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The Top Shop vampires have been living among us for a long time. And not only among us, but within us. We have become them. Scenes in pubs and clubs, theaters and cinemas, streets and airports are more and more reminiscent of scenes from TV commercials. Fewer and fewer prominent people, more and more clowns from commercials. They rule the media. Aggression has become a synonym for common sense.

"Of course the information that the director who was replaced performed his tasks excellently seems quite irrelevant. His sin was that he did not belong to any "brotherhood of the stain". If he owned a company that won any suspicious tenders (which in Serbia sounds a sheer pleonasm), or if he at least owned some sports club, news stand or boutique – that is, if he were a member of something – he would be protected. But in the given situation, he was a moving target.

“So many lucid texts and observations on the Perspectives and Reflections site and so many precise diagnoses of the illnesses that destroyed the country’s organism in which so many authors were born all lead to a question of how is it possible that these voices—many also continuously heard during the collapse of Yugoslavia—could not stop all the tragedies that occurred?”

“After Zoran Đinđić’s murder a silent renovation of anti-European politics has been taking place. This is why the judicial reform has been so unsuccessful, this is why the commander-in-chief from the era of Milošević, otherwise a favorite of Vojislav Koštunica, who was suspected of helping organize Đinđić’s assassination, won the case for the second time and even got a substantial amount of money for the mental pain he had to go through. There is as much democracy in Serbia as is needed for...

[Translate to English:] "´V svetu palanke,´ pravi Radomir Konstantinović, ´je bolj pomembno držati se ustaljenega običaja kot biti osebnost. Vse, kar je pretežno osebno, individualno … je nezaželeno in to predvsem zato, ker je obljuba 'svetá' kot čiste negacije palanke torej obljuba slogovne raznovrstnosti, ta raznovrstnost pa je za palanskega duha čisto utelešenje neubranosti, glasba samega pekla.´"

“How is it possible that in the time when Yugoslavia collapsed evil triumphed like that? I constantly think about that. True, all the sides emptied their prisons. Thousands of pathological persons, psychopaths, and rigid murderers suddenly became powerful. A machinery of evil was released and later no one could stop it. Human darkness was on the horizon. The evil, united into a pack, got the power to decide and to judge. Many of the actors in this puppet theatre were hidden behind the curtain....