bulgarians have become minority (at least according to /_some_/ sources), it will turn out that MRF [Movement for Rights and Freedoms, the party of the Turkish minority] really is already /_not_/ ethnical party, yet our fascists are! How you look at this moment, ladies and gentlemen, which will quite easy come in force after 15-20 years, till the middle of the century!
-->And the people born in Bulgaria begin really to regret about this (even if they are in Sofia; I am still holding on, but this is because I have come to striking conclusions about our /_language_/, of which every nation must be /_proud_/, but if we subtract this then I, too, am not living with my spirit in Bulgaria, I am Internet emigrant, and what remains for the common people). So that some measures are needed, left to the chaos as single regulator our condition is mournful, meaning for the Bulgarian nation, although the world, or Europe, only wins from this, for it the mixing of the genes (in the foreign countries) is always welcome. It is clear that our eager wish to enter into Europe has turned to be unreasonably strong (at least because we, anyway, /_are_/ part of Europe), and if the democracy is not stuck, then we as a nation are! And the memory of our nation is short because we have 5 centuries opposed the Ottomans [i.e. Turks], when the living conditions were immeasurably worse than the contemporary, and today, when it is time to live and to sing, we have surrendered, not so much to the West, as to the /_Money_/, to the Golden Calf, and everything else is just consequence of our moral degradation!
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==>*_SONJOTKA 22-nd_*
-->
-->Because it is clear, under the Uncle Tosho
-->lived our people really not bad,
-->considered in the context of /_that_/ time:
-->work without worries, food, and sex.
-->
-->In stagnation, naturally, but in the stagnation
-->hides the peaceful /_happiness_/, people!
-->So stands out the character, temperament, personality,
-->with quiet working, without fatigue.
-->
-->The stagnation is /_goal_/ of /_every_/ system,
-->it saves strength (this is first lemma),
-->and is nice, if the belly is full!
-->
-->Comment: Well, it turns out that I return to our Toshso [and let me add that we have the funny saying that under Uncle Tosho it was not 'losho'-bad, what rhymes good], but how can I not do this when in his time we were at the possible /_height_/ in the eyes of the older brother, the Russian, while now we have /_crapped the pants_/ and stink (in the eyes of the world), regardless of our shiny cars and second homes for many of us! From the standpoint of our current misery and insecurity it turns that we as if have built the communism, inasmuch as it can be built, as some people's paradise, with laudations of the Party and Government, with the stagnation, with the quiet life, obligatory guaranteed work, the ordinary yet sufficient food, the accessible sex (as if in those times even the AIDS has not yet appeared, and the screwing was more interesting, because then this was not considered as something good, was not something moral, and we as if have done something against the law). While now the interesting in the sex is when it is perverse, homo-, sado-, maso-, such things, not the usual healthy sex like before. So that I am not inventing, earlier everything was better, only that ... ah, was pretty dull to live then.
-->And here it comes the time to quote one original Eastern (Chinese) wisdom, or rather curse, but which the Western man perceives as good wish. If I have mentioned it somewhere you just pretend that have not heard it, because at my age I have the right to repeat myself, and also here I will repeat some thoughts, if not for other reason, then because rarely someone will begin to read me entirely, so that a little repetition is even necessary. So the wish-curse is: May you have /_interesting_/ life! Because if one decides to scratch a bit his mug-head, he should have come to the conclusion that the interesting is practically always accompanied with /_risks_/, it is dangerous, while the dull and monotonous vegetation is exactly the good and healthy, happy living! No kidding, the happiness is hidden in the stagnation, and similar thought I have heard by the Ancient Greeks, and it says: if you marry and have a good wife you will be happy, else you will become philosopher! Well, here, naturally, is meant that a man begins to philosophize when he is nor pleased by something (at least Jotata, as a born philosopher, can confirm this), and when everything is OK then he is simply happy (what most often is reduced to orgasm by the women, or prostration by the elderly, ha-ha).
-->So that the meaning of the transition to society with greater level of freedoms was in this, to make our life more interesting, yet not too dangerously risky, but we, as I have said this quite many times, can't reach moderate development, we are always aspiring to immoderate staggering at the poles, and so also here, our new acquisitions are pretty doubtful, while our losses are unquestionable. The free life from old times has disappeared, and the unnecessary abundance, in which not a few people already sink, can't recompense for the nervous wearing of organism, and, besides, the opulence tenderizes, while the hardships and difficulties are this, what hardens! Not that we don't know this, but we simply were caught on the bait, that all that shines is gold, or that all that flies is good for eating, or some other simile.
-->And the best work is this, which we can do without much efforts, or by which we aim to stand out with something, and when much money we, in all cases, can't win, then at least to make our life interesting, yet without the risks of democracy and free market. In any case, as basic cybernetic principle can be stated, that the stagnation is goal for every system, because it allows /_predictable_/ development, rather quantitative than qualitative; if the conditions can change drastically (say, today you have work, but tomorrow have not) than this is now not life.
-->
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==>*_SONJOTKA 23-rd_*
-->
-->While the hectic bustle is bad,
-->when you are afraid that will be thrown in the basket
-->as unnecessary, shoddy, obsolete.
-->"And get up from the table, you've eaten what have eaten!".
-->
-->Besides now, in financial plan,
-->we are in stagnation, whole, unparalleled.
-->But who whines: ah, this bad life,
-->this cold capital winter!
-->
-->Just that this is now with the money only,
-->but without friendly shoulder to you,
-->and with risks everywhere, here and there.
-->
-->Comment: The hectic bustle of our present-day life, which, exactly, makes it interesting, is this, what is also the bad in it. The question is not only in the work, but also in the very money. Now, sirs, I remember difference in the interest rates of the banks from 300 (and there were even 700, but this as if was in Russia, or only for a pair of months), till 0.3 at the moment (and this as highest, but in some places is the symbolic 0.1 and even negative percents), and this is difference of /_1000_/ times (not to mention the thousand Lev bills, with which for some time, when one bought himself a loaf of bread and they as if were gone). But this is, neither to have, nor not to have, so is bad, but otherwise is also not good, whatever one does, there will happen something and you will get it ... in the #ss! In any case the capitalistic stagnation now is significantly worse than the socialist one from before, when at lest the money stayed in the banks, there was nothing for what to spend them, but they existed, and in addition to this the prices were maintained tolerably high, or, compared with those of today, directly low.
-->And don't forget the comparison with the other countries, because earlier the West was for us unattainable, as for an average person from the masses, only for some chosen ones, for whom was taken that when they go there, they will return again to us, else nobody was allowed to leave the country. While now we have with what to compare ourselves and realize our deep, unbeatable, even on the background of common affluence and throwing out, misery, only by the fault of democracy (because the phrases of the UDF people -- and, dear God, these people /_believed_/ in this, I have met such persons --, that the communists have ruined Bulgaria, that they have moved everything to off-shore companies, and similar myths, do not cost now even a dime, else for 30 years, excuse me, but if we were capable, we would have shown it, right?). So that the point is not in the communists, and the communist ruling during the time of Todor Zhivkov was completely /_perfect_/, in accordance with the background of Comecon and Russia, and the West, but then we were not able to reach the peaks for one reasons (poverty, not much minerals, little capitals, similar factors), and now for other ones (which are very similar to ... the /_same_/, because ran into a market entirely ruthless to our modest possibilities, both as capitals, and as number of people).
-->So that now we are, however one looks at the things, worse, but because the technologies are big things, and we eat predominantly artificial food, and the wares shine looked from afar, then we think that are better, chiefly the young ones, who on top of everything have no basis for comparison. Now you take only the artificial and mutant food: if you buy only this, on what is written (quite inappropriate, by the way) "bio", then this will cost you exactly /_3 times _/more, and the same is true also for the furniture, compared with the handmade one, and for whatnot else, what is reduced to this, that if you buy like earlier only the natural (because back then there was nothing else), then you must now multiply /_everything_/ by 3, and because the Bulgarian taken averagely statistically spends everything what he earns, it turns out that now he will be able to allow himself to buy 3 times /_less_/ things than earlier (with the same characteristics)! Id est, we satisfy ourselves with 3 times less things than before, and because of this throw them so often in the garbage, because they are garbage, yet we think that live better because everything is shining and you are greeted everywhere with smiles (but they can't feed you).
-->In brief, the freer life that we lead nowadays comes in recompense of more insecurity, more surrogates, more delusions and cheating, but made shining in order to deceive the average citizen, and in addition to this practically every person is for us like a wolf, who is ready to crunch us for breakfast, and instead of collectivism we are moving to individualism, which is beneficial for the stronger one, not for the masses.
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==>*_SONJOTKA 24-th_*
-->
-->Plus this earlier we went to pension
-->with twenty years, still in potency
-->to work at least on half-day basis,
-->so that I am not exactly delighted
-->
-->by this new merciless tendency;
-->and the women with years /_ten_/
-->later, so that, if you are not ... bison,
-->it is nearly better to get hanged!
-->
-->In general, our transition is a failure,
-->which I have not thought that would have seen,
-->but nothing can be done -- democratic conditions!
-->
-->Comment: Well, here at least I can tell you suffered things, which are guaranteed true, because I am for several years pensioner. So earlier, at least somewhere from 1960 till 1998, people retired at 55 years for the women and 60 years for the men and this was for the usual third category, but some workers with more intensively wearing kind of work (so to say, like militaries, airplane pilots, and such) retired with 20 years length of service and as if at 45 years. Besides, it was considered normal to have 20 years service, and this was the necessary service for retiring, and this was the way for calculation of the average pension, and what was above that gave something in plus; if one had not so many years service then he could have retired with the half of the service, i.e. 10 years. In this situation the average life span then was given somewhere between 70 to 75 years, where the higher limit was for the women.
-->Yes, but then came the transition and the turmoil began, crazy and everywhere. At first the years were even further diminished, due to the "wise" UDF decision, so that for the men were necessary only 57 years and for the women 53, what I don't remember how long was in force, yet, anyway, we had also this stupidity. Later, however, began the gradually, and instigated by the West, increasing of the threshold for retirement, and now it has to be around 65 for both sexes (when I retired before 4 years it was nearly 64, but for me, as half pension, it was 66 years). Yes, only you do not forget, please, the tale about the frog and the bull, where the frogs were we, naturally, and the bulls were such countries like: Germany, France, US, and other highly developed countries, in which, be it due to better medical care, be it because of healthier climate there, or because of bad feeding traditions in our country, or for some other reasons, but the average life span there was with nearly 10 years higher than ours, so that this goal, and now already reality, for us was, and is, the next stupidity or nonsense, because whatever tables for average life span you consult, we die at least with 5 years earlier than the "world", but practically with 10 years!
-->So that now the men retire roughly at 65 years, and not only that they begin at once to die (but really /_at once_/, I have an example with a former colleague of mine, who made 3 years after the pension yet did not make the 4-th), but also according to the statistics must live till about 70, maybe a pair of years above; now, the women live at least till 75, but they already from 45-50 are grannies (both, look as such, and feel as such, they tire pretty fast, and are no good at all to live up to the retirement age). So that, for one thing, the men live on the average 5-6 years after the retirement, at most 10 years, and only if they are between the happy 10 or so percents (let me now not enter into details but it is so, up 80 years people practically /_cease_/ to die, live as much as they can) then they can do also about 15 years, but, gentlemen, pension insurances are calculated for average life after the retirement /_at least_/ 15 (and the correct number is 20) years. The women live longer, this is clear, but they just push it somehow further, walk around in the open, sit at the benches, yet how they break down as personalities after their climax (i.e. at most about 50), in the same way after 60 they are already absolute grannies, but they are also the most badly hit (because they wanted emancipation -- it serves them right, let now this emancipation goes them out through the nose [like the milk by some babies, when they sucked it too eagerly, this is Bulgarian idiom]) and they suffer more severe some 5 years before retirement.
-->So that, gentlemen, I do not overdo, if one is not with hide of a bison, or does not decide to shot himself about the 60-ies (how Hemingway has done), and if he is from the working people, not from the not big number of owners, then our transition led only to new cataclysms.
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==>*_SONJOTKA 25-th_*
-->
-->But had we other alternative
-->except these miserable horizons gray?
-->Well, sure, if had left-wing powers
-->easier and smoother transition adjusted!
-->
-->Yet then would have UDF
-->with finger in its mouth be left,
-->and it pushed forward, the damned,
-->not to miss and leave to others the fat chunk.
-->
-->So the pear have had its stem,
-->the whole nation is punished for foolishnesses,
-->yet who does not hide snake in his bosom?
-->
-->Comment: Well, gentlemen, my sonjotka is directly brilliant, if you ask me, in it is mentioned everything, syncopically but accurately, so that there will be again stretching of Turkish delights, no other way. Naturally we had alternative, one such alternative could have been the party ASU [ASO in Bulgarian], which hardly someone remembers, but it was the first "shell" of BCP [Bulgarian Communist Party, BKP for us], called so in order to be read Alternative Socialist Union [yet 'aso' also means an ace as playing card]. But: who wants alternatives in such barbarian country like ours? In countries like us can exist only organized movement to some pole, be it left-wing or right-wing, and if this movement alternates at least in the time, i.e. now to the left, and then to the right, and after this again so, then we can think that have reached some equilibrium (what, of course, is /_not_/ an equilibrium in the real sense, this is ... senile /_tremor_/ of the muscles, this is: neither to the left, nor to the right, to nowhere, but with the /_illusion_/ that we are moving to somewhere). Yet this, anyway, is the better variant, because else we could have moved /_simultaneously_/ to the both poles, i.e. to split the society in two! But I even to this moment continue to think that one alternative left-wing party (maybe a pair of them) would have given something new to the country, because without competition there is no development, while so, with only one left-wing power, it becomes unavoidably mafia, which hinders the natural evolvement of the things.
-->Ah, but this meant for UDF to remain with a finger in its mouth (how it also happened, yet after 10 "hard and memorable" years [this is a phrase from a belletristic work]), what did not happen, and probably could have not happened then, because behind its back stood, and still stands (by God, this is so, people support the right-wing powers) roughly speaking the half of Bulgarian nation (about which can be said nothing encouraging, except that, when we have not much brains, then must now have at least strong back [in order to endure the blows with the cudgel, this is another idiom]). The UDF was the next (in fact, the first right-wing) rope-dancer on the political scene, which is such because the people create him and make him to become such (so that if now we paraphrase the "great" UDF slogan "Uh, down", then we must apply it to the entire Bulgarian population, alas).
-->So that the pear, how our people say, has its stem [i.e. the things continue outside of the concrete case, they are related with other things], and everything evolves logically, if we postulate the people's stupidity and immoderation, the accumulated grudge towards the communist mafia which did not allow the existence of other meanings, the unavoidable desire of everybody to grasp the "bone", when he has this opportunity, and also the wish of the people to ... /_make it harder_/ of the politicians, i.e. to erect their own idols! Now, gentlemen, I explain these things where only I can, so that why not also here (when I have enough place)? The things are ... etymologically buried in the connections between words, and here between your election and erection! Do you get it? The letter 'r' quite naturally mutates in 'l' and v.v., so that there is no way for the people on the West, i.e. the ancient Latins, not to have kept in their heads the relation between the hardening-erection, when one does this alone, and the free-choice-election, when the people are glad to chose their representatives, seeing their "erection" at the helm of the power. The clever person will choose somebody better than him just because he is /_better_/ than him, not because he wants to become exalted like a beast or an infant child.
-->And as to the question about the snake in the bosom of communists, the second echelon communists, whom they did not admit near to the power in order not to spoil the matters, how it also happened later, of course. Here by all evidence seems that there is simply no way out, this lies in the matter of the things, these are dialectical dependences, every thing gives birth to its antipode, and the longer this counteraction is suppressed the brighter and fiercer it manifests itself later, when this becomes possible; but not to suppress it at all is also not good, and everything is reduced to the great compromise, which we are not able to do.
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==>*_SONJOTKA 26-th_*
-->
-->What does not mean that is BeSePe
-->the only might on the field.
-->Oh no, but it is at least left-wing,
-->while the right-wing is garbage and straw!
-->
-->Besides, only they are Russophiles,
-->and the others are -phobes like microbes!
-->Yet we have sprouted from Slavs,
-->we have been such even as slaves.
-->
-->So that for me, as Bulgarian ethnically,
-->only Slavonic affinity is decent,
-->although I am not more typical by us.
-->
-->Comment: Ah, my 'lokumi'-delights, little 'lokumi'! I again repeat myself, but this may be for good, because not a single repetition is the same, I always look that there was something new, some new angle or nuance, so that to appear a new element, or the learned to be strengthened. (F.ex. I could have never repeated the same phrases, how does each cashier in today's supermarkets, I would have tried to say something at least with an '/_jota_/' [jot for you] more different, but not with the same words and intonation, this is for me the shortest way to the stupidity, yet the people in the shops exactly this /_want_/ to do, to stun and bamboozle the client with what they only can, this is considered a good style in the contemporary crazy world.)
-->So that the BSP [the /_same_/ also by us, Bulgarian Socialist Party] is not the single left-wing power, yet it is left-wing, only pro-forma, really (when they can introduce the most /_right_/-wing flat tax, something contradicting not only to the socialist, but also to the capitalist tendencies, contradicting with the common sense, because it is clear that you can, and this makes sense, to take something from the one who has, not from the one who has not), but probably something left-wing has remained in it in an embryonic form and simply waits favourable conditions in order to appear. It is true that for the moment this does not appear (and I, if sometime decide to begin to vote, would not vote for this party, rather for the ... [Turkish] MRF, if I have no other choice, but not for it), yet the other people, the nation as a whole, are far from being as clever as me, so that they are a /_necessary_/ party, and a party with some idea, not only because are strong in the moment (which moment will sometime disappear, and the strong one will become weak). Because you see that the BSP, passes some time or not, and it again goes ahead, while the other parties, after they come down and disappear entirely from the horizon -- take some Business Block, take some peasant's parties, take one party that never managed to come to the right /_name_/ for it and remained with the working name NMSS [National Movement Simeon the Second, NDSV in Bulgarian], and take also the party of one firefighter's general, which after its coming down will never rise up, rest assured. While the BSP resurrects like the bird phoenix, ah? (And what if I decide also to /_vote_/ for it some day? Because Jotata in some sense is like a ... sunflower, and if he takes the whiff that somewhere the sun of /_reason_/ is trying to shine, he will in a jist orient himself to it.)
-->Then about this, that the right-wing is garbage and straw [chaff in the original] I will have the possibility to stretch 'lokumi' as much as I want after a while, so that let us move to the Russophilia. Now look, the point here is not only that I am a Slav and speak -- as well also like it -- Bulgarian language, here important is also this, that I more and more convince myself that the Slavonic nations, as descendants of more ancient /_eastern_/ nations (Hindus, Chinese, Persians, Arabs, and others), are simply more /_peaceful_/ than the western ones, who have chosen for sample-paragon exactly the most /_un_/suitable ancient nation, the Greek one, which people are ready to argue (in this case exist one indecent but very accurate Bulgarian phrase, like a "fruit stone on a bottom orifice") for everything at all (say, that the Turkish coffee is ... Greek one, no matter that the whole world knows it as Turkish), and to fight just so, out of 'babaitlyk'-bravado. This is very slippery matter and nothing can be defined exactly, so that it might be that I am a bit mistaken, yet I think that this is so, at least in the /_current_/ times, because now not the East is the one that commits genocides, incites world wars, throws atomic bombs, et cetera, but exactly the West, and even the utmost West, the Americans!
-->Well, on the background of immoderate staggering to the West I am not a typical example, yet I still think that am right, and, after all, everybody has his right to have personal affinity, it is not reasonable if we all rush in one direction only, somebody has to oppose to this, and that one usually is the more intelligent.
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==>*_SONJOTKA 27-th_*
-->
-->But left-wing not at all means BeSePe,
-->for me this means that it's /_not_/ BeSePe;
-->whatever other left-wing power
-->will be for me than BeSePe /_twice_/ better!
-->
-->Because they are mafia, this is obvious,
-->they stop in embryo every mutation,
-->stick a fist under your nose every hour --
-->for me this is pitiful constatation!
-->
-->I am for uniting and collectivism,
-->but along with this also individualism,
-->not bogus, insincere populism.
-->
-->Comment: Ah, it is clear that here is the moment to level the BSP with the ground, and I will do this, yet (as a moderate man) I will point out also mitigating circumstances. Now, look, in two words, people don't like the left-wing! And this chiefly for this reason, that they /_know_/ that the left-wing are /_right_/, it is obviously clear that for some 90 - 95 percents of people the only way to become stronger (in the world of the strong, in which we live) is to unite themselves with other weaker like them, and in this way, with common efforts and under common banner, to increase their strength through their mass. This is obvious at least from the moment of appearing of the proverb "Divide and conquer" or "Divide et impera", but the latter is from Roman times, so that at least from before 2 millenniums (yet if we take into account that the Romans are Gyp..., pardon me, some Hindus, then this means also from the Sanskrit). The people don't like the sermons of left-wing, which join with those of all religions, I think that this is clear, because they don't like to be taught how to live (and above all don't like to be taught what to do exactly those, who do /_not_/ know well what to do and are /_in need_/ of instructions, of course), while the right-wing allow all kinds of freedoms, only that they say: let us fight and see who will turn to be right.
-->And there is one more moment, which is in this, that the weak, as a rule, are more, well, mean, nasty, /_dishonest_/, and so on, or in one word, /_worse_/, so that it turns out that there are, in fact, /_no_/ reasons for the weak to be liked! Now, I do not state that this is always true, and it quite often is not, but the people, in their desires for generalizations, think exactly so, and this is fixed in many languages, where the classical (for me) example is English "mean", what you know that (except to signify) means also average, yet /_also_/ cruel, malicious! And in order not to remain with the impression that only the English are such misanthropes I will quote also Italian /_sinistro_/, what means left, yet also harmful, dark. So that it is so, and this is correct constatation in the general case (and this question is cognate with that about the woman as cause of all misfortunes from deep antiquity), and the simplest explanation of Jotata in this case is that they, being weak, have simply no other way to show their superiority (what they have not) via honest duel, only through some villainy! Did you get it?
-->Yet on the other (or the first) hand they are majority, and they must do something in order to defend the interests of the majority, it is not suitable for them to fight like knights (which fights do not happen in life, these are inventions or ostentatious games). The left-wing are bound to clench into a fist, in order to win, what is the same like our fable about Khan Kubrat [back in the 7-th century] and the bundle of sticks, which turns to be not ours but Latin, and it applies with the same force also to the right-wing, the fascists, i.e. this is a /_fascist_/ slogan. Anyway, the extreme left- and right- wing must form some coalition, i.e. they /_don't_/ succeed to do this, but it would have been very nice if they could have done so, because then they would have automatically escaped the extremes and become the ideal /_middle_/, and precisely because of this their depersonalization they do not want to do this -- if you have succeeded to assimilate these judgments!
-->So that the left-wing do not lack motivations for all of their shortcomings, they are such because this is necessary, they don't allow stratification in their party because otherwise they will be easily defeated, don't allow change of the course, declare themselves against any innovations (like also every church sticks to its dogmas), all this is justified, yet notwithstanding this, at least from the standpoint of a sober intellectual, they could have been also more tolerant and more moderate. Yeah, but in this way thinks a person like Jotata, who has not yet led the masses to anywhere, so that he may also be wrong.
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==>*_SONJOTKA 28-th_*
-->
-->And /_vivat_/ for the right-wing I do not sing,
-->because there is in it no /_idea_/!
-->It is brute force, suitable for peasants,
-->who are good only to wave flags.
-->
-->If something is true, this with /_reason_/ is proved,
-->with discussions, numbers, experiments,
-->and who is able only strength to show
-->he cracks from silliness in the fine moments.
-->
-->So that let ... do the blow job all right-wings,
-->because these are people with brains so narrow,
-->that are for me not at all interesting.
-->
-->Comment: Well, and now I will level also the right-wing with the ground, yet without mitigating circumstances (except the human /_stupidity_/, if they so much insist to have at least one excuse). Because, obviously, the strength is /_not_/ right, it is simply strong, no more no less than this! In the right-wing there is no idea, at least in my view at the idea as akin to ... the god, i.e. the relation un Latin between idea and /_deo /deus /theos_/. I not only that see nothing divine in the right-wing, but the idea is something immaterial, something utopian and chimerical, if you want, but nice, something to what we want (and have the need) to strive, yet not necessarily reaching it, or reaching it by asymptote, i.e. reaching it all the time, or then when we reach it we have to hurry to /_change_/ this with another unreachable idea. While the strength is brute strength, it is not, and can not be idea, and when it is set then it will inevitably be changed with another strength and people will forget it. The right-wing is good only in the animal world, because there it fulfills the "God's" instructions for selection of the stronger, but by the humans the strength far away from always is physical, it can, definitely, be in our /_weakness_/ (to apply force), what, again from etymological standpoint leads us to Greek /_sofia_/-wisdom, what at least we, in the city of wisdom, so to say, should have understood (but it is quite clear that we do /_not_/ understand it -- why should have the outsiders of Europe turn to be the greatest geniuses on this world?).
-->So that the right-wing, really, is for uneducated peasants (and housewives, and those in the puberty), and it, really, is related with waving of flags, burning of fires and dances around them, eventually with faces smeared with the blood of killed animal (or, for change, with burning of Komsomol membership cards, cries like "Uh, down", or in a little more contemporary variant "The Gypsies to soap!" ). I don't invent this, because in Italian /_la fascia_/ ('fasha') is a tape, ribbon, and /_il fascio_/ is bunch, bundle. And if you still don't understand why and how have arisen these words, then OK, Jotata will explain also this to you: it is because when you burn a fire and some a bit greeny twigs, which are always present in a fire, when heat up say 'fyss' [or then to recall you the word "fuss"]. While the Sanskrit symbols and the broken-crosses-swastikas are additional evolvements on the 'fyss' theme. But as far as (and fortunately) the other people are not so intelligent like your Jota (else life would have been terribly dull, without whatever actions), then I accept the existence of right-wing parties, as long as they are not so right-wing, that more right than this to mean left-wing; I would have complied with them, when necessary, but would have not joined them (better with the Turks, than with inflated generals, if you will excuse this outburst of mine).
-->From the said till here I hope that it becomes clear that the right-wing and left-wing are not completely mirror images, they are not just a matter of taste, but of intellect, of worldview, education, et cetera. And right-wing united with some aristocratic idea is, still, somehow more logical, by some hereditary structure may be supposed existence of positive moments (otherwise it wouldn't have lasted long), while right-wing led by youngsters (or, possibly, feldwebels, is aqua nuda and mud over the ears, how we have said in the years of my youth); it might be that such big number of fascist parties by us have appeared because we have no more Komsomol members, whether I know, and the young wants to be led by somebody (be it even to a precipice, or to a stagnation called "bright future" -- the important thing is for it to be something unchangeable, like the Christian paradise).
-->Yet, well, so be it, who from the right-wing has still not learned to do the blow job, then he can, in the end, not blow it, he can ... suck it, I allow this exception!
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==>*_SONJOTKA 29-th_*
-->
-->And then, the center is a big deal,
-->even when it is a mean clique,
-->because it is very difficult to be achieved,
-->for this neither strength nor reason are enough.
-->
-->It is moderate, peaceful, constant,
-->compromising and evolutionary;
-->it must be first attempt, early one,
-->and only when if fails then to be kicked out.
-->
-->When it is strong it is good
-->(nearly as nice round woman's ... thigh),
-->but this is rarity, often it is full with disharmony.
-->
-->Comment: Wow, I was so fascinated by this my sonjotka, that lost my mind and now don't know with what to begin! Because here I am not spitting, I praise things, and speak also about thighs ([and here comes some pun because I use Turkish or Gypsy word 'badzhaci', and begin to philosophize that it is related with 'badzhanaci'-husbands-of-two-sisters, what may as well have the similar idea]), and this softened me a little, made me sentimental, I longed for two ordinary woman's thighs, instead of to educate and entertain the disappearing as nation Bulgarians, but the work is work, it is for the benefit of the genus [put in old Russian], so that let me continue.
-->Not that I will surprise you with some new thoughts, because when one passes after the middle of some work, he has already faced the main problems, has touched the basic moments, laid the ground, so to say, and it remains now only to strengthen the colours here and there and the chef d'oeuvre will be ready. So that the centre must be respected, if not for other reasons, then at least for this, that it is hardly attainable, this contradicts to the basic human (as well animal) aspirations to extremities, and it is in many cases a matter of /_art_/ (while an extreme party can lead even an imbecile; for this reason Jotata proposes such middle-of-the-road and centrist party, this NAPUK, which is in such extent reasonable, that for the moment, it seems, /_not a single_/ nation is mature enough for it, yet be it even so, it is better to propose an idea, so that to allow the silly human masses to reject it, to offer them one more pleasure).
-->By us the centre is pretty strange, yet I will move to this in the next chapter; this, what is important for one centrist party, is that it must not be greedy for enrichment, not to rush into battle, to search compromises everywhere, to defend the average human masses, and to be so good, that to impose no need to go to extremities, no matter left- or right- wing. The former communists only imagine that they are center, but they are not even this, they are one /_misunderstanding_/, because the most difficult thing is to come from one end to the middle, easier is to go to the other end. The tsarist party was not a center, it was masterfully evolved by a clever (really) Hebrew /_fraud_/, and he can be proud that has succeeded to stun and bamboozle one whole nation, but nothing more, and even if it was, then it is /_not more_/ center, because does not count [it has practically disappeared]. The NAPUK party /_may_/ become a center, but will not become really, as I said, I have gone ahead of the time, not only in Bulgaria, also in a world scale. Farmer's or peasant's [in Bulgarian this is the same word] party by us can not exist, this is not possible already in whatever country, .because with agriculture are occupied at most 10 % of the population. About party of intellectuals there can be no question, because the intellectuals are such motley "breed", that can not organize itself, but even if they could have done this the population will not understand them, this will be voice in a desert; but intelligent /_leaders_/ of some centrist party, or generally of party with /_reasonable_/ platform, can exist, of course, if they will not strive for themselves but for the others (to remind you that the party of Lenin was led by intellectuals, and by us Botev was not 'Sulju or Pulju' [nincompoop], also Marx, etc.). But which will be the middle masses is the question?
-->Well, logically looked at the things (because Jotata simply can't look in other way), it turns that most wider become the masses of small owners, if we allow them to become this and do not suffocate them in embryo with the multinationals (how it as if happens by us). This is not a stable layer, because they, naturally, will strive to become very rich, but theoretically, or for some time, this is possible. Or else of employed workers, yet chiefly from the sphere of /_services_/, i.e. /_not_/ fabric workers, and /_not_/ farmers, only as an exception intellectuals, but to work for the others, this automatically puts them in the middle of something (but in this sense such are also the: teachers, medics, drivers, policemen, true services, and similar professions).
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==>*_SONJOTKA 30-th_*
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-->By us, alas, is minoritary it,
-->but is monolithic and first-rate!
-->It only then can split in groups,
-->when the minority becomes fatter.
-->
-->Well, if there comes party Chinese,
-->Arabic, Gypsy, who knows which,
-->then will begin to "weep our mother",
-->yet so far it has not kindled a fire.
-->
-->Because Turks, or with any other gene,
-->is not important, who how is born;
-->the money only messes up the things some day.
-->
-->Comment: Well, also here I have said everything in syncopic form in the verse, but the readers don't know what is hidden in the Jota's head, so that let me clear some points. So the main thesis here is that the Turks are center because they are one party and because they are still minority, and when so then they are /_forced_/ to defend the interests of /_all_/ Turks (or also Roma, and maybe Arabs, too), but if they will become many people and begin to stratify and will appear several Turkish parties in Bulgaria, then this will be something bad. For the moment, however, this center is monolithic, yet I am not convinced that the other people are aware of /_why_/ exactly this is so, why they are centrists, and the answer is simple, it in this that the Turks are like the Bulgarians (or, say, the ... Chukchi people), there are rich and poor between them, clever and silly, and so on, and when so, in order to please everybody, there must be raised and defended goals wanted and understood by the common masses, that's it!
-->In addition to this the Turks, until they have become or realized themselves as main ethnic community in Bulgaria, have not and can't have different interests than the peaceful life in our country, they don't pretend to be leading, they /_may_/ become such, if necessary, but this will create new problems for them, so that I don't think that they insist on this. The inventions, that they wanted to separate from Bulgaria, even if they have had /_sometime_/ such intentions, now, after our inclusion in EU, are long ago not actual, and they, surely, don't want to go to Diyarbakir, f.ex., they want to move more to the West, like every other Bulgarian, so that they, by God, make no obstacles for us, and will even try to show that they are /_Bulgarians_/, not Turks! This is so, because there are enough Turks in Europe (as if only in Germany they make as much as one whole Bulgaria), while the Bulgarians are significantly less. What does not mean that I like so much this Turkish /_non_/-minoritary minority, I would have wanted that by us were as much Russians, as, if not Turks, then at least Gypsies, or no less than the half of the Gypsies (and the traditional and uninviting labour, which the latter fulfill by us, could have quietly be taken by the Chinese, they are ready to everything, solely to be able to populate the whole world), i.e. there will not arise big problems if some shuffling of ethnical shifts by us happens. So that I don't want to be commanded by Turks, but if this is so necessary, then why not, important is the person, and by them the barbarity, on the religious background, is much more weaker than ours. And the Islam, after all, is more up-to-day and progressive religion than the Christianity, I think that the whole West has already got this, or else the Buddhism -- what bad will happen if the Bulgarians will at last /_awake_/ for the Buddhism [where by this stressing on the word "awake" I mean that Buddha was not a god but he was called The /_Awakener_/, and to awake in Bulgarian is 'budja' -- hence this Buddha has left traces in Slavonic languages, as person trying to awake the conscience of the humans]?
-->This what hinders one nation to become more united is first of all the money, the property inequality, but gentlemen, this is fundamental communist thesis (or testis, ah, I got confused with the languages). The money-/_moneta_/ is bad because it fulfills two functions, of medium of exchange, and of means of exploitation, where the thing for exchange is necessary and natural, but the one who has money to command is /_not_/ natural, the natural thing is this to be that one who has more brains, isn't it so? In the sense that an intellectual accepts /_any_/ kind of power (simply because without ruling is impossible, the anarchy is absurd nowadays), more than this, even /_improper_/ but organized ruling is in many cases preferable, because when all move in one direction after a time it turns for it to have become correct, it is paving a way to there (like it happened with the communism, which was utopia, but nice, damn it). So that this, what we can wish for, is one strong center, if not of one party then of coalition, yet not such ruling that leads to stratifying of the society, be it only in left- and right- wing.
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==>*_SONJOTKA 31-st_*
-->
-->But do not think that are scoundrels
-->only those who want fame and money;
-->while the common people appreciate these things
-->they will be valued also in the tops.
-->
-->The people, look, their politicians --
-->no matter that the latter lead them by the nose --
-->form, knead, as if make ... doughnuts,
-->and in this is the essence of the trouble.
-->
-->So the politicians are just artists
-->and their consciences are often clear,
-->they are not, say, nasty as worms.
-->
-->Comment: Retold in two words this sonjotka says that /_only we_/ are guilty for our troubles that befell us, and that the crisis or catastrophe (like if was often argued in the first pair of years of the transition) began /_after_/ the transition, not before it and by the fault of the communists, it began by the fault of the hasty transition, which was such due to the impatience of the UDF, not because of the necessity of transition (which, surely, was initiated by the very communists, let us not forget this). Now, I am trying to exonerate also the common people, who, having no criterion for good and bad, take for granted that the one who has succeeded to accumulate money is good, irrespective of how he has accumulated them, because the property is seen, while the intellect can't be seen, but every nation, even the most barbarous, has some /_inborn_/ notions for good and bad, they simply should not have been forgotten (while our first democratic steps were exactly, let me remind this to the young generation, in the legalization of prostitution, in the abolition of state's monopoly and lessening of excise duties on a big amount of goods, and similar things). Id est, in our first pair of turbulent years we have succeeded to make so many errors and deviations from the right path, that we later even for 20 years can't manage to mend, and our development, at least since the entering of our Money Board in force, consists in a slow and moderate, yet steady and constant /_returning_/ to the common sense, from which we swerved because of our "alcoholism" to the freedom.
-->And now let me clear a little the point, who rules under the democracy. It is clear that these are /_not_/ the common people, they are asked practically about nothing (like nobody asked us about the Money Board, and about our entering in NATO, and about whatnot), rule the politicians, but they can not be capable while are elected by incompetent 'Suljus' and 'Puljus', yet not this is the worse of the democracy. The worst is that the common people /_form_/, knead the politicians like doughnuts, make them to dance to their tune, as far as this is possible, and under this system reasonable ruling can happen only as /_exception_/, if some politician has succeeded to /_pretend_/ to be stupid, to be such that the people liked him, and when he rises higher only then to "show his horns", or if there happened to exist well organized party, which can choose the capable persons, because it is smaller group and in it can /_happen_/ (but again not as a rule) to exist also capable rulers. I don't state that the question with the choice of rulers is easy, it is, in fact, the most difficult for every country, but we have managed from all alternatives to choose nearly the worst one.
-->Even if we take that the ideal politician must be very capable, under this system of /_outwitting supply_/, he will rarely succeed to come to the top even in a single party, because his colleagues will envy him and will try to push him down (how it has happened under the cult of personality, where have moved upward not the capable in the real sense, but exactly the flatterers and rope-dancers). These are problems that will exist always, such is the humane material with which we work, but the choice from below is the most /_stupid_/ possible thing and it relies unavoidably on this, that the common people decide only about /_in_/significant questions, and if it is not so then they are not asked!
-->Id est, you see, /_all_/ are for their part right, and some of them really try to do what they can, despite the malicious environment in which they work, but the successes are few and dubious, because the questions are not solved in principle, or they are principally unsolvable, yet nobody tries to solve them correctly, but only manipulates the masses, which alone /_beg_/ to be deceived (what says the Latin proverb: /_Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur_/).
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==>*_SONJOTKA 32-nd_*
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-->If there was not this feedback
-->I would have not carried out this impudent criticism,
-->because the people their sacred will
-->to express is a right thing, all over the world.
-->
-->But this is done with various questionnaires,
-->for which there are no problems in the Internet,
-->yet facts, measures, actions, packages;
-->by appearance are chosen ... #sses!
-->
-->So that here, in political plan,
-->everybody feels like ... pissed off,
-->because the democratic system is spoiled!
-->
-->Comment: Well, as I see, I have run a bit ahead of some explanations, but the things are related, and a little repetition is necessary, because they are the most important, the ruling. Now, in the system ruling - population, the people serve as feedback for the ruling, and this relation is very important and there is no go without it, yet it turns out that from the standpoint of people the politicians become in their turn feedback for the people, and they show influence over the people, and everyone, who has heard even a little about some cybernetical or social principles, knows that there are two kinds of such feedback, positive and negative, where the better one are not the first but the second! Id est, a given system is stable if the feedback /_weakens_/ the direct action, and if it amplifies it, then this quite soon leads to explosion. But when the common people choose their politicians then the latter try to adapt to the wishes of the people, this is called populism, but this is action in the same direction, i.e. the relation here is positive, or, put in Latin: /_circolo vicioso_/. In addition to this, the relation, if we start from the people to the politicians, is not necessarily positive, but it isn't negative, it is non-essential, and as such incorrect, i.e. the people want from the politicians not proper ruling (because they have no knowledge about this, do not understand such questions, if the common people have known this there would have been no necessity of politicians), but choose them by their appearance, how one chooses a home pet, or sex partner, something of the kind, and this simply confuses the things.
-->The right thing is to ask the people chiefly about their meaning on a fait accompli, when some law or decision is ready, and often, all the time, yet under the arrangement that the ruling can pay no attention to the meaning of the people (as incompetent), and also this, that a good ruler must simply know what the people want, this is formulated brilliantly in the famous phrase: /_Panem et circenses_/, or Bread and circuses). So that the people must be asked, and often, yet /_not_/ about this, about what they are asked under the democracy, because it is pure and obvious /_bamboozling_/, but for meaning about already taken (or, possibly, future) decisions, not about this, which politician must be elected, in this way can be elected, well, not exactly #sses, but then whores! Please, try to grasp, that the incompetent choice can /_in no way_/ become competent when it is conducted openly and honestly, in this way is only legalized the cheating, but it is not called off!
-->Now, will remark someone (who follows my twisted thoughts), when it is so, then why do not the politicians ask the people about this, what is necessary (even if accompanied with questions that are not at all necessary), ah? Well, very simple, because the common people will mess the things even /_more_/ than only the politicians; it is one thing to have some incompetent politician amidst a bunch of relatively competent (in the cheating) politicians, and it is quite another thing to have a whole bunch of laics at a highest state's level (and, I beg my readers to be excused, but this laymen-/_laicus_/ word is related with that Gypsy word that begins like belling of hounds and ends on 'no' [What is another pun understandable only to Bulgarians, but the salt of it is that, sorry, a sh#t is 'lajno', and the dogs by us don't bark, they 'lajat', say 'lau' -- what is pretty near to the sound the ... lions emitted according to the ancient nations, some 'lhau']). OK, but let us not forget -- and this is surely exactly the thing that we forget -- that the democracy has arisen in Ancient Greece in one developed society, which has even begun to fall apart, without specially uniting goal, but just to live easier, and that by us we transferred to it by similar circumstances (i.e. half a century after the last world war, in a time not only of peace, but of stagnation), and that one such /_distracting_/ from the essence (for the /_lack_/ of it) ruling can have some advantages, strengthening the offered to the people circuses. Yes, only that later, after the first pair of years, when we spent our miserable totalitarian Levs, appeared clear goal, our survival, and exactly here we got stuck, this is why now each Bulgarian feels himself like pissed off by the democracy, and this with reasons.
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==>*_SONJOTKA 33-rd_*
-->
-->It is good only to make changes
-->of those, of whom we are no longer delighted,
-->but this goes when the people are satiated,
-->not when are with bent from poverty backs.
-->
-->Necessary are cares for the /_whole_/ population,
-->in order to stop the flow of emigrants,
-->because many people take this for ... scaffold,
-->and our country -- shelter for old nags!
-->
-->So that here is necessary a new might,
-->called by Jotata party ... NAPUK,
-->with help of which to think for /_one another_/.
-->
-->Comment: But of course, after I have already proposed a party and have written its Manifesto, Program, and moral Codex, it is quite naturally that I will advertise it, I can't wait for this to be done by our Authorities or Public, because they ignore me totally. Yet the truth is this, with what I finished before, that the democracy is good when we have no other special problems for solving and put on the ostentatious, circussy side of the things, or, otherwise put, when we need change of personalities and general line, when we are ready to cry: "Uh, down!", not to build something. Yeah, but somebody must also build something, because we have long ago decomposed the accumulated by the communists "fats" and "carbohydrates", and have already gone to "protein hunger", which is dangerous for the organism and leads to its perishing! So that it turns out, that how the communism is good mainly like war-time ruling and later becomes annoying and cruel, in the same way also the democracy is good chiefly by aimless and meaningless life, and otherwise begins to taste bitterly to many people. Id est, this /_demo_/-thing is not bad /_platform_/ for changes, but requires intelligent nation, which can distinguish between circuses and real work.
-->Especially for us it is clear that is necessary care for the whole nation, for raising of the threshold of /_misery_/ (if it was about poverty we would have whistled happily), and such measures which will not interfere with the inhumane capitalism, what means such measures that will /_make_/ the capitalism more humane and gentle, especially in the brute period of accumulation of capitals (which usually lasts about 3 generations, or 75 - 80 years, or somewhere till 2070, quite far away for to wait quietly this time to come -- but till that time can also the very capitalism go bankrupt). So that are necessary measure for stopping of the flow of emigrants from us to the West, and even for attracting of favourable for us immigrants from abroad (from Russia and other Slavonic countries), because until this happens (i.e. at least to /_begin_/ to happen) will continue the old tendencies, which lead to disappearing of our nation! And, generally, we must not give grounds for the assertion, that our country is scaffold for the young and capable, and is good only for those who have already "sung their song" and are only waiting to die, because the young is this that supports the old one, and when the young is not here then also the old will suffer from this. And, in general, the example that our country gives, compared with the other part at least of Europe, is very bad for the adolescents, this must pure and simple be stopped (yet in a reasonable and liberal way, not with prohibitions but via some form of interest for the people to remain here -- say, that here they can lead quieter life, or that will be allowed partial retiring above 50 years, or that they will have various /_Comphylas_/ or voluntarily chosen families, and other things).
-->Yet if you think that now I will begin to retell my ideas from the NAPUK party then you must be sure that are wrong (read the very materials). This, what I can summarise is, that the idea is this to be one such party, which is second to none, and to deny all other parties (because we don't need to have /_parts_/ but unity), which will be perfect center, because will think about the rich and the poor, and without interference with the society of capitals (as far as this is possible), which will unite the people and make them work for the /_others_/, not for themselves (i.e. to think for ourselves only /_through_/ the though for the others, not v.v.), which will allow decent individual evolvement for everybody, will return the healthcare and social insurances from the time of totalitarianism, will better the image of politicians like cultic workers, not scroungers, will enhance the care for the people without lessening the circuses, and similar things.
-->
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==>*_SONJOTKA 34-th_*
-->
-->Because we are poor but do /_not_/ work,
-->we like our old ... knickers,
-->and with income five to ten /_times_/
-->under the average for Europe is brewing
-->
-->a wave of people's discontent, but now,
-->without escape goat, we are quite worse,
-->so that either with laziness our sufferings
-->we lessen, or -- jump abroad, like a goatling!
-->
-->If we will not manage to do so, that by us
-->will be with a tiny /_bit_/ better, then I bet
-->that we will as nation melt like ... fried leek!
-->
-->Comment: OK, this about the fried leek I have put because of the rhyme, but this is true, it slumps about 3 times. Though let us begin from the beginning, where you can't help but admit that till now no one in Bulgarian literature has rhymed work with knickers ['pab`oti' with 'kjuloti'], am I right? But, however it is, the important thing is that we don't work, there are not at all few the people who are satisfied with the abundance of discarded things and don't want to waste their organisms to work in order to buy new rubbish (because the new things are, in the most of the cases, one-day things, made not only automated but also robotized, one will find more pleasure to make alone even a ... toothpick, than to buy everything ready). And then, the difference above 5, and practically 10 /_times_/ is terrifying, gentlemen, even if it was so earlier, under the totalitarianism, we did not feel this, while now it will prick our eyes. So that how has said one acerbic poet [Jordan Jovkov] before me: when there is no nice living [or survival, thriving], then spat have I in this destiny! Because the proverb: "To no purpose work, but don't stay to no purpose", sounds good, yet there are not many those people who stick to it. Because of this I insist on my NAPUK party, on finding of other stimuli except the material ones, because the human is not unfeeling, he thinks about his belly (and that is below it), but in certain limits, yet to waste himself just so, for nothing, to throw efforts to the blowing wind, rarely happens, in such cases our people say that it is better if somebody else does the blowing, right?
-->And the escape goat is important moment; I don't want to indulge in deep explanations, but you know that for the West this is some goat [while for the Slavs this is just a victim], whom the people have beaten instead of his guilty owner. Our Uncle Tosho has fulfilled this function for a pair of years, but later the man simply died, we tried still to excuse ourselves with the communists (who have carried out everything valuable abroad), but also in this will hardly someone believe now (more so after the deserved collapse of the UDF). The real culprit, if we take out some objective causes, is our whole nation, its barbarity, but here nothing can be done, the nation, good or bad, must be endured, it must be useful for something when has become a nation. ( Because of this I have long ago come to the conclusion that one can fight with the dictatorship and overcome it, it changes one day, if not for other reasons then with the death of the dictator, he is mortal, plus that he strongly influences it, every new dictator differs with something, while it is not so with the democracy, alas, with the means of democracy it is practically impossible to overcome it, this is the same as to try to break some wall with your head -- like your Jota tries to come to the tops of our Public, but this work is not done so, there, at the tops, nobody is interested whether you are right or wrong, there they look only at this, who ... sends you, i.e. what power stays /_behind_/ you, and if such power is missing then you are not counted. )
-->So that more working from our people for this money no one will get, not if is put only on the money, without any social cares. Let us make some simple arithmetic: if the minimal salary by us is 6 times lower than in an averagely taken Western country, then it turns out that if one works there even on a half-day basis, illegally, without insurances, and so on, then he is bound to get at least 3 times more, and these are times, gentlemen; he is excluded from the society there (like also Jotata here, because has studied too /_much_/ -- I don't remember whether have told you this trifle), but later, when he returns here, he begins to be counted for human, and so with about 10 years emigration, dear to nobody, wretched and unloved [this is a catchphrase from our literature], he weaves his basket, in order to buy one of the new flats, that were built in large quantity in our capital Sofia, and which can't be bought by somebody else working here all his life. So that, gentlemen, some /_tiny bit_/ better, whatever, not much for beginning, but otherwise nobody will remain here, I am convinced in this.
-->
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==>*_SONJOTKA 35-th_*
-->
-->You just think: those who work hard,
-->and lay "eggs" each day like brooding hens,
-->they tear their #sses but is not seen
-->salvation, they will catch ... hemorrhoids!
-->
-->The quiet life has now disappeared,
-->we are stressed every God's day,
-->and the democracy is swindle,
-->and the communism is far remote.
-->
-->The West is also rotten but abundant,
-->life even on the bottom is acceptable,
-->and is goal for us, and also more stylish.
-->
-->Comment: There is again a little 'lokumi' pause, because I have explained these things. Yet it is so, those who work and simply can't believe (you ask whoever you want at an age of 30-40) that they will endure sometime whole 40 years of work, this is awful, not only do not show whatever conscientiousness (except the minimal one, for to flatten the boss), but also look quite formally at the work (it isn't their property, in order to think much), and in result of this are angry at everybody, at their colleagues and at everyone met, and even more so at someone poorer than them (i.e. miserable, no matter why). The hemorrhoids here must have been understood in transferred meaning [as well also for the funny rhyme], but for some people, if they sit all the time (say, at the cashiers desk of a store), they may happen to be quite real (some such bulges full with blood, their own, and exactly at the "exit", so to say -- by Jotata such things do not exist, but he eats the egg's ... /_shells_/, they probably help /_also_/ for this, because strengthen the joints and blood vessels, but these things, too, are explained somewhere in my Letter).
-->The quiet life, really, does not more exist, because there exist strengthened exploitation (because this is what we wanted, of course), the communism has gone /_to the movies_/ (as if from 6 to 5, if I am not wrong here), but the democracy also turned to be /_aqua nuda_/ (yet not mineral). The life now is hard and tough not only because of the competition, but also because for everything must be paid, say, for education, medical services, transport, et cetera, while earlier all this was either entirely free (in the moment of necessity, of course, nothing falls from the blue), or just symbolic, and the price is the most important characteristic of every product. Without many words is clear that it is good to pay for everything if you can /_allow_/ this, right? And if you can't, this, /_volens-nolens_/ [simplified to willy-nilly in English], stresses, shortens the life, and most of all (if you ask me) hinders one to develop /_himself_/, to discover his (put in him by the dear God, and managed by his father's ... cock) potentialities! This is the most unpleasant moment, sirs, because only reckless exploitation is not a good approach in the long run, this is like to want to get out of the earth everything at once, without giving it a break, changing the agricultures, and so on (I understand not a jot from agriculture, but this is the idea). Good personal development receive the employees in the big companies, where the latter touch carefully and appreciate their staff, yet even by them /_not_/ during the initial accumulation of capitals, when the capitalism is the worst.
-->So that by us, again, is worse than on the West, only that earlier was worse in the sense of standard of life and goods, while now these things have levelled off, the vessels became connected, so to say, but the bad thing is that we work hard for nothing, while on the West it is not exactly so, there one has bigger choice. The West is not only more affluent, it is also more moral, there the people believe in something (say, that, well, the capitals command the parade, money makes the world go round, yet without capitals you can also be useful with something both for the others and for yourself, as long as you do your work conscientiously and are not greedy for much, so that to enter in the sphere of fierce struggle). For the majority of people on the West the life is relatively good, the capitalism is overripe (the bad was as if precisely before a century), it smells good, but by us it is not so (because we have scratched out half a century, and with nearly as much we were behind the West also earlier). And there are stressed mainly the rich persons, but not the poor ones, while by us all are equally stressed, so that by us it is, as is said, neither to have, nor not to have! Plus that the West [for our emigrants] is a /_challenge_/ -- let me see whether I am good for there or not --, while by us the stakes are too high to make the game interesting.
-->
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==>*_SONJOTKA 36-th_*
-->
-->And what if we have not made the turn
-->around to the West, if have not heard
-->this their call, but with the Russians
-->were like before 'badzhanaci'-relatives?
-->
-->Looked from today we as if have made a mistake,
-->because, true, they are with lower salaries,
-->but horse we with a ... hen have changed --
-->for there everything is cheaper, what you want!
-->
-->The petrol -- twice, and together all communal
-->expenses with it, and this is not just banal,
-->in this way they live highly /_socially_/.
-->
-->Comment: Ah, exactly this moment is interesting: what if? This is pretty daring assumption, that we could have done otherwise, but, as you know, or have heard, it is spoken already from the Sanskrit about parallel Universes, so that let us try to look in this Universe of preserving of the good old relations with the Russians, even despite the collapse of communism, Comecon, and the entire Bloc. [In the original are used also a pair of Russian words, for more authenticity.] This would have been quite logical, because, damn it, there is the alphabet, Cyrill and Methodius, and except the Russians outside of former USSR, only we have used it, this means something, it might have been beneficial for us, but we did not want this.
-->Now, I am not an economist, but probably there was some way to maintain barter deals with them, or even to enter in this CIS of their (where the very name sounds pretty funny, this is a kind of laughing), because: well, why should the nations go only out of it (i.e. of the former USSR), why not also some countries to enter into it, ah? In any case, if we have managed somehow to carry this out, or at least have not "burst all our bridges", methinks that now we would have been far much better than we are, because (I spoke about this also earlier) Russia is great /_empire_/, gentlemen, this is not just a country, this is even a continent! So that we as if have traded a horse for a hen, how it was told in one fairy tale, very interesting deal, only that we lost in it.
-->Now look, I will dwell on this also in the other chapters, but there are cases in the world history, when there could have been completely different evolvement of the things, if something fundamental was not so but otherwise. F.ex., in the United States, the war between the North and the South could easily have ended otherwise (at least for a long time it has seemed that will win the South and the slavery); or the World War One to have /_solved_/ something and to have been no need of the Second one, exactly when the generation grows up; or the Americans have not thrown the atomic bomb over Hiroshima (but then the current incredibly powerful economy of the /_Japs_/ would have not existed); or the Bulgarians have taken not the Christianity but the Islam, which religion was then new yet already leading one in the Near East (probably in that case there would have not been Russian-Turkish wars, and Europe would have looked quite different with ... mosques in the center of Bonn, Prague, Paris, and perhaps Rome); and other similar things.
-->But let us return to Bulgaria and Russia. If we have somehow endured and survived the first 10 or so years, we would have been now with twice cheaper prices on /_all_/ communal expenses, and for the average Bulgarian they are, roughly speaking, the half of all of his expenses (because I once have cast a look at the prices of petrol in Russia and around the world, and in one day in Russia they were really twice, and as if a bit above this, lower than in US, Germany, etc.). And if you want you look at the prices of bus and other tickets in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Bonn, Paris, Rome, London, etc.; I have done once similar comparison, and it turns that divided by the millions inhabitants of these metropolises (because this is measure for the size of the transport network), so it turns that in Moscow they are about /_10 times_/ cheaper than in the other capitals, including ours (f.ex., in Sofia 1 ticket is 0.8 Euro, in Moscow was about 0.5 Euro, yet there live 12 mln people, and in London there are /_only_/ 8 mln people -- more than the whole Bulgaria -- and there it was 1.7 Euro). In line with this are also the rental prices, and so on, only the food and industrial products are the same like by us or in the West.
-->In two words, if we were with Russia, we would have been (as before) separated from the West with some curtain (financial), but in our country it would have not been felt and we would have lived at least with 30 % cheaper; this is not very much, but our life would have been quite more /_social_/, because these are the communal expenses, expenses for the commune or the socio! Yet there are other moments, that will be cleared in the following points.
-->
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==>*_SONJOTKA 37-th_*
-->
-->If with the Russians we in a tango
-->circled, then we would have /_en gros_/
-->sold them various goods
-->and nobody would have been empty-handed.
-->
-->Left only we from the whole communist Bloc,
-->we would have had a super reputation,
-->because everybody fights for markets,
-->and with barter is the friendship forged.
-->
-->Plus that we were, and are, Europe,
-->to come to us they even jump of joy,
-->but the friendship has faded, kicked the bucked.
-->
-->Comment: And now let us turn attention to the new moments, because we, really, would have been the /_one and only_/ "Russian" (in the sense of pro-Russian) country outside of Russia (Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, and also the Germans, have a grudge against the Russians, already since the Second world war or from later times, but our situation is entirely different), and this surely would have shown impact everywhere. Because, you judge for yourself, if we work with cheaper currency and have lower (but as a whole for the population higher!) standard of life than in EU, this means that all what we can offer to the Russians will be cheaper for them, and they will prefer it before all other importers (Poles, Hungarians, etc.). So this is if we have /_not_/ joined the EU, but the CIS, f.ex. (yet this union could have had another name), anyway, if we have entered in some /_commensurable_/ with us market, because EU is, obviously, incommensurable with us, or vice versa.
-->Ah, gentlemen, I don't know what is so difficult in this what I say, but since the /_beginning of the world_/, no more and no less, the wars are fought, in the end, for /_markets_/; we had enormous, but really enormous market among the Russians, and have swapped it even not for a hen but as if for a single egg, oh-oh! If this was not so then EU would have not required, even before our inclusion in it, to have exchange of goods chiefly with it, but it is so, because -- obvious, yet not for everybody -- we levelled the prices off, connected the market "vessels", but have not connected the salary "vessels", and by 7 times lower incomes (let us say that they are so many times lower, because my income is 7 times lower than the average in Bulgaria, so that let also the latter incomes are 7 times lower than the European ones) everything by us seems for us 7 times more expensive! (What means that 7 * 7 = 49 or Jotata receives /_50 times_/ less than he would have had if he lived on the West in the same way, like he lived in Bulgaria under our Uncle Tosho, yet I put this in parentheses in order not to make my readers too dumbfounded.)
-->By this I mention only the obvious things, without to invent new plusses which the Russians could have offered us, if we were in their market, because they, surely, would have given their best in order to put at least one toe on the Balkan peninsula (and also missile bases together with the "toe"). They would have been even more interested on the background of Ukrainian's turning of the back (both delayed, and by /_real_/ trade preferences in the market of CIS, which they will never have in EU, because of what I mentioned before many chapters that there are sillier than us, the Ukrainians). And then, you may be sure, that in such case to us would have immigrated not Chinese and Arabs (we would have not needed them then) but nice Russian ... /_yokels_/ from Moscow region (in order to mix with our yokels from around Sofia -- because it is so, around each capital gather the biggest peasants).
-->And if you look at average salaries in Russia and us you will see that there they are really a little less than by us, somewhere with 1/4 till 1/3, but on the background of significantly cheaper communal expenses than here this would have not been felt, yet the people as a /_whole_/ would have lived better. Because it is so in the socialist countries (and Russia, at least compared with us, is socialist country even now, i.e. there is paid for education and for healthcare and for everything, yet not on such Western prices like by us, but according with the pocket of the people), while in Bulgaria reigns the possible utmost right-wing capitalism, this from before a century, or from at least more than half of it. Yes, but we do not like our bigger brother and when so joined such new family, where not also the bigger, but also the most little brothers (the Romanians), can use us only as a laughing stock.
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==>*_SONJOTKA 38-th_*
-->
-->We would have been a real oasis,
-->not just platzdarm for missile bases:
-->duty free zone, Hong Kong, of the kind --
-->from here to the East, you stretch a hand!
-->
-->And the latter in its turn also dies
-->to come to us with the same motives,
-->a heel to put, the little toe --
-->who can be surprised by this?
-->
-->But we turned our backs to these advantages,
-->changed them with chimeras that are smoke,
-->only to what we must, we do not strive.
-->
-->Comment: Well, here I continue with the description of one of the parallel Universes, only that I do not suck these things from my fingers, they floated in the air earlier, somewhere around 95-th year. We wanted to become something exactly like Hong Kong, or at least some separate regions, in the towns Varna or Burgas, if I am not wrong, and for quite a lot of time after the transition to us came Serbians on market, to buy goods, because the prices by us were lower than those by them, and they bought everything, cigarettes, loafs of cheese, and whatnot. We were something similar to what I now mention, but gave up all these efforts and preferred later to be pressed by the Board in the mud, just because wanted to look at the West, not at the East or South. But for that East or South we would have been outpost, this what for us is the West, while for the latter we are a deep /_Provence_/, which they use mainly as cheap labour hand; with or without us it is one and the same to EU, the more so because now they are 500 mln inhabitants, while we are on the way to become 5 mln, or 1 % of them (but good place for missile bases, while not, the Gibraltar is a mere rock, yet is good for bases).
-->So that for the East and South we are oasis, really, there are no wars, similar tastes of the population, like, say: kebabs, 'cheverme' [what is not exactly barbecue, this is something put on a 'shish'-stick and rotated over the fire], 'lokumi'-delights, 'baklavi'-'pahlavi' [very sweet desert of baked dough sheets with nuts], 'rakija'-raki [hard drink that can be called brandy but is rather vodka-like, done out of fermented fruits], and other things. And this, what is not very similar to our things, is again good for us, like Jotata has found before 10 years or so, or is at least of advantage for the both parts, and it is that we have 5 to 10 % girls, who are not to our taste, with quite bigger bottoms (methinks that #ss is said if it is masculine, but if is of a girl or child than it has to be a bottom, isn't it?), yet the Arabs seek precisely this, so that both, our girls are glad, and the Arabs, too.
-->And, generally, we are really strategic place, from deep antiquity; we may not be very rich on minerals, but are at least on suitable place, so that we could have bargained a little bit more with the West because of the place, yet nothing of the kind. Damned youth (of the UDF), damned (barbarian) immorality, and damned (nationwide) stupidity, combined with hectic actions in result of our dumbfounding from the boundless freedom, have led to this, that we not only jumped from the one end and stuck exactly at the other, but went out of our usual ruts of a second-rank little nation, with different from the West alphabet, with our own incomprehensible to him culture, poor but proud, used to be -- if you'll excuse me -- #ss and panties with the Russian Grandpa Ivan (and let us not go into details about who exactly was the pants), we at once decided that it is now time to set off en masse to the West, even to cross the Atlantic (with the help of NATO). And it happened as in the tale about the frog and the bull (where is clear that not the West will play the role of the frog but we alone).
-->Pure chimeras were and remain our aspirations to compete with Germans or French, and even with Italians etc., in our organization as nation, for us this is exactly the weakest spot, hence, we will never become leading country in whatever industry, this is absurd, we are nothing even in the agriculture (which as if was our traditional branch), you just cast a look at this whose tomatoes we now eat, or the beans-'fasul' (our traditional dish), or eggs, and a bunch of other goods, we are beaten by every nation that shows desire for this. This is seen also by our mournful efforts to produce personal cars (Bulgar-Renault, if I am not mistaken), or computers /_Pravets_/ (this time all alone, without foreign help), but, how I think that have mentioned this, even the Romanians have made their own cars, Dacia, and they as if were better than the Russian '/_Zhoparozhec_/' [what is again a pun, the name was 'Zaporozhec', but 'zhopa' is an ... #ss, and 'rozha' is a physiognomy]? We count only in a market with Asia and the Near East, and /_exactly_/ because of this we in no time ruled out this possibility.
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==>*_SONJOTKA 39-th_*
-->
-->But maybe it is still possible,
-->when touched very carefully,
-->to warm up the exchange with Russia,
-->without causing laments in Europe?
-->
-->We, anyway, work not with Euro,
-->and if we get rid of this unnecessary Board,
-->we may /_better_/ fix the situation,
-->may begun to feel like at a resort.
-->
-->Because the Board has put us in an environment
-->which still gives us, from time to time, troubles,
-->and hinders our exchange with the world!
-->
-->Comment: This also is not a new theme for me, but there is what can be added, where I will chiefly spit at the Board and propose something better. Now look, the Currency Board at least was introduced in the worst, but really the worst possible moment, when our Lev has fallen to the very bottom, and even has begun to rise and to beat slowly the US dollar, and, oh woe, we were fixed at the bottom. In other words, we were bought at the lowest price, some similar "buying" about 91-92 year would have looked entirely different for us, maybe even to 94-th, but not later; and we could have quietly done without Board, how f.ex. have done the Hungarians, who only about 99-th have legalized the market of the Forint, have not ruined their currency like we have done this under the stupid influence of the UDF. Then, not for everything is hopelessly late, some changes can still be made, because look, take England, it is in EU but has its own currency, while we have not even our own, we are tied to the Euro, but these are different instances, the Board and the Euro zone, so that it may quietly happen that in some nice moment (but good planned for a pair of years ahead) we will reject the Board and introduce new currency.
-->And now the question is what kind of currency to introduce, because our, at least according to what the practice shows, is quite "soft", and I, although am not diplomaed economist, but am not without any idea about these things (like a big heap of our politicians, or at least of our People's Representatives, the MPs), I have one compromise proposition, to make ourselves currency /_basket_/, as this is done (I think that Lithuania has, or at least has had, something similar), of the following kind (which later can be changed but to remain in this spirit): 1/3 US Dollar, 1/3 Russian Rouble, and 1/3 Euro! What I aim with this, and what can be varied? Well, I aim to untie from Europe, but not entirely, to /_weaken_/ the tie, I have not yet said that we must get out of EU, let us stay where we are, at least for the moment; then I aim at attracting of great Russian empire, because they may not have very stable currency, but have mineral resources that guarantee the things much better, and surely have not the currency deficit of US; I would have liked to add also some Near East currency, but in this aspect they are "soft" like us, and to go further on the East to the Chinese and Japanese let us abstain for the moment. So that this is one pretty good compromise, which in no case will return the old labile years, we have now stable currency, and retaining 1/3 of the Euro we will not make EU very angry, more than this, they may be even /_thankful_/ to us for such decision, because will lessen their cares for us, we, in all cases, are weak card, with or without us it must have been the same for them; it is not the same for the NATO people, but including the US dollar we are flattering them, too, and we flatter them in such extent that if we later, say, after half to one century, decide to return to the Russians, they must not be angry at us, and maybe even will begin to think how they also can cooperate with the Russians, because the latter are the principal part of Asia, this is not a joke.
-->Yet, pay attention to this, please, then we will have /_trumps_/, we will be able to conduct our own policy, will be able to make pretences, not to be voiceless, will be able to become some intermediate semi-duty-free market, at least with these countries, which currency we use in our basket, and then there will be nothing so strange if the prices of the petrol /_only_/ for us will become with, say, 30 % cheaper, if it is from Russia, and this will pull with itself also all communal expenses. Generally, without at least little bettering of our relations with the Russians I can't see us as country in the future, neither in economic aspect, nor in demographic one, we will continue the tendency of disappearing.
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==>*_SONJOTKA 40-th_*
-->
-->If the European market is not for us,
-->there are billions people who are like us,
-->and if we are with Asia compared
-->we will hit ourselves in the chest day and night.
-->
-->Yet my thought is that if we skilfully
-->the economy approach,
-->this may turn to be yearning
-->even for the /_European_/ nations!
-->
-->We are just one little percent from EU,
-->so that why not to near shoulders
-->with Asia, yet by us, not there?
-->
-->Comment: Well, when I reread this little verse now I begin to think that surely I am amazingly clever, the more so because by us nobody accepts me (the people are /_afraid_/ that I will trample them in the ground)! Because, you ponder a bit, the European market is not for us (and /or vice versa), but the whole Arabia and Near East are in the same situation, and having in mind that there are many countries from the third world, then in comparison with them we are directly the top, people will begin to take their hats off before us and murmur, yes, they are poor, they have no gold or petrol, but they have /_position_/ and brains to use it! They will say to themselves, better with the Bulgarians and /_through them_/ with Europe and United States, than directly with the latter, something of the kind, because we will become intermediate step, springboard for them to Europe, yet also for their /_capitals_/, not only for their poor masses (which may be a pair of times wealthier than the average Bulgarian, but are nonetheless poor).
-->And pay attention also to the fact that this will confuse with nothing the achieved in our country for the last 20 or so years, the built in excess too many homes in Sofia, the Business Center, such things. No, all this will be possible to be used, because we have /_potential_/, we just have no capitals, but the Arabs, as well also the Russians, have both gold and petrol, mineral resources, and other goods, yet can't go with them at once on the European market, or this is not beneficial enough for them. A Hong-/_Bul_/ on the Balkan peninsula is exactly this, about what millions, and even /_bi_/llions of people on the world dream, because: why these things must happen only on the Far East, why not also on the Balkans? The whole point is in the degree of /_compromise_/, in the intelligent ballancing of the things, leaving the economy to play the leding role and the politics to be subjugated to the former, if this is necessary, and do not look /_either_/ to the West /_or_/ to the East, but look simultaneously to the West /_and_/ to the East! Because, gentlemen, let us cast a look also in the future, it has to be clear that all countries, in one way or another, have to become equal somehow before the capitalism expires, such open world (in order to allow penetration of bacilli from far away, the appearance of pandemic) can't help but equalize everything in the end, but why till this end the poor and underdeveloped countries must be inevitable prey for the rich industrial colossi, why should there be no intermediate levels?
-->And how I say (in my immortal verses, ah!), if this will be done with cleverness, with a bit more brains than it befits some politicians, then from this can win also the very United Europe, because such midget-country like ours does not help them with whatever in economic aspect, but it may help them in trade one, their markets via us, if we open ourselves to the Asian and Near East markets, will not diminish, they can even expand, for some things, everything depends on the skilful operating at the tops, but the trade will also help, if we allow it this. So that the Western countries can also directly increase their investments by us, because they have money (even we have money, judging by the zero bank interests, and what remains for them) but don't know where to invest. And don't forget also this, that we, after all, are less populated, as if also in this regard we are at the /_last_/ place in EU, less than even Greece and Romania, and with about 7-8 times less people than in England, yet this time the last place is in the sense of first! And the province is practically depopulated, but if people and goods begin to come to us from East and from South we will come again to life! So that I, really, don't see what is bad with my propositions, and nobody has them at least /_tried_/; when one is stuck he catches at the straw, and by us it is obvious that since the entering of the Money Board we have made not a single positive movement, we only vegetate, so that I am right to ask, how long, and to propose ideas.
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==>*_SONJOTKA 41-st_*
-->
-->And, dear God, what gave us this NATO?
-->I do not see that we are buried in gold!
-->And also nobody asked the people --
-->a cunning Jew played revolutionary leader.
-->
-->The Europe Western I can understand,
-->they fight incessantly, are looking for guardians,
-->and reach also to the Atlantic,
-->but why pull also us, like with pants braces?
-->
-->For us the best is to be separated,
-->not with uniforms, with clothes in pastel --
-->Balkan Switzerland, some day!
-->
-->Comment: Well, somebody has to ask sometime this question, why this clever Hebrew pushed us into NATO without asking us, what if the people did not want this? With what I don't say that we must now rush at once in the reverse direction, but to be made evaluations and to think and be discussed this is possible, and also to plan something for after 5 - 10 years, yet possibly with the Russians. How it was seen so far (and how it was in Italy at one time, I have read some books of theirs), from NATO bases in Bulgaria can benefit only ... the whores and the black market, but as if even the latter has not much prospered since our inclusion there, and what concerns the whores, I confess, I have not asked them (I have no email address), but don't believe that they insist so much on American cocks.
-->About the Western Europe it is clear, they are really /_afraid_/ of themselves, because look, these nice Germans, sentimental people, homeland of philosophers and musicians, organised nation like no other, and at once, if they don't like something, they begin their jihad, right? And the Frenchmen are also pretty crazy (at least judging by their language, they have /_crippled_/ the Latin unrecognisable); or then the Italians, /_amore mio_/ and so on, but before a pair of centuries they were different regions, there was not Italy as such; or the Spaniards with their massacres in South America in their time (it is not excluded that they will decide to begin something similar, yet this time in Europe, for they still like their /_corrida_/-bullfighting); and so on. While in this way, when somebody else swishes the whip, some supranational structure, and with foreign language (oh my, these people in EU still have /_not_/ official language, this /_can't_/ last forever) is somehow more quietly. Besides, for them, as if for all excluding /_Allemagne_/-/_Deutshland_/, the Atlantic Ocean is part of their border, while for us this has never been so, neither will become sometime.
-->So that we, but pretty quietly, could have been from the non-aligned countries, and not to belong to any military bloc, I see nothing bad in this; I want to say that, look, some Switzerland does not fight wars, why then we must do this? Id est, this would be the best solution for us, and while we remain outsiders nobody will burn with desire to take us, yet I am fundamentally pacifist, so that these things must be voted on national level, and even better if once will be voted on a trial basis, then (if necessary) is voted for change, and at least once in 10 years is voted again, because there are born new people, they may want also to become pacifists, why must we forbid them to do this?
-->Then there is one such moment, which the humanity as a whole does not want to solve, except that the Russians make from time to time propositions, but far from always the other countries respect them. I want to say that a military power as defence is one thing, but as offence is quite a different thing, or I am wrong? Yes, but there is also the well known maxim that the best defence is the attack, and if one casts a look at Europe, there as if is not a country which has not attacked /_first_/, with the possible exception of its direct neighbours. Because it sounds very good to say that, look now, the goal of NATO is to unite the countries, and only if one of them is attacked, then the others must feel themselves obliged to join with the attacked for defence, yet always can exist /_interpretations_/, f.ex. that military action can begin without open declaring of war (how does Japan with Pearl Harbour, or Bin Laden, who officially was /_not_/ a state, he was terrorist, and this, whether behind him was some state, is questionable point). So that I think that nowadays, more than ever, is necessary to increase the number of non-aligned states, which don't intend to begin a war, at least due to their weakness, while the blocs only /_make easier_/ the waging of wars (even if your country is not directly attacked).
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==>*_SONJOTKA 42-nd_*
-->
-->Or then with powers Euro-Asian,
-->not with this world gendarme usurping,
-->that only wars in the world kindles,
-->with foolish pride, and out of vanity!
-->
-->America anticipates its decline,
-->for this reason it wants to get entangled with alliances;
-->if we will be under boots -- oh, dear me! --
-->then to be of Slavs, not of a ... vagabond-child!
-->
-->In other words, to be part of powers,
-->with whom we have eaten at a table and drank,
-->and for whom to be at least with /_something_/ dear.
-->
-->Comment: Well, I personally, of course, do /_not_/ like the Americans, because since at least one century they only incite wars in interest of their personal goals, for increasing of their, if not territories, then spheres of influence, they /_not_/ at all defend the weak and deprived, because if it was so they would not have lingered whole 3 years with the opening of the Second Front against the Nazis, but would have joined the war already in 39-40-th year (yet they were not in a hurry, because have no intentions to conquer parts of Western Europe, while when it came to, f.ex., Vietnam, then, despite of the fact that they had /_nothing_/ at all to do there, they began and fought for several years one absolutely pointless war). So that the Americans, by God, are world gendarmes, and the biggest usurper which the world knows (notwithstanding the fact that they have no reasons to teach the other countries, at least Western Europe, but maybe also Far East, when they are the last country in the world in which the slavery was still officially legalized -- just so, you pay your dollars and buy yourself a Negro boy or girl and so on).
-->And if you doubt that they are only looking for what to fight and with whom to fight, and when they have no near neighbours they do this with the far ones, you simply think what other country has aircraft carriers, which are weapons /_not_/ for defence but for attack, for moving forward of their territory where they only can, be it in the Persian Gulf, be it in the Far East, or be it in the middle of Pacific Ocean. So that they fight in the same way how the youngsters everywhere are rushing to measure their strength, only that they /_know_/ that are the strongest, and exactly because of this are rushing to fight, in order to was something for what they can beat their chest, not that someone has attacked them, no, nobody, at least from the old world, has what to do in North America and has ever attacked it, if we do not count the Great Britain with one of its colonies. But well, when they defend their right to self-determination I understand them, yet not when they decide that can swish their whip around the whole Far East and in all oceans.
-->The Americans, really, behave like unbred youngsters or vagabonds, for them everything is reduced to measuring of the strength (yet with the weaker ones, I repeat), and that they are still youngsters is seen by this, that even we, the Bulgarians, with our over 1300 years history, are nearly thrice older than they, while the Arabs speak about 3 thousand years and more, and the Hebrews as if about 6 thousands. So that I cannot see what self-respecting nation can /_like_/ such bullies, the people may be /_afraid_/ of them, this surely, everybody will be afraid of unbalanced and irritable teenager, but nobody really respects them, even the West-Europeans (unless they decide to move there, and then they at once become the same bullies). So that I am overdoing nothing, to be under the boots of near to us countries, is not a new moment for us, we have been under Turkish, also under Greek (in spiritual plan), and under German, under Russian we, practically, have never been, but even if we have been or will be this can be endured (they, even if will curse you, we will understand them, how is said), but under American boots I personally will never agree to be (except under one condition, hm, if they agree to accept ... the Slavonic alphabet -- because the Bulgarian letters are much more suitable for their crazy language than the Latin ones).
-->And also, if one looks at such an angle, they are not much Europeans as ... Asians, by them more and more increase the immigrants not only from China and Japan, but also from the whole Far East, and I hope that by their birth rate (at least of the Chinese) the Americans will soon be conquered from within, and together with this their economic domination is questionable, on the part of the same near for them but far for us East.
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==>*_SONJOTKA 43-rd_*
-->
-->And while we are Slavs let us do something
-->to support the Slavdom competently,
-->be it with influx of Russians to us,
-->so that at least with this we might be proud.
-->
-->Because, why do we need Chinese by us?
-->With what their semen appeals to us?
-->Except that they breed like rabbits,
-->I see no use of them, only troubles.
-->
-->Even the Arabs are our people,
-->Poles, Czechs, Turks in the team
-->to include is acceptable, if our "court" suffices.
-->
-->Comment: Well done, ah? One has to raise also this slogan, so that why not me (whom the people for the moment do not read, but in near future might begin so eagerly to read, that will break their legs to run and find him at some site). Because this Slavonic alphabet is created, it might be said, by Bulgarians, well, Thessalonian brothers, but in those times from Thessaloniki to Puldin [the town Plovdiv] was as much as now from the /_polis_/ of Sofia to Kaspichan railway station. And, gentlemen, let me remind you anew the great idea of these enthusiasts (who otherwise have been of noble birth, they could have occupied themselves with trade and enjoy the respect of all, but they have decided to unite the Slavdom through a common alphabet, and to defend the right to self-determination of all Slavs). Their idea (according to Jotata) is not so much in the alphabet as in the /_equality_/ of all Slavs with the other Western nations, and if the people, the nations, are recognized by this how they praise their god, then well, let this be done in their own language, not in such one that is ... farther than their cock [i.e. that they do not give a damn about it]. Together with this, however, be it only for the simple reason that this alphabet is /_newer_/, but it is not only this, it has absorbed in itself the /_phonetics_/ of ancient Eastern nations, Turks, Persians, and others (allow me to understand something in this field), because -- just to give an example -- the sound 'y' [like in "girl", to remind you my notation] (and respectively the Russian /_eri_/, what is 'y' /_modified_/ to 'i' but in one sound) is absent from all Western languages like letter, but is used at least by the Germans and Englishmen, to say nothing about the whole East, both Near and Far. Yeah, but 'y' only the Bulgarians write as letter, the other Slavs do not dare, they are somehow afraid, that the world will not understand them, while we rightly consider it almost as pillar of our language!
-->And then, really, why we need the Chinese, with what are they useful for us, do we so strongly need /_Gastarbeiters_/ [guest workers] that have come to them (or have taken pity on them, in order to compensate for their sufferings during the time of Mao?)? They never, but really never, will begin to speak correctly Bulgarian, just like they are not speaking either good German, or English (or American), or French or Dutch or whatever European language. I don't say that they are bad nation, they are in their way intelligent, very ancient, peaceful, and so on, yet everything by them is upside down, even the music and speech, everything is very different (and they like it and do not want to change it, while some Japanese, f.ex., speak /_perfect_/ English, the Hindus also, this is a question of phonetics, but also of wish, where the Chinese do not want and that's it). And about the multiplication they are completely wrong, they breed like ... aphids, whose single weapon was exactly their fertility, this is /_dishonest_/ to the other nations, they must be punished, not aided!
-->About this that also the Arabs are our people I have already spoken, this is really so, they speak perfect Bulgarian (only a bit harder), even the Russians (because of their /_eri_/, but the 'i' by them is also not pure, it is modified 'i' to 'e') can't speak so good Bulgarian like the Turks and Arabs. Then Russians, Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, and Serbs (as long as they do not call us 'b/_u_/gari', with indecent hints about sodomy, that we do /_it_/ like the bugs) are welcome; when we are as if the least populated country in the EU why not to take one or another little million inhabitants more; even if with their help we become 10 mln there is nothing bad in this, we have deserted rural areas, with pretty good nature, more so with this global warming, we become a country-marvel (i.e., it could happen so if we shoot the penalty kick to the politics and occupy ourselves with the economy, and if we succeed to reconcile the rich with the miserable, to unite our nation). Place in our "court" will be found for everyone from these nations; they will help us to decrease our barbarity, and we will teach them Bulgarian language and customs.
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==>*_SONJOTKA 44-th_*
-->
-->And in a country Slavonically multifaceted
-->it is time to speak about the language!
-->Because our us really /_perfect_/,
-->if you don't know this, hear it from me.
-->
-->In phonetic aspect we are better
-->than the Italians, and they are as if the top;
-->then cases by all Slavs must be learned,
-->but we have not (just one fag end).
-->
-->And our genders are without puzzles,
-->and the adjectives by us are short,
-->nor think we how to write like ducks!
-->
-->Comment: Well, the question about Bulgarian language I have begun in the previous point, but mentioned chiefly the sound 'y', and there are a heap of other moments, so that I will fill my place here (if somebody has begun to worry about this). Yet I can't help but congratulate /_myself_/ for the combination "Slavonically multifaceted", even dedicate it, spontaneously, to the /_colleague_/ Vazov. Because this, really, would have been something nice, if we can achieve it, to populate one multifacetous Slavonic yet also Oriental country, where uniting will be our native speech, /_enchanting and sweet_/ [this is a proverbial phrase from our literature, or rather poetry]. Ah, I am going to start weeping with affection, but must continue further, not a few work still waits for me, the finale of my blasphemously-upheaving poetically-prosaic material with the inimitable title "Through the millet" [given in English as "Helter-Skelter"] awaits me, a work, which only unjustifiably disregarded intellectual like me can conceive and fulfill.
-->So let me continue. I mentioned before only the letter 'y', but our whole phonetics deserves respect, because it is, in my humble opinion, as if the best one from all languages in the /_world_/! Because according to me in the languages exist only /_6 basic vowels_/, and we have them all and in the purest form, so pure, that even the Italians are worse than us, to say nothing about the lacking of sound 'y' by them, and all other, at least European, languages have worse phonetics. These vowels are: '/_a, e, i, o, u, y_/', and this is everything, but with them can be made any kind of /_modified_/ vowels, like also /_combined_/ ones (diph- and triph- thongs), only that I can't allow myself to go into details here. Yet pay attention, please, that a nation, which has good basic vowels, can easier learn /_whatever_/ other language, be this English, or French, or some other (while, f.ex., the Russians, because they have not pure 'y' but the modifier /_eri_/ ['yi' read as 1 vowel], can never learn to speak good Bulgarian or English, that's it). And together with the vowels we have also all possible /_warm_/ consonants as letters (i.e. 'zh, ch, sh'; we have not only some /_choking_/ consonants like 'bh, gh, rh' etc.).
-->Then come the grammar cases, and I have once checked for all left Slavonic languages in the Internet, and it turned out that /_only_/ we have not a single one (that vocative case, that can be met sometimes, is for one thing very easy, and for another one people don't use it anymore). And again pay attention that we have not just diminished the number of cases (like the Germans, f.ex., who have 4, or how it was in the today's Arabic, where they as if were 3), we have abandoned them /_at all_/; this thing have done also in all Roman languages, I confess, yet their tenses are terribly difficult. F.ex. in the Italian (as paragon for melodiousness and easiness) they have 14 tenses, from which only the past are 5, not to mention the passive voice and the ways for expressing of continuous tenses, while our past tenses are essentially 2, and as tables with verb forms (what is the important thing) we have only present and past, because these 'shte, shtjah, bjah, bil', and others, are not forms of verbs but /_words_/, particles). Ah, yes, and we have /_not at all_/ strong verbs, /_neither_/ transitional or not, for us these are unnecessary complications; well, we have 2 kinds of past /_verbs_/, instead of tenses, but in this way we have continuous tenses at least in the past (what as if is true for all Slavonic languages).
-->Then all our adjectives are short, while the Russian with their 'yij, oj, uju', and so on, sounds nearly as Chinese. Plus that our genders are easily guessed by the endings, with little exceptions (through the fault of Russian soft sign [marked here with 'j' after a consonant], like: 'mosht'-power, 'pustosh'-wasteland, and other similar words, which should have been masculine [in Russian the first is 'moshchj'], but are feminine). Well, it is true that we put the definite article at the /_end_/ of the word [and even /_joined_/ with the word], but so it comes to be simpler [say, the table in Bulgarian will be 'masa/_ta_/', where only a table is 'masa'], and this is learned fast.
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==>*_SONJOTKA 45-th_*
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-->But the language is activity of the /_population_/,
-->it is not thing forced from outside, nor modern;
-->it is with vocabulary both, ancient,
-->as well contemporary, simple and melodious.
-->
-->Only our language can unite
-->the Slavs with the ancient nations,
-->and with its alphabet to tame
-->the quarrels, to please everyone.
-->
-->Plus this, we being a handful of people,
-->will block out the horizon of nobody,
-->will lead only with spirit, stop the discord!
-->
-->Comment: This is very important assertion for me, that the language is work not of some grammarians, no, this is entirely work of the whole nation, /_we_/ are those who have simplified our language, more than the Italians have simplified their ancient Latin, and, my God, the simplest language of all Slavs -- or you prove me that I am wrong --, if it was only this we take the first place between the Slavs; and here the point is not only in this, that we are Southern Slavs, because the Serbs are also such, but they have 6 (if not even 7) cases. Or then: you make someone from the West to say: 'srpski', or 'Bendrzhih', or 'myi', 'vyi', and so on. So that our speech, really, is enchanting and sweet, and with our letters can be written [transliterated] relatively good every western language (not writing, say, "oi" and reading this as 'ua').
-->Plus this our vocabulary is quite good, in the sense that it is both contemporary and ancient, there are words from the West, beginning with the Latin, but also from the East and South, beginning with the Persian; I want to say that in comparison with the Northern Slavs (Russians, Czechs, Poles) we have preserved more ancient Arab and similar roots, without this to diminish the contemporary Latin et cetera roots, i.e. we as if are with richer vocabulary, although this is quite bold statement and each language is as rich as this is necessary. This, what shocks a number of nations, are our glued to the end of nouns and adjectives definite articles (in such cases to stick the /_member_/ at the back is not pretty decent, right?), yet it turns out that even this is ancient method, which is preserved in the Italian (f.ex., there /_smettetela_/ means "stop /_te_/-you-in-plural with /_la_/-this"), in the sense that many particles can be glued at the end (how it is with the reflexive ones in the Russian). Generally, I have the feeling that the dear God personally has soared over our heads when we have made our language and has given here and there advices, because this, what can be bettered, is not much, say: changing of the genders or endings of some nouns in order to eliminate the exceptions, and probably eliminating of the /_not-finished_/ [what is equivalent with your continuous] (or /_finished_/ [not-continuous]) tenses, and their substituting with some particles (how it is in the English: I am work/_ing_/), where by us this is done with suffixes ('podchinja' [to subjugate] - 'podchin/_javam_/' [am subjugating]), or prefixes ('rabotja' [to make] - '/_iz_/rabot/_vam_/' [am making] -- and what is longer somehow continues for longer time); anyway, about this point let the grammarians ponder, if this turns to be necessary.
-->The important thesis of Jotata here is, that, naturally, every language can pretend that it is the best, but for this exist some objective criteria, comparisons with various other languages, and in addition to this we are teeny nation, no one normal person will take our language as attempt to /_conquer_/ foreign territories, and we also don't want this; through our language, if it becomes some world, or at least Slavonic and Near-Eastern standard, together with our alphabet but also with its way of reading (not the Russian one), we will simply dominate the /_minds_/ of other nations, because the language is, in the end, a way of thinking! Did you get it, gentlemen, we will conquer via the speech, where the conquering must be understood in the sense of offering of one good, completely perfect /_platform_/ for writing and learning of their own, and of every other, language, yet our language is not intellectual property, in the legal sense of the word, it is simply the best /_example_/ for working (not invented) language!
-->So that we, really, being a handful of people, will block out nobody's horizon, but will lead with our spirituality (embodied in our language), without territorial pretences, and in this way we can stop all possible discords between the countries! This is such nice idea that it looks directly utopian, but everything depends on the common sense, chiefly of our politicians, there is nothing principally impossible in it.
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==>*_SONJOTKA 46-th_*
-->
-->Yet our strength is only in the /_gene_/,
-->we are not born to rule over the terrain,
-->and it's better to be commanded by /_others_/,
-->because we are not people for cooperatives!
-->
-->We will never unite us
-->to become leading in some field,
-->but every nation we will /_better_/,
-->if will develop, how wants, everyone.
-->
-->Yet until we live like ... stray dogs,
-->whatever we touch, will always burn ourselves,
-->and will in nothing be able to reach success!
-->
-->Comment: As you see, your Jota with easiness jumps from the good to the bad and vice versa, because these are /_not_/ absolute categories but relative, and it depends under what angle we will look at them. Our strength, really, is in the gene, that's what I think, not in the organization, but this is so maybe /_exactly_/ because there arises need of organization among otherwise ... impersonal (faceless, in order not to say dull) people, where the individual persons, taken by themselves, have not much makings with which to stand out! I do not want to debase whatever nation, but our strength is in our weakness, and our weakness is our strength, as long as we can use it! Well, for the time being we, in the most cases, can /_not_/ use our weakness as strength, but we are at least obliged to /_make efforts_/, and this is why I am sweating over these lines (because while I was writing the verses I got my fun, /_naturellement_/, to invent such simple sonnet-like form and to incorporate it in more than 50 verses, but the prosaic part [to say nothing about this now translation] bores me, I am repeating my thoughts from 10 and 20 years back)! So that, gentlemen, who has come till here let him read me to the end.
-->So everything is reduced to this, that our gene is /_pretty unique_/, our people are quite original (because look, we have articles glued to the words and have letter 'y' which the other nations are ashamed to write, and live better as a nation under some form of subjection but not as free people, and similar things), and we can't unite ourselves or find this very difficult to do, no matter about what (be it even to attack another nation, we wait until the other nations attack /_us_/), but this our uniqueness can be beneficial for all (for us and for the other nations), and it is precisely so, and for the moment from our disorganization and emigration around the world benefits chiefly the world, not our nation! But if someone starts to care about us and feed us good, we serve him, and even better than the quite obedient nations, which in many cases don't show that have heads on their shoulders, while we are doing mainly this, and how we are 1 percent from United Europe, we are even /_1 promille_/ from the whole world (7 mln to 7 bln), but we can better the whole world, if somebody gives us this possibility and decides to help us a little.
-->I want to say that for 1 % of its people any community can care, as long as we convince them that we are not bad people, but are simply very poor, what also corresponds with the reality. And exactly with such ideas I began in my first Letter to the ignoring me Public, which Letter I for this reason translated later in 3 world languages, so that if someone wants, to be able to read me, I have /_given_/ something to the world. We can break all European (and world) records, yet not in producing of something, not in consumptive sense, but in moral one, or spiritual, if only we succeed first to jump out of this impenetrable misery (on the background of decaying of ripeness capitalism in the world); but if we are not able to perceive this, both at the top, and in the bottom of our population, we will continue unconsciously to help the others yet not our country. In global scale this will not be bad, the world will gain, our gene will not disappear (more or less like the Hebrew one, only that they have overdone the things in their efforts to prove that they are better than the others, and for this reason they are hated, or at list are not much loved, while we are with so smashed by the poverty physiognomies, that don't allow any thought of chosenness to penetrate our thick heads).
-->You ponder, gentlemen, compare, yet I think that even visually we are /_nicer_/, but yes, from various Germans, or Russians, or Englishmen, and other well organised nations, by us everybody is with something more different than the others around, and our strength is exactly in this /_amalgamation_/ of Slavonic and Near-Eastern genes, what is good to be preserved by us, let us not be nation without its country. ah?
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==>*_SONJOTKA 47-th_*
-->
-->Only aided with measures /_social_/
-->will our actions be laudable,
-->with this only we will amaze Europe,
-->and will from the lethargy awake.
-->
-->To /_everybody_/ must /_something_/ be given,
-->according with the standard in the moment,
-->solely because in this country
-->he was born, this must be the argument!
-->
-->This looks like equalizing,
-->yet in extra-natural environment
-->only this is the right setting!
-->
-->Comment: Well, here I again turn to the ideas of my NAPUK party, but it was evident in some form already in my Letter, and if the persons there (I mean the freeloaders or /_drones_/ of the state, our chosen representatives at the top) have not begun so actively to silence me (with their not paying attention at me) it could have so remain only in embryonal form in my clever little head, yet so, /_thanks_/ to their unpardonable and barbaric attitude towards an intelligent man, they already have seen the light of day! I intend to return to this at the end, but here want to stress on this, what I mentioned several times, that are necessary social measures in order to retain our people by us, to /_incubate_/ them here, not to leave them to fly out uncontrollably in the world. Only with social measures we can stand out with something before the other nations, and it is also logical exactly in the poorest country of European Union to be generated such ideas, as best of all felt through, and also to be good expressed (there is no use of excessive modesty) by an intellectual with enough lived-out years and broad outlook on life (yet not in the sense of making of career but on the contrary, in philosophical reflections). And only with social measures we will awake from the deep lethargy after the euphoria of first pair of democratic years, until become aware that it is the next lie and deceit for the people, but this time in the interest of the wealthy and higher developed countries.
-->Now, I again have no intention to retell all of my writings, but the quintessence of the things is in this, that everyone, what means really everyone, born in Bulgaria citizen (and, if you ask me, even a villager, ha-ha), must each month receive some established minimum (of the order of what our authorities have evaluated that I deserve, i.e. 7 times less than the average), which money later, after the end of the month, to be deducted from his income, when the person has some income, and else he must be taken for freeloader of the state (like also all MPs, f.ex.). Plus strengthened healthcare and educational measures for those, who have not means to make use of normally established for the country measures, possibly also housing, communal expenses, transport, Internet, and everything necessary, which expenses will be able to be accounted personally for everybody, so that we will have all reasons to require help from the West, because these money will be given directly to the persons in need, not to some instances, where they can "sink" somewhere. If the person in question agrees to live only on this means, then he must be left to do this, regardless of the reasons why he thinks so, at least because this is our human duty, and because the person surely has some reasons to want to live so poor, yet /_not_/ poorer than this!
-->These measures must be taken not because so (or nearly so) have asserted the communists, but because nowadays one lives in increasingly alienated and /_un_/natural environment, he can not feed himself from the earth (in the big polices), hence somebody has to take care for him. In any case it is not normal one free and even deserved with something individual (say, like Jotata) to live under conditions definitely several times worse than those of the ... prisoners! Because hardly one daily ration of a prisoner by us costs less than 3 bus tickets (let us count in this way), and except this remain /_all_/ communal expenses, plus the maintenance of the prison staff, while Jotata does well with less than 1 ticket and is glad and has a desire to create.
-->And together with this one such approach is very perspective in view of some future society, whatever it may be, because for the moment there are no prospects for the current world tendencies to be changed, so that this proposition is result of a correct forecasting of the future.
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==>*_SONJOTKA 48-th_*
-->
-->This does not hinder the capitalism,
-->but makes it a deep ... clyster;
-->there must not for food, shelter, medicine,
-->education, sex, deprivations to reign.
-->
-->There will be always possibilities for luxury,
-->if somebody wants to stand out with this,
-->but at a basic level must not here
-->discrimination find its way.
-->
-->Only then will be possible to work
-->for the others, will exist Don Quixotes,
-->who will not be greedy for property.
-->
-->Comment: Now, like I have surely hinted somewhere, it goes here about building of /_moderate socialism_/, of such in the framework of capitalist society, because, turn it or bend it [how we like to say], but the socialism is /_not_/ a new kind of social order, it is simply state-monopoly capitalism, what means /_narrowing_/ [reduction] of the capitalism to only one part of it, this is not progress but regress, while the proposition of Jotata is really progress! Thanks for the applauses (if there were such, because I somehow don't hear them). This changes the capitalism, naturally, makes it a pretty fundamental clyster, yet this change is natural, evolutional, here are not only no revolutions, here is no necessity even of meetings (and cries: Jo-ta-ta, Jo-ta-ta), but, on the other hand, this is simply one more ripe, more /_intelligent_/ capitalism, this is a way for the capitalist, that with more capitals, to have all chances to get, as a whole, averagely looked, more effective work, because the money, on the background of worldwide affluence begins less and less to work [we like to use the jargon "spin" for to have some effect] (Jotata, f.ex., for the last quarter of a /_century_/ has bought himself /_not a single clothe_/ -- well, let us say that he has spent together about 10 Euro, because it has happened to buy things for half to one Euro --, even shoes, and manages somehow, lives, does not go on the street naked, yet nobody exploits him, but could have, positively).
-->And now more specifically. Of course that must all (but all) social achievements of socialism, which reigned in the former soc-countries, like education, healthcare, food, shelter, transport, and so on and so forth, to be /_restored_/, and even not on the same but on a /_higher_/ level, because when it was possible these sums to be allocated from the budget of the state (in some way, this is not interesting now) when the food was natural, and the clothes (but today are not more made shoes of pigskin, everything is artificial, and because of this we have begun to ... eat these skins, in the form of emulsion of pigskins in the sausages), and everything, and without robotized industry (when, f.ex., a piezo-electric lighter costed about 25 ... eggs, and before 50 or so years even more than 100 eggs, and now it is 1-2 such), from this follows that this must be possible also today, categorically and uncompromisingly! And it /_is_/ possible, but we simply do /_not want_/ this, because think that when is not given enough to the people then they will strain to work and this will increase the exploitation, what is so, generally, yet in some limits, and I also ask: how long they will exploit us immoderately, is it not time for us to begin to live quietly, like it was under the totalitarianism?
-->But who wants to boast with luxury products -- because he has not with what /_personal_/ to boast, except with something bought (how it is with at least 80 % of the people) -- then he will again want to work, the exploitation will /_not_/ diminish if is taken care for the miserable, this will not affect the normal business relations in the country but may even better them (because, f.ex., if one still gets /_something_/, then he will be ready to do some work just so, for pleasure, will not raise his price). But luxury is one thing and /_discrimination_/ -- no more no less -- of those who can't pay (were it medical treatment, were it education, and so on), is quite different thing, and such discrimination did not exist under the totalitarianism (then only those who wanted to make career, not being in the party lines, "discriminated" themselves, but the career-making is not something obligatory for everybody, this is the fourth level of desires, about which we will say something in the next chapter). While the human, as also the animal, wants to be useful with something to the /_others_/, as long as he has satisfied his basic needs, so that let us satisfy them for all on some basic level.
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==>*_SONJOTKA 49-th_*
-->
-->From social cares settled
-->will be glad people humiliated,
-->who have experienced the hardships of life,
-->they will live /_somehow_/, well, not like barons.
-->
-->This will /_integrate_/ the society,
-->what is its basic goal,
-->the money source /_not_/ only of evil
-->will be, yet this is not the limit.
-->
-->The money given to people in need,
-->new appetite in the rich awaken,
-->and the poor to them their money "expel"!
-->
-->Comment: Now, I think that I begin the verse quite correctly, that those, who run away from here, feel themselves, to some extent, humiliated by the life in our country, and they flee from here for this reason, such things have happened and happen in the world (in the end, this was the way how America was populated, with the most humiliated and deprived from the entire old world), but, damn it, why exactly we must think about the world, we are only one promille of the population of the world, we are /_obliged_/ to preserve ourselves (after God has created us), and why this must not be in our country, when we have such? And if the people by us live somehow, if not normally then at least /_awry-right_/ (as I said [as new substitute for somehow]), they will both, be glad and want to make something for the others (who are doing something for them, when pay them something; I repeat, even the animal, the dog, as most intelligent one, wants to bring back to you the ball or the stick, after you throw it for him, in order to be useful with something for you, who feeds him, so that why we must think that the humans are /_so much worse_/ than the animals, they are worse, this is so, but there are basic things in which we are /_like_/ the animals).
-->And this, quite naturally, will integrate the society, what [the integration] is basic obligation of every society (even such of animals). And the money can be how source of good deeds (if it goes there, where is necessary), so also of evils (if it is distributed, like by us, in the stage of initial accumulation, in the most unjustified manner, i.e. not by that who needs it, but by that, who already /_has_/ it -- because it is clear that [according to one Bulgarian saying] money goes to money, these are statistical relations, the other cases are only exceptions). And, how I say on several places, for this reason, that the money tends to agglomerate, to condense there, where exist condensation cores, to whomever it is given, it will go in the end to the richer people, not to the poorer (who have to cover their basic necessities, for them this will not be /_surplus_/), due to what I think that my party NAPUK is advantageous both, for the left- and for the right- wing, it is just more /_reasonable_/ than the average level at the moment (and probably for 1-2 centuries ahead), but this is future tendency (according to the great social forecaster Jotata - Atatoj). Only with increased exploitation our palette will continue to be /_poor_/, in the same way how was poor the totalitarian palette with only the moral stimuli, without enough material support. So that everything is again a question of compromise, and I appeal to you, gentlemen, think with your head (and the upper one [because for the Bulgarians is natural the "cock" also to have its head])!
-->And now let me clear also the question with the levels of wishes, because, according to Western sociologists, the human is wanting animal with the following 5 levels and in this order from the bottom to the top: food, shelter, continuation of the gender or sex, self-expression or career, and development and improvement! The first 3 levels must always be satisfied up to some extent, and they were satisfied even in the primitive society, they were considered obligatory under the socialism (although were not called so), and will be such also in the paradise (if such exists), but the manifestation of the individuality or the career making is something what far from everyone can achieve, it would have been good if this was possible, yet in poor societies this is inaccessible to many; the fifth level of development and improvement is very rarely achieved, primarily because of /_functional_/ defects of the human, who usually tries to substitute the appearing of new /_qualitative_/ tastes and abilities with bigger /_quantities_/ from the old ones, yet here nothing can be done. The goal of each developed society is to allow reaching of the 4-th level of personal manifestation for as wider as possible layers of population; we have reached, in bare outlines, this level under the totalitarianism, but when the democracy came and we, jump, and landed with one level lower for nearly all people due to the incredible poverty and misery.
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==>*_SONJOTKA 50-th_*
-->
-->So that the point is /_not_/ to avoid
-->the exploitation, but it to be not too big,
-->and to reign quietness in the country
-->via decent helps for the 'raja'-common-masses.
-->
-->Then the pauper will alone rush
-->to search for work, environment, expression,
-->and abundance will begin to flow
-->to the one who gives, and the one who takes.
-->
-->Yet such understanding, elevated,
-->requires that neither one is fool --
-->neither the one with the whip, nor that who sweats!
-->
-->Comment: But it is so, exploitation, according to Jotata, must exist (at least because it has always existed, and if it disappears at once then we surely are wrong in something), yet it must be such, that is beneficial for both sides, for those who require and /_squeeze_/ all juices from the dependent of them subjects, as well for those who do all unpleasant work. By a moderate exploitation will unavoidably reign quietness, what will strengthen the exploitation (yet this can't lead to explosion because one, after all, has feeling about how much he can give out of himself). But in order to have good exploitation and quietness must exist also good cares for the masses, and not cares when one goes there and begins to beg "Oh, ladies and sirs, give 50 cents for the little Gypsy", yet for everybody, against, so to say, only of birth certificate. And this must be done not because we are very humane, but because we have enough /_brains_/ to grasp that this is the best for the society! It is true that one such understanding of the things requires great intellect -- like that of Ivancho Jotata, known also as Ochnavi Atatoj, Nostradamus Buladamus, Jotabash Giaurgi, and so on -- but look, he has come to the truth and from you, my dear (due to your /_small_/ number) readers, is needed only to follow him, stepping into the made by him traces on the thorny path of knowledge and wisdom. Amen.
-->And now let me give you one more advice what to do after you have read the material till this point. Well, firstly you empty your bladder (lest from intense reading you get wet), then inform all your acquaintances what great mind is this Jotata (about whom all Bulgarian Public and Authorities want to hear nothing, because he calls all those people, without exceptions, to make themselves a ... harakiri for not doing correctly their job), thereafter you drink a cup of coffee (maybe with a spoonful of cognac, I generously allow this), after doing what you push ... your cock into your sexual partner (or, respectively, beg for this your partner, if he is the one with the cock -- in what is nothing indecent, this is Italian word /_uccello_/, 'uchchello', only that there it means every possible bird, we and you have quite narrowed the scope of application), then you sleep a pair of days /_over_/ the read (how the German say), and then you chose one free hour (not more) when you decide to read one more time /_only_/ the sonjotkas, because they follow well one after another, they were written in this way [although in this retelling of the verses maybe the 3/4 of the charm is lost, alas]; only in this way you will honour the trance with which the author has written them for just about 10 days, inspired by the "Great Day" [how it is called in Bulgarian], the Easter.
-->And, sirs, joke aside, but something has to be done. I maintain humorous tone and street slang in some places, because in this way it is more interesting, I alone do not want to write more serious things; when at the top of the state nobody counts me for a plum [Bulgarian idiom] then let me at least have my fun. But the matters are very serious, because of this I have killed an year or two in order to evolve the most important materials, and to come to my inimitable NAPUK party, and all this in at least 4 languages; in addition to this I am approaching the things scientifically, I analyze the situation, identify the current trends, calculate, prognosticate, propose, and explain everything simple and clear, it remains only for some politician, well, more, of course, but the beginning has to be set by one enthusiast, to establish it. But faster, for 5-10 years something has to be done, otherwise, without prophesying troubles and misfortunes, but in the middle of the century we will be 5 mln people, of which ethnic Bulgarians will be about 1/3, leading party will be MRF [the Turkish one], after it -- let me think --, ahm, say Agrarian-Worker Alternative for Fast Growth (read [in Bulgarian] as ... ARABI [i.e. Arabs]), then the BSP [the socialists], and then 5-6 fascist parties. Ah yes, and at our coat of arms will be not 3 but /_5_/ lions, clutching their tails and interwoven like Olympic circles, this will be called /_fivelionette_/ [allusion on the five-rayed star]. Believe me, gentlemen!
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==>*_SONJOTKA 51-st_*
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-->[Here have to be given some explanation because they are not seen by this retelling. This as verse is in the same form, but it is plus this also acrostic, which reads 'blag-odar-sko', what is variation of "thanks", something like "thanksyouall" but with 11 letters. Naturally, I will not separate the first letters here, because they mean nothing in English.]
-->
-->Unquestionably now I am feeling obliged
-->Lovingly to bow my head before the Bulg- [the splitting exists]
-->Arians at the top, who with their disrespect
-->Made a hero, unintentionally, of me.
-->
-->Oh, if they were not, in my old age
-->I would have scratched ... my balls only,
-->But so I entertain the people's masses,
-->Emit books in swarms with desire!
-->
-->After the boring mathematical knowledge
-->To nationwide I am moving recognition,
-->Having clothed in words thoughts and passions.
-->
-->Comment: Well, it is so, gentlemen, I must express my thanks to my /_creators_/, even if they have not created me intentionally, but it usually happens so with the progeny, the parents have their pleasure, and later, hop, the baby pops up. Now, here can't be said that they have had exactly their pleasure, but not paying attention to a wise meaning, except that it is expression of barbarism, is also reaction of relief, so that they have done this, what they wanted, not this, what they should have done, after they are put in front of the whole nation. So that they have engendered me, and are on the way to make me hero and idol of the future generation, because I, surely, am fighting bravely with the injustice and evasions, independently on the level on which this is performed (and even the higher is the level, on which is done something improperly, the more actively I fight with it).
-->Now, I can't understand with how little brains the people, f.ex. in NSSI [our Social Security Institute] decide that, after they come before me with various weak-minded evasions and twists, then I will become afraid of them and will shut up my mouth, because I have done exactly the contrary, I opened it wider and began to alarm even higher instances, and when those in my country were exhausted with my total information blackout (much worse than in totalitarian times), then I made use of 3-4 more languages and went with them before the world. But I had simply no other way out, because if they have thought that I will spend my money (which I have not), to hire lawyers and to sue the /_state_/, for this, that they ignore main principle of Roman law, that if something is not explicitly forbidden then it is allowed, and if necessary to come even to some international court (in the Hague, or wherever it is), then they obviously have mistaken me with someone else. Because it was so, everything began with this, that I wanted to retire with 1 year length of service /_less_/, hoping that in this way I will, probably, receive pension with 10 or so percents /_higher_/, due to the fact that Bulgaria has always been country of paradoxes. Yet the paradox still /_remains_/, and it is heard even wider, so that if now some of those instances decide at last to agree with my pretensions, this is now of no importance, I have published myself around the world, I attract attention of the public, have given detailed idea about my party (only without me personally), and am writing funny or not too much things for my pleasure.
-->Yet, on the other hand, this is not a new moment in world history, such things happen all over the world, not only in barbarian country like ours, because no saint or martyr has become such of his own will, no, such have made him his contemporaries, with their stupid in the moment reaction at his actions; it is possible that the deep meaning of this is in the checking to which extent this person upholds his principles, but so or otherwise this is a fact, so that I have gone on a direct way to my inclusion someday in the list of prominent Bulgarians, the so called people's awakeners [we have such national holiday], because this is what I am doing, I 'budja'-/_awaken_/ the people from their democratic lethargy, and make them to realize, that the democracy is no smaller delusion than the totalitarianism but even bigger one, it is right only /_in principle_/ (if the people have enough brains in their heads, but one whole nation has this never, it is on the intellectual level of a ... /_suckling_/). At the same time, however, I don't discourage people, I simply make them to /_think_/, proposing also decisions in the right direction.
-->But, gentlemen, thanks to this, frankly speaking, pretty stupid reaction at the highest possible level, I have become livelier, feel myself as fit as a fiddle, have purpose in life in my old age, and am even /_myself_/ surprised by my achievements, really. So that, believe me, and this will be my last word,
-->'blagodarsko'-thanks.
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==>*_POST SCRIPTUM_*
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-->Sirs, I had no intention to add whatever more, but as far as in this pandemic year, and also because the mandate of this Government expires soon, and we like pretty much to raise noise in the last moment, not in the beginning or even in the middle, then some things have happened and there is what to add emergently (until I have begun to edit my books for the various sites, about a dozen, and each of them with specific requirements, what will take me at least a month, and because of this I do it in a series, but there have accumulated 10 or so books -- I am working pretty much lately, because have constant "income", however funny this word may sound for a Bulgarian pension).
-->Well, the simplest is this, that the protests continue because the population is tired of sitting at home, there is some small inflation, about 5% monthly (what is not so little, but this is for food products, while the communal expenses, which for the poorer exceed the half of their expenses, have not risen even with a cent), and some new /_fascists_/, surely (because those parties that are represented in the Parliament do not want premature elections, why should they shorten their time around the state's table?) rush ahead, and /_only_/ 3 fascist parties in our Parliament are, in all appearances, not enough! Here the bad thing (or the good one, it depends on this, how one looks at the things) of the fascists is that they can /_not_/ unite themselves, for them the important thing is to have an idol, and he can be only one, so that the number of these parties can rise even to about 10 (yet they alone do not believe that can seriously intervene in the politics, they want just to make some noise, because the fascism, like I have explained, is simply a /_firecracker_/).
-->The more interesting for me personally is this, that my pension was, respectively: in May 2020 176 Lv., in June 186, in July 212, what at last reached the /_correct_/ (according to me) situation (the minimal pensions not to come lower than 1/3 MMS, which is already as if 630 Lv), and in Aug whole 262 Lv, as temporary and farewell gift of the "general", what for me is directly a /_luxury_/ (I in /_no_/ way can allow myself to spend so much money, with nearly one quarter /_above_/ the correct amount, i.e. 50 to 212, I will surely save it). But, gentlemen, let us remove the alms (because of the fear of losing the "bone"), for 3 months an increase of 36 Lv on the basis of 176 makes exactly 20 % increase, and even if we take this for a whole year, it is again quite much over the usual 10 %. But if we take 262 to 176 then this gives whole 50 %, what is a kind of insanity, or rather panic!
-->But we can reflect also otherwise: I began in Apr 2016 with 134 Lv pension, and if till Jul 2020 it is only 212, then this makes again 50 % for 4 years, what is quite decent increase under 10 % yearly increase of the income (which is the situation by us, in outlines). From here I can make only two main conclusions (but this is me, because the others don't make them), and will come to them after a while, but let me first remark that if I receive now 260 Lv (by MMS of 630, what must be real value, because in Jan it was 610), then this gives 41 %, but my pension then was 32 % of the minimal [salary], and for this reason I raised the question at all. If we speak in money then MMS was 420 Lv. (and 0.32 * 420 = 134.), while 0.41 * 420 = 172 Lv, i.e. by this quotient [or percentage] I should have started with 172 Lv (instead of 134), what slightly /_exceeds_/ my pretensions in that time (they as if reached to about 165 Lv), i.e. there would have been /_no_/ questions for raising at all (and I, probably, would have sung hymns to our stupid, sorry, blossoming democracy). Yeah, but it did not happen so, our rulers just do /_not_/ want to do this, what they must do, and what they /_can_/ do, no, they simply show off, stick out chest like the turkeys open their tail, don't give a damn about the others, pay no attention to reasonable propositions, show complete disinterest to the plight of population, and other similar features of our native ... barbarity!
-->So that here are my conclusions: firstly, I have been absolutely right in my deductions, estimations, and propositions, I have just kept my finger, as they say, on the /_pulse_/ of the people, have felt their worries and grievances, and if somebody has paid attention at me already then, there would have been /_no_/ discontents now (or at least would have been no /_reasons_/ for such), but who is to pay this attention? And secondly: my propositions and views, evolved further in my party NAPUK, are entirely /_feasible_/, when now they can be accomplished, be it only temporarily! Yet our rulers like to react then, when, as my father has said, the egg comes them to the bottom (what, as I think now, is cultured phrase, allusion about a hen, but in reality has to be understood as when /_that_/ thing comes to their #sses, for which we use the Gypsy word beginning like belling of a dog ['lajno'-sh#t, I have mentioned this]). Id est, the problems by us exist for the simple reason that we as if /_want_/ them to exist, want to leave everything alone, to happen what will happen, to drive through the millet [or helter-skelter]! Because, with one word, we have not Social Ministry, which has to develop social programs, to investigate the living standard of population, and so on (what I wanted already before NAPUK), and have only such that can make /_patches_/, to tie the pants [an idiom], to fight with the /_consequences_/ but not with the causes! Probably because if they begin to do what I propose, they will be taken for communists, but this, no, in no case, never again communism [the proverbial UDF slogan], everything else is allowed, even fascism, yet not communism, uh-uh-uh and down!
-->Well, I exceeded the usual here length, but because will not all the time add new postscriptums, I continue with the question about the ... mafias. This is also important question (at which I as if have not paid attention here), because this is beloved excuse of our people that, see, this ours is not democracy, this is mafia, everything is controlled, someone pulls the strings, and so on, but if it was not so, you would have seen how fast we would have blossomed and given fruits. What is judgement by the model that -- I beg the women to be excused -- to the bad cock the balls are guilty! Because, gentlemen, what is the mafia if not power in the power, state in the state, and why it appears? But clearly that because the official power does not work, gives not to the people this, what they, one big part of them want (like, in order to give an example, in one America has existed for nearly 30 years dry, but totally dry, law [or state], where even beer was not allowed to drink, what is -- I beg the (harebrained) puritans to be excused -- absolute stupidity, to such thing not only Bulgarians, but also Slavs can never come [all dry laws in Russia, as far as I know, have never been /_so_/ dry], this contradicts to the common sense).
-->Then comes also this, that a typically mafia country is Italy, and we are nearly like them, at the same geographical latitude, with the same banner (with slightly shifted colours, yet the same), alike also in our physiognomies (they are not with long Greek noses, they are like us), and are equally with us hated by the people on the West (the Italians for longer time, us for shorter, but the feelings are the same), so that it is normal also by us to have mafias. And not only one, by us there are mafias /_everywhere_/, the communists, remember, are since long time mafia, the /_Boikovists_/ [followers of 'Bojko' Borisov, the general, leader of GERB] are also mafia, the fascists, too, are mafia, and the Turks [MRF] are also this, and every administrative instance is mafia in its way (say, NSSI, where prominent their employees violate basic principles of Roman law, that what is not explicitly forbidden is allowed, yet it is impossible to prove this to them, and also the entire Bulgarian official public, parties, Government, /_media_/, an so on, stand -- with their silence on this question, with my total ignoring -- behind them, supporting the mafiosity). So that it is clear, that by us can exist only fight between one mafia structure and another one, and the important thing is not whether a given power is mafia, but whether it is right. Well, right mafia by us does /_not_/ exist, but as if the most right, the just one, are still the Turks (possibly with the support of newly arrived Arabs, and of /_old-arrived_/ Gypsies). The only right in principle are some NAPUK-ists, who still does not exist.
-->Yet I can just so, as impromptu, propose one new mafia, anti-/_party_/ one, in a sense of against /_all_/ previous parties, and would have even dared to be its secret boss (for there can't exist open bosses of mafias, if so this will not be mafia. right?), where I propose as first measure to make a list of eminent political leaders of all colours since 1990 until now, some 100 persons seem to me enough for the beginning, and to proceed with them in the following way: to all politicians-men to be cut out the balls, and to the politicians-women to be sewn their ... ah, I have lost my thought, damn it, at my age such things happen (as if it was slippers or pots [the salt here is lost because it has to rhyme with a slang for vagina], but can't be sure).
-->And at the end let me address the masses, that have to read me, only that they are not doing this. Gentlemen, you tell my name to at least one acquaintance of you, but even better to two, no matter that I am not published in Bulgaria, yet otherwise I can be found both on the East and on the West [looking from the position of Bulgaria, naturally], for some money and without such, according to your wish. Because I, really, am very overladen with work, I write under several pseudonyms, and at my 70 years work at least by 7 hours daily, but if you continue not to increase your reading of me I will begin to translate in foreign languages also my poetical things [what I have already begun, as you see], because they are, anyway, about 80 % prosaic, and the poetry I can retell somehow, and then the number of my works will grow, like for about 3 years they have become 30, soon they will become 40, maybe even 50, and will remain so, to tell you, for a heap of years in the Internet, or already copied by some people and in private hands, and will shame us as much as you want, and even more than this. Because I /_love_/ this our barbarity very much, it is so dear to my heart and soul, yet everything in its proper extent! And what means reading? Well, so about /_1,000_/ clicks per site /_daily_/; but well, so be it, because I am not a pop-star I would agree to about a pair of /_hundreds_/ daily, yet not less, because I tire myself for /_you_/, to me the /_money_/ which I receive /_is enough_/!
-->Well, the money is enough to /_survive_/, of course, but there what life can exist under our democracy (and in Bulgaria, I mean)? This our democracy ruined us totally, plunged us into the mud, now in Bulgaria the population lives worse than -- at least this is what the statistics show -- in the third world countries, amidst the African deserts, or in the islands of Pacific Ocean, no kidding. But notwithstanding this I am used to our democratic misery (when the democracy is something good, then for this must be paid dearly, isn't it?) and I don't need much money, and by much I understand /_more than 1/2 MMS_/, remember this! Because I am so long "baked" that am even overbaked [an idiom for very experienced], for me this money is equal to one whole MMS, honestly! And then I shell begin to live like a human, like it was in the times of our Uncle Tosho, only that this will not work well by me, something will not be enough. F.ex., I may decide to drink a cup of coffee on the street (what I don't do for at least 1/4 a century, because this will cost me 7-8 /_times_/ more than if I make it alone at home), or to spend some coin for an icecream, or hot-dog, something of the kind, or, say, to begin to buy myself doughnuts [what is not exactly so, I mean our 'banichki', what are baked pie sheets filled with something, usually white cheese] for breakfast -- oh my God, but this will be the same as if the totalitarianism has come back! --, or I will show a wish to visit, be it concert, be it theater (what of the both things is cheaper) once in a month, or to begin to travel in the town (what I still cannot allow myself, even by only 4 Euro monthly pass for the entire transport [we have this peculiarity to offer to persons in the age of ... dying, now this is after 68, twice or more times cheaper pass than for the usual pensioners -- because, I can tell you, otherwise they will travel without any ticket and raise noise with a possible controller that they have just no money], because my daily food ration rarely exceeds 0.60 Euro), or when I walk by some ... garbage can and see left there piece of bread I will not dare to take it (because I have become now a human being), and other similar examples.
-->Because I, maybe repeating some moments, but have stopped my fridge before about 15 years, have no sink in the kitchen because need urgent repair, which I postpone as if for 10 years, bread have already begun to bake myself (when can find flour for 0.35 Euro cents, and this gives exactly 1.5 kilo bread), milk I do not (but not at all) buy (as if for more than 20 years), meat also avoid (unless this is a chicken lantern [what I think you even do not know what is -- bare chicken carcass, or in pieces, but such parts which usually are not sold] from time to time), medicaments I do not (totally not) take (even aspirin; well, at least not more than 2 pills for the last 5 /_years_/) and visit no physicians, neither buy clothes, no whatever else except modest food (and exactly the last month have found out that one egg is enough for me for ... /_4 breakfasts_/, as sandwich, boiled, squashed, seasoned generously, smeared symbolically on a piece of bread, which is baked in a grill, and then I pour sunflower oil over it as much as it can absorb) and also the compulsory communal expenses; and similar things. And, you must agree, that if I can buy myself sometimes a bit icecream, then I will do this a pair of times, and then the money will begin not to be enough for me, so that I am not lying to you.
-->Well, that's it, gentlemen, the situation is difficult, but this is not yet genocide, our gene is /_preserved_/, in other countries, but for the world as a whole this is even better, for enriching of world genetic fund. And also by us it is not really tragic, it is true that we have no morality at all, but when now come the Turks (who are, still, believers), then we will begin little by little become more human-like. ( Because recently I personally have such a case, by one fruit and vegetables shop, after its closing, as it has become my habit, I reached to take some /_leaves_/ of salad, I repeat, separate pair of leaves, torn out, as appetizer for my evening, and at once from somewhere jumped an insolent guy, a real image of '/_mutra_/', how say now in Bulgaria, but this is Italian word, /_mutria_/, and means there also hired killer, and rushed at me and began to /_choke_/ me, and ordered with justified pride of a capitalist to /_leave the leaf_/, because he, see, was the owner of the shop, although I have never seen him to sell alone! Well, he did not succeed to choke me, no, only grabbed me by the throat, I crossed myself after this, no matter that am not believer, some people around intervened, and he got in his Japanese car and disappeared, but you see what is the /_image of Bulgarian business_/! )
-->Yet, how I said, it can be endured, as long as we are clear that the democracy for us has turned to sufferings for the masses heavier than during the Turkish yoke, because we are barbarians, have always been such, but under normal circumstances and equalizing between people this did not show off, while now, when is looked only at the money, it turned out that every relatively conscientious, moral, learned, or disabled in some aspect (I, f.ex., am not able to /_deceive_/, in order to sell something), must suffer. Well, I cope with the situation (because have studied too much, have my /_internal_/ life, which is bound to support me, have never aspired to luxury, etc.), but quite many suffer because are not like me (they want, say, to have a cup of coffee, but have not coins), i.e. I suffer because have studier /_much_/, yet the other 95 % of the destitute people by us have not studied, hence there are no reasons also for them to suffer from our stupid model of capitalism (which is stupid because is worse than in the developed Western countries)! And these miserable people in Bulgaria are at least half a million [out of 7], but probably also a whole one, and they have no brains for to organize themselves. Well, I am doing what I can in the remaining to me years life in 'B/_ug_/arsko'.
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-->Now, if you pay attention at the opening square bracket before the title, you will get it that this is new chapter, not included in Bulgarian original. This is not correct approach, but I am tired of making correction on dozen of sites, and when, anyway, I will be read in Bulgarian less than in English, in all appearances, and the Bulgarians can as well read me in English (for change), I decided to commit this sin and add things only here. But it is necessary to add something because we continue to do, if not exactly wrong things, than not the right ones.
-->The first moment is to tell you that my (absolutely) minimal (as half) pension is now, from January 21-st 305 Lv or 123 Euro, what as much as would have to make me happy the more makes me ... dissatisfied with our continuing messes! Because by MMS for Jan this year of 650 Lv my pension makes 47 % and this is, how to put it milder, immoral, maybe, for if we multiply this by 2 to get the minimum whole pension, it has to come to 94 % (or at least to about 85 because the relation is not exactly linear) of MMS, what I /_don't_/ believe is so, at least by the simple reason that this means that the things are tied together, are made proportional, what simply can't happen in a country where everything is done helter-skelter. And really, somewhere is said that the average pension for 21-th year (and let me remind you that here are taken only those with length of service nearly 40 years, these are not all pensioners, myself comes not in this number) becomes now 490 Lv, so that my social half minimum turns to come to 62 % of this enhanced average, what is, hm, unpedagogical (people may begin to think to work even less, just to catch the minimum)!
-->And really, if so the /_minimal_/ whole pension has to be about 450, something like that, and there is not big difference between my 305 and 450 (even 490), in any case the difference is not near to 2 times. Or otherwise looked, by MMS of 650 Lv. the /_average_/ salary has to be about 1440 (I have not succeeded to find exact data, but for the last year, by MMS of 610, it was 1350, and for this year is planned, i.e. to the end of it, to reach 1500, so that I must be right with just 1-2 % difference), and if it was 1470 this would have been exactly 3 times the average 490, i.e. 1/3, so that at the moment the average pensioner receives /_35 %_/ of his /her last salary. Yeah, but this is for 32 years of work on the average (in order to have 32 * 1.1 = 35.2 %), and under the bad totalitarianism 20 years of service were enough, on the average probably about 26-7 (because the men went on pension 5 years earlier and the women -- whole 10), and then the average pension was 70 % (from 60 to 80, where the less the salary, the /_bigger_/ must have been the percentage) of the last one, and there is now even the paradox of paying a pension /_tax_/, so to say, of about 8 %, because the employer pays only 2/3 of the instalment, and if you do not add the remaining sum your years are not counted for pensioning, and so on, so that you see that everything is still /_at least twice_/ (to thrice) worse than before!
-->Anyway, even if nothing is tied together, let me tell you my expert estimation, which is that the minimal social threshold for a whole pension has to be pretty near to /_70 %_/ of MMS (what on basis of 650 gives 455 Lv) and for half a pension the percentage has to be /_40_/ (or on the same basis this makes 260 Lv). So that, without falling into details, our authorities have touched only the deepest minimum, and everything else remains to be bettered. In this way I am highly suspicious that such like me, who fall below the threshold and because of this receive this social minimum, amount now for about 30 % if not more, and if one adds here the integration money it will turn out that /_half_/ or the pensioners receive something additional to the calculated by their system pension, what is direct proof that this their system or /_method_/ of calculation is ... rotten! The proper approach is to begin to raise that mysterious coefficient of 1.1 for each year of service to 1.15, then 1.2, then more, reaching even to 1.5 if necessary, and together with this, naturally, to raise also the very MMS, but here lies the main difficulty.
-->Then this, that for less than an year (still) my pension jumped from 176 to 305 Lv, means about twice increase for one year (real insanity), or more precisely 305 / 176 = 1.73 for 9 months! This surely means that everything is possible but we just don't want to think about the masses (what I said in the previous chapter), yet also that the wishes of the fascists are not entirely ungrounded; rather that they /_are_/ ungrounded, this is so, they are silly and if fulfilled will give a breakthrough somewhere, but the people begin to /_believe_/ that they are realizable, they begin to want such silly things and here lies the evil. So that, see, there are situations where it is bad in this way, but also in the other one. Because, roughly speaking, our standard of life can either: go down, or stay the same (let us allow also this possibility), or rise a little (surely not much, when we are 7 /_times_/ behind the Germans); yes, but below our level is impossible, we are the undisputed outsiders in the whole Europe (and, hence, in the civilized part of the world), to remain at the same level is also very bad because: for how long (?), there have passed 30 years already, and when something (not everything) is bettered than the question is: why only now, why not earlier? This reminds me one, I wouldn't say decent, but suitable, saying, that -- and let the girls and innocent children close their eyes and plug their ears till the end of this paragraph -- /_the more one moves_/, twists, or shakes, trying to get free, /_the deeper it penetrates_/ (and I hope you grasp well what and where penetrates)!
-->And now let me move to the mentioned in the first postscript anti-party, mafiotic like every other, because I have slept over my previous proposition a pair of nights and saw that it can be bettered a bit. There are several moments here. For one thing it will be ultra-left-wing, so utterly left- that can as well be taken for right- wing, too, and will be signified as /_PPP_/, what has to be deciphered as /_Paupers Purifying Party_/ (or also, as alternative name, Party for Punishing of the Politicians), which will be near to the hearts of the common people, who want to have moral politicians and to punish the bad ones. Then I mentioned 100 persons, but this can be refined, it suffices to punish only by 1 ... /_millionth_/ of the population, yet each /_month_/! For Bulgaria with its 7 mln people this means by 7 persons monthly (what comes roughly to nearly the same). Then the punishing for the men remains the same, unmanning, this is quite healthy procedure, applied for millenniums even without anaesthesia, and at the level of our current medicine there will be no problems to fulfill everything painlessly. Yet with the punishing of women politicians my first ideas were not much ripe, sewing of the vagina might turn to be dangerous to the health, may cause some inflammation, so that I decided here to be applied ... unilateral masectomy (or mastectomy -- what I have mentioned somewhere to the beginning of the book but have forgotten), what is often applied operation in the current days, i.e. they will become ... Amazons, and the choice of the /_mazos_/ is left to them (by default the right one).
-->Now let me precise the assessing of their badness, i.e. corruption, working not for the people but for money. Here for each of them will be computed one coefficient called ... /_PYSS_/, what you can read as 'pis' or as 'pajs', its up to you. (Like, by the way, in Bulgaria that IBAN code is read as 'ajban', because if read as 'iban', this in Bulgarian means, ha-ha or ho-ho, f#cked up!). So this PYSS is deciphered as "Product of Years by Standardized Salary", where for each year or part of it (proportionally) the period is multiplied by their salary divided by MMS, or even better by: (their-salary - minimal-salary) / minimal-salary. (say, if they have received 3000 Lv when MMS was 600 their SS will be (3000-600) / 600 = 2400 / 600 = 4.). This strange coefficient will be actualized often, and each month will be taken the first millionth number of politicians and /_purified_/ via the punishment in the name of peace and wellbeing of the population, and as warning for the new politicians.
-->The very PPP members will be excluded from this list, not only because as new party they will come to the end of the list, but also because they, as true communists, and in the spirit of my NAPUK party, will be rather cultic workers and live like priests, i.e. relatively affluent only while they are part of the instance which they represent, but not outside of it. More concrete this means that they will all receive only /_one_/ MMS salary, but big, I would say even huge, fringe benefits, like food, clothes, furniture, living premises, company vehicle, certificates for buying of goods in specialized for them shops, healthcare, education, even for the members of their families (even for the parents of eminent persons), but in cash only 1 MMS. Did you get it, how nice I have thought the things through? So that's it roughly.
-->And I sincerely wish to myself not to add more new things, because our situation is, like we use to say, muddy and bloody, and only God can help us (if He exists, what is extremely doubtful), but He, in all appearances, prefers to leave us as bad example for the other nations.
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