MANU is leading in the wrong direction again

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Professor Denko Maleski, Photo: Free Press / Archive

A politician in a liberal democracy, unlike the one in the Middle Ages, can think that he will die peacefully in bed regardless of his policies. Wrong or right, all this, without bloodshed, is decided in elections every four years. Greek politicians ruined the country financially, but with a few exceptions, no one responded, the ruling party just changed its set and, after a break, leads the country again.

Macedonian politicians have condemned their own country to a four-century stagnation in the European integration process and here they are, alive and well, in defense of their old policies. Well, they may lose elections and take a two-year term, but there is no responsibility for wrong policies. Namely, in a liberal democracy all policies are on the free market, so if the people decide to choose the worst because it seems to them to be the easiest, that is their right. And all this due to the fact that in this sphere of human life in which heads were once beheaded, today, thanks to democracy, heads are counted in elections.

Pretty comfortable for modern rulers, isn't it? There is only one more comfortable position in Macedonian society that is not even subject to election verification, no matter how wrong it was. That is the function of an academic. Chosen for life, not always in a way that instills respect, the Macedonian academic is a specific creature. He carries the halo of the best in Macedonian thought, scientific and other, given to him by the institution that reproduces itself with new members similar to those who make the choice. This is where the problems begin because our academic who, believing that he is a supreme authority (and outside his professional field), begins to dream of repaying his people. And to strengthen his own reputation and position, of course. In the years of my unsuccessful cooperation with MANU, I realized that the dream of academics from other Balkan countries is a dream of ours as well: how, with a memorandum, to break the path of the people to a bright future and to justify the (un) deserved public reputation . Interestingly, the fact that such memoranda, which do not understand the real domestic and international politics but are based on national exaltation, have led the Yugoslav peoples into mutual wars, does not deter our academics from wanting the role of leaders of their people.

From the persistence with which the President of MANU, elected for his merits in his computer field as far as I know, and his fellow poet and literary critic, lead the campaign for their political views, the top Macedonian politicians can learn a lot, who gave up that leadership even two years ago. What was initially the academics' criticism of the government's policy towards Bulgaria has filled the entire vacuum left by the withdrawal of politicians with a total negation of the policies of all governments over the past thirty years. The emphasis of their criticism, however, remains on the "treacherous" policies of the current government.

In fact, riding on the wave of hurt national pride of the Macedonians and the dissatisfaction of the people with the difficult and unpopular solutions of an independent state in the struggle for survival, they demonstrate frightening ignorance of domestic and international politics. But the fact that the two academics are leading the country in the wrong direction is a problem of those who, in conditions of free political competition, decided to follow them. It is also a problem for politicians, who will soon realize that their leadership is imperative because if they do not lead the events, they will be led by them.

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