Ambivalence

These days it is almost impossible to avoid the news about the mass migration of Syrian citizens across the Balkans. The media reports on the situation at length and extensively, and all this is followed by a bunch of ``analysts`` who will inform the public from an ``professional`` angle about the seriousness of the situation...And the situation is serious. Tragic and senseless, but also completely unsuitable for empathy, at least not beyond the extent to which it is evolutionarily built into humans. The image of a child screaming in the arms of its parents while waiting for transit is disturbing (except for sociopaths, patriots and psychopaths) but all of this gains full context only if one scratches a little below the surface.

The situation in Syria (and Iraq), as places with the oldest continuous state apparatuses on the planet (in various forms) dating back 6,000 and perhaps 6,500 years - is yet another in an endless string of unequivocal evidence of the tragedy of statism, a reminder of the evil that the state symbolizes and of the total irony in the existence of statists as individuals and as groups, blind fanatical believers in the righteousness of the state that in one way or another has been destroying them for thousands of years, so that it will continue in the summer of 2015, when those same statists set off on a 5,000 km journey to escape from 'their' state and reach other states that are a lesser evil than theirs, although for the sake of truth with a much younger statist tradition - where no one wants them and whose politicians are up to their necks in the shit that is happening in the Levant.

Allegedly, Damascus was the city with the longest continuous urban `experience` on the planet, and Uruk the oldest city in general, although with a long-term interrupted continuity. And there, in the places with the oldest state tradition on the planet - there is no indication that time is an ally of the myth of the state as the `savior` of man. On the contrary, there, as everywhere, regardless of whether statism has existed for 500, 1000 or 6,500 years - the raw reality is quite clear, the state steals, kills, demolishes and rapes.

When one looks from this perspective, suddenly any humanistic urge towards millions of blind believers in statism subsides (faith in Allah is just a sad addition, a value-added tax on millennial idiocy). And the Balkan people, who are currently watching the migration live - don't worry at all, if any problem arises - the state will protect you, all you have to do is love it, invest strong and sincere emotions, pay taxes and respect your `social contract` that you probably have framed at home, on the wall, between the icon and the portrait of a random `national hero`.Really, who is to blame for the Syrians for making such a bad `social contract`, similar to the one made by the inhabitants of Yugoslavia since the beginning of the nineties? Why are they fleeing the territory of their state that persistently defends them, which they have loved since birth and perhaps even before that, in their mother's womb, the state that took care of them as if they were their own children?

Or all those billions over the centuries, killed by this or that state, all because of the fine print on the last page of the `social contract`, a major consequence of a small misunderstanding?

They will never learn...

Or they`ll need glasses.

Or contact lenses.

Or more death and destruction...

(Roger Mortis, 092)