28 October 2009

Serbian "trivia" (7): did you know...?

…only 7 % of Serbian workforce earned university degree

…although wealthy Jews traders were supplying Serbian rebels with free arms in their struggle against Turks 19th century Serbia “rewarded “ Jews upon liberation with a number of anti-Semite laws

...so far some 500,000 trained and educated young people left Serbia over the past 20ish years in hope of better and safer life, trend continuous

05 October 2009

9 years on…where are the doers?

It is Oct 5, and 9 years on Serbia (together with dangerous Tadic, dogmatic Jovanovic, and comedian Korac etc ) still has:

-kept away from international integrative and internal reform process by stigmatizing ICTY/NATO/EU-AA

- refused to come to the terms with the past

-refused to engage in deep socio-cultural transition and establish firm civilization and cultural matrixes elsewhere internationally widely accepted

-maintain closed society littered with xenophobia and violence, with no reformist media and strong watchdog NGOs

- preserved internal and international absence of flow of people and ideas

- refused to reform and impose civil and democratic control over police and army

- kept rampant political parties controlling the entire state free of any policy processes or program budgeting

- maniacally kept clientalism and nepotism dominant over merit and professionalism

- nurtured command economy to the benefit of few

- preserved economic monopolies and extortion of families’ budges

- stayed away from organizing independent and/or efficient judiciary

- kept parliament as political parties legislative machinery-free of any parliamentarsim

-made sure that the brain drain still goes on for 20 years now

- yet to free people from etatist, collectivist, and nationalist imperatives, and legitimize aspirations for individual prosperity

No political party in Serbia during the past 9 years, including of DS and LDP (and tkz. GSS and SDU), ever considered introduction of monitoring and evaluation as professional and good governance performance measurement tools. In no shape, size, or form. This is way as far as they are concerned they are happy being privileged “eternal revolutionaries” achieving no social change whatsoever.

Are they are not hijacking the valuable liberal-reformist space on the political spectrum in Serbia? What is the mechanism for their accountability, re empowerment and/or replacement?

I am personally sick of having to regularly be an abstinent voter and feel bad about that.

They surely can not be the best this society can yield in terms of liberal and reform minded thinkers and doers.