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Profile of Bora Cosic
Off course we have to respect human beings [...]
Bora Cosic: Off course we have to respect human beings as human, and the rest of living world we must respect as it is. Every leaf, every tree, every stone should be appreciated as it is. A good relation to the appearances surrounding us is in each being individual. We can’t value a human as a stone, so we have to value squirrel as it is and not as Hedy Lamarr. Everything exiting has right to bee acknowledged and on good relationship.
I don’t believe as in Marxism that [...]
Bora Cosic: I don’t believe as in Marxism that capitalism is a particular period in the history, nor that’s clear that after slavery comes feudalism, after it capitalism, after it famous blooming period in the humanity that is socialism and after it communism. This kind of understanding is too patterned. I believe that capitalism is a very effective system in (goods-money) and production relations. It is intelligent to keep some of its elements in the future systems. However I don’t know what kind of system will be ruling in next 100, 200 or more years, but I do believe that something of this economically effective system will maintain.
Just like every dictatorship uses democracy [...]
Bora Cosic: Just like every dictatorship uses democracy for its own interests, as constitution of it's govern, similarly dictators (rulers) can make use of globalization to maintain there lordship. Maybe sometime globalization will serve democratic forces, sense it is about: unifying many fragmented constituents, better organization of the live, etc.
Regardless to your skin color, you have to [...]
Bora Cosic: Regardless to your skin color, you have to slowly emancipate your self in the country you are living in. Then living somewhere is often coincidence, especially if the person is born there. However, not even father country has all rights on the people that grow up there. My Serbs and Croatians suffer from the same disease as you. Often they are resent on the birth clod and often their lives on it are hard, but still they fall in enthusiasm by home lands name being mentioned or the sight of its flag. This is a sign that those people are immature. However, the fact that you asked this question yourself, I rely on the fact that you will achieve this mature sooner or later.
Each person has to gain the human dignity [...]
Bora Cosic: Each person has to gain the human dignity for him self. However before that, he must resign of every kind of self oppression through: politics, ideology, religion, nationalistic narrowness. We must remember how many people in foretime, (for example of my country, and of society where I lived, grow up, and developed) in socialism, (no matter what kind of socialism, the soft one of former Yugoslavia or the hard one of Columbia), were ready to sacrifice them self, not in the sense of sacrificing one self in the war or in some big battle, but in the complications of everyday life of these societies. This underlying to the every decision of government on harm of own integrity, that was the problem of people of that era. When the human being must own his dignity with his own resources.
Since you Amy Johnson, are asking this [...]
Bora Cosic: Since you Amy Johnson, are asking this question from U.S.A., you will have to answer your self’s why do you do that.
Every system is corrupt in some sense, [...]
Bora Cosic: Every system is corrupt in some sense, especially economic systems, primarily nowadays, when big economic happenings take place. Off course this increases the profit in an appealing way and simulates people in to the corruption. Breaking down those systems with force brings no good, we already know to what this leads. It could be possible to reform those systems with some genial idea, even that genial ideas are rare. I believe it’s better to force reform through increscent of conscience. This also might be a romantic idea. But I believe that, conscience as global position of human race should slowly increase.
I'm not specialist in economy, so I'm not [...]
Bora Cosic: I'm not specialist in economy, so I'm not really suitable for this question. But probably by some economic handling of the human environment, by handling of the animal environment and everything around us, we can achieve something. However to answer your question properly a specialist (economic mind) is needed.
Off course it is social responsibility. I do [...]
Bora Cosic: Off course it is social responsibility. I do not know any kind of sociality which enables the responsibility of firms them self there, there are always some kind of ideological or economical catch. In socialism it was always spoken of some general standards in independence of community, in capitalism there are some other standards. However I do not know which method can be established to make the responsibility of corporate true.
I don’t believe that society balance [...]
Bora Cosic: I don’t believe that society balance dependence only on women occupying general positions. Much more it depends on the behavior of intelligent people on those positions, the more intelligent people the smaller part of idiots. The question is, are there enough intelligent people for the mass of jobs with high responsibilities? Again I’m trying to avoid ghettoisation of feminine species, and counting how much women posses which position, which is similar to counting of black-, yellow-, red-, or white- skin people in some position. For me it’s much more important that those people are intelligent, and that there are as much as possible of them.
Darwin’s theory has certainly its fundaments [...]
Bora Cosic: Darwin’s theory has certainly its fundaments in the knowledge Darwin obtained but for me its poetic metaphor. The development of the African continent, which unfortunately was very difficult and still shows the suffering of its people until today, has no direct ties with the scientific fundaments Darwin created. This is similar with a child born in a family without heritage. So the Africa of today and the Africa during human history have nothing to do with the idea that human live began on that continent. Things like this happen, just as they happen in many of smaller environments, for example small families.
Sense when it’s socially acceptable to hoard [...]
Bora Cosic: Sense when it’s socially acceptable to hoard wealth? It is just necessary evil! However there are many faces to the whole complex of enrichment. I understand that some people impulse to create, a new fabric, a new industrial drivetrain (engine), or a whole new way of production. Without it there wouldn’t be European civilization and American by no means. However in this complex of enrichment there is a psychological moment, when someone who is starting from a small workshop grows into the chain of glamorous fabrics where 1 million of people work, it becomes a whole imperia. I guess that that person goes crazy of hoards, not only of hoards of wealth, but of hoards of ideas. I believe in every work there should be only one idea and not a lot of them.
Clearly then when law its self is a [...]
Bora Cosic: Clearly then when law its self is a mistaken: set by will of minority, used for dictatorship and in so is an illegal it self. In that case I believe its regular breaking it; however we should first try to change mistaken laws.
From this question we can see nicely that [...]
Bora Cosic: From this question we can see nicely that this conflict can't be discussed about general human rights, about universal rights of every human being, if we live in the society that is traditional, religious in over dimension, colored with high dimensions of nationalism. First of all we must get rid of this elephantiasis, nationalism etc., and then we can start to think about rights of every human being.
I don’t think about that antinomy, since I [...]
Bora Cosic: I don’t think about that antinomy, since I don’t believe that the whole world is organized by principle of secret alliances, Masons etc. Off course is a company like Coca Cola whole imperia. If it leads White House or White House leads it, this is not of interest for me. It is more dramatically that such a brand, and there are hundreds of them, presents a Moloch, which drives world’s audience crazy and stupid. Instead of seeing that what I see in such a public peace: a bit of global ornament, trade mark of the company and something interesting in visual sense, an object. In Berlin during world cup in football (soccer), someone thought of presenting 6 most important brands in Germany: Aspirin, football (soccer) shoes, note letter, automobile (car), a book, and Einstein’s formula, as sculptures in style of Claes Oldenburg. So there are others that share my opinion in this city.
It comes to human dishonesty! Everyone [...]
Bora Cosic: It comes to human dishonesty! Everyone wishes to gain goods as cheap as possible, however when something like China syndrome brakes out, practically goods go cheaper because they are made in China, we go jealous of the fact that they are able of producing something in a cheaper way, and maybe of the same quality as made in other countries. Before the Second World War occurrence of damping of goods that came as well from Far East, Japan, made a big problem in European market there they were much cheaper then domestic. This is happening right now with China, but the resistance against China is an old syndrome of anti Chinese atmosphere of last decades, sometimes even for the good reasons. However there is huge fear of the big size of this land, which will maybe make wonders, and the fear from one very important fact, that is the sedulity of its people.
Education systems are different, when [...]
Bora Cosic: Education systems are different, when madam from India speaks about "our" education system, which is then Indian education system, about which I do know almost nothing. But about systems I know, for example systems in Serbia, Croatia and also of Germany, they are on such an level that those kids being educated and coming out of those schools do know almost nothing. It is a catastrophic narrow teaching program, which cares very little for general knowledge and general culture. Off course in this era technology of knowledge gaining is being highly promoted, for example computers, however, I don’t see that being enough. If someone doesn’t know who Natasha Rostova is, or what an Brandenburg’s concerts is, or something of that kind, not even to speak of Baltus or Nabucco or Andre Breton, in that case the situation is tragically.
Rather is 3rd word poor because we are wealthy.
Bora Cosic: Rather is 3rd word poor because we are wealthy.
While we are biased, intolerant, illiberal, [...]
Bora Cosic: While we are biased, intolerant, illiberal, amatory, sometimes stupid, and sometimes we really believe that someone due to his talents is more worth more then other person. Off course there could be made a lot of differences between Shakespeare and butcher, but both of them are just two human beings with deferent occupations. Without equality between those two persons, which we our self must set, there is nothing.
Once again I’m not expert in economics. [...]
Bora Cosic: Once again I’m not expert in economics. Probably is micro financing better idea, hence it’s about helping small economic groups then other way around. Macro financing activates in me an antipathy of some huge, tense up, over dimensional systems. I immediately think about [Deacon] or [Daicon], and about global larceny.
Primarily because in a big part of the world [...]
Bora Cosic: Primarily because in a big part of the world women are victims of addle retro traditions, though in which lower beings (animals, plants, etc.) are respected. However in developed societies, feminine population brings its self in neglected position, by self ghettoisation, [sifrasion], which separates feminine humans as something special. Which only men’s absolutism and fascism are capable of. It might be, that domains in which women occupy part of social rights, are domains which men abandoned in Léger manor as unimportant. Even if it is politic for example.
I believe that drugs are one of passions, [...]
Bora Cosic: I believe that drugs are one of passions, but there are many different of them. Destroying drugs by some magic stick, would spare a lot of bad destinies, a lot of death outcomes, and would greatly reduce the criminality. However by doing so we won’t automatically change human nature which always finds some supplement to everyday course, most of the people need to hold a cigarette or to take alcohol, to drug themselves in any possible way and not only with those pills that have a bad reputation. This would be one palliative solution, but it won’t solve the problem of human nature.
On the first sight something like this seems [...]
Bora Cosic: On the first sight something like this seems strange, how can I be responsible for an event that is happening so far away and how am I spouse to do something about it? However, after thinking about it and gaining some information about all kind of events happening in global pharmacy industry, and which malversations are there happening, things appear in different light. Off course I can’t claim anything for sure, but it can be seen clearly that big Pharmacy manufactures are able of finding a methods to sell necessary medicine against aids much more expensive on African continent. By doing so they increase possibilities of aids. What could, big, free, brave, etc. world do about it? Well probably in some way boycott such kind of industry, there medicine etc. But it’s very hard to assure something like that in this place and in this kind of discussion, which is general and global.
Off course we can’t counteract the violence [...]
Bora Cosic: Off course we can’t counteract the violence with violence, by doing so we don’t achieve anything. To those who hate we must not show our own hate and to the anger (evil) of others we must not show our own anger (evil). Primarily we should increase our own conciseness, which will help us not to be violent, angry or evil. After that if there is enough of us we can show collective resistance by: peaceful acts, persistent contravention, continues announcing of own opinion, not agreeing upon any negative phenomena, not keeping silent towards evil, getting reed of cowardice which leads to the slavery. So we should primarily be free, strong-willed and doubtless people. Last but not least we shouldn’t make from our opposition towards bad governments a new profession.
First we should give the young people [...]
Bora Cosic: First we should give the young people possibility of education, of employment, of the productive live. This means we should work on the increscent of general culture, education and social welfare. It’s sinless to tolerate intellectual garbage on TV or elsewhere and a miserable, dogmatic, restrictive education system and then expect a generation of not frustrated, sensible and pleased young people, which don’t kill the pharmacist to come to the drugs. Young people are very special people, and dominion in modern world which we should take good care of and not look upon as upon our own colony.
Nowise! There in the current system there [...]
Bora Cosic: Nowise! There in the current system there will be always an argument for savaging huge amounts of the money on weapons. If it were not so then off course this fortune could be spend on the science, on the healthcare, on saving of the environment or general development which is growing very slow for the aggressive militant politics of a lot of governments.
Because, both sides don’t wish the peace, at [...]
Bora Cosic: Because, both sides don’t wish the peace, at least not till predominance of one of them is satisfied. So each side expects that the predominance will remain on their side, until this doesn’t become real, no kind of peace suits them. However, this stalemate situation of the whole region suits the superpowers of the world. Through this their role, apparently as peacemakers, and actually of interventions and patrons, extends into the infinity. Superpowers love not only being judges in the ring where none stop the feasts are exchanged, but also supreme judges. In situations like that, it’s hardly possible to overcome the state where the peace exists only as truce or fire pause. This absolutely doesn’t end this war that is going on for decades.
Human population, citizens, and residence [...]
Bora Cosic: Human population, citizens, and residence can allways try to oppose bad and especially agresive politic of there own government. I believe that peace movement like hippies in America helped ending the war in the Vietnam. Nowadays American society is flabby in that sense, so some author or sensible group of people that are signing some petition have no good chance to stop or change current violent and retro politics. In Serbia similarly a part of people tried to draw down Milosevic’s politics, however nowadays Milosevic’s politics is being continued but most of the people are silent and some even agree with the situation and blames others for own bad destine. Everything depends on conciseness and wish of the people to prove there own lifes.
In Europe we already have global government [...]
Bora Cosic: In Europe we already have global government in the Brussels. Is it solving our regional or national problems? I don’t believe so. Maybe it is not global enough, but important question is, is it possible to solve problematic in big forms? As long as small regions, areas even whole nations can’t deal with there own problem every solution coming from outside will look more or less like an intervention. Events in Iraq are example of such a maximal regulation of some self declared global government.
Because the powerful are those which are [...]
Bora Cosic: Because the powerful are those which are making the terminology. When someone tries to attack the powerful, then they are allowed in self-defense to make bloody scenes in interaction with terrorist. However it is terror as well to destroy residential areas or kill innocent people only because someone from same nation did terrorist or saboteur act in some bus, on some street, or somewhere else. It is the same. Terror is happing there when some action is made by force against someone who is not using force, someone who is innocent, some one who is passer by on the street.
Angela, with her 32 years, had to learn that [...]
Bora Cosic: Angela, with her 32 years, had to learn that there are no ultimate criteria in the world by which one most regressive phenomenon, such as an increase of victims in a war and warfare would even be efficiently judged and stopped. We know how the missions of the United Nations are caricaturly exposed. Even when a particular conflict is stopped, then a mass of misusages appear which are then taken advantage of by the peace makers themselves. Mostly everything ends in declarations and slowly executable resolutions. How many dead did fall in the last months in the Middle East, and everything began with kidnapping of two soldiers. The world is inefficient in that to save themselves by themselves, and that is why the matter are going the way they are.
You have answered the question negatively, [...]
Bora Cosic: You have answered the question negatively, since you called our security "supposed security". Should we at all offer our liberty for something which is foggy, unsure and supposed? Big part of oppressive régimes specially so called socialistic regimes in near past used paroles of outside danger and threaded by unknown enemy, to increase oppression towards the population. By doing so they made lives of population to the living in the armed camps.
In this question to me is this phrase "our [...]
Bora Cosic: In this question to me is this phrase "our way of life” suspicious, as if our way of life were so ideal that we can’t talk about it with reserve. Off course the pundits from non democratic countries must understand where they live, but this shouldn’t keep them from the seeing some bad sides of free world. Critical view on the every point in this world should be one of the basic human rights. How an individual comes to the ability of this kind of looking upon the things depends also on the level of his own maturity.
There is always a possibility for the people [...]
Bora Cosic: There is always a possibility for the people of the world help each other and positively act towards each there; there is no government that can prohibit this. An example for this is the tunnel citizens of Berlin were digging under the wall separating them, even though that from the eastside even every bird trying to fly over was shot dad. Other touching example is of the Hollander that send his small dispatches in occupied Sarajevo, some salt in the envelop or needle and thread. I believe this is more useful as a model and sign of solidarity than the savage that’s being thrown out of planes in the crisis territories, sometimes even without knowing where dose bombs of humanity land.
Free choice of residence should be one of [...]
Bora Cosic: Free choice of residence should be one of the basic human rights. In this sense we should forget expressions like asylum, refuge, exile, etc people must have right to live where they like the best. I live in Berlin not as immigrant even that I left my own country out of the political and moral reasons. But I started the life here out of the free choice, I also could have gone somewhere else but I didn’t. There today I'm in Berlin on the [...] on the Babel square trying as all of the others to change the meaning of this square where once books have been burned and now there is a monument of Book here in front of the university.
Finally a question from a philosopher was [...]
Bora Cosic: Finally a question from a philosopher was asked. Beside all painful episodes thru which black population went on the way to the relative equality in American society, beside all victims of this innocent people, by the force of events there was a brake thru to the mixed society, a step towards a united word and colored world not only in sense of the skin colors. If Africans weren’t brought to America maybe something else would have happened, there world probably tends toward some kind of unity in the worlds metaphysical means. However it can not always achieve it without agony. If we look back at Napoleons wars which were very aggressive, where those good dressed soldiers occupied so many territories and poured so much blood, however along the way by the force of the events big areas were united, similarly to the peaceful unification of Europe which is slowly happening nowadays. There are strange events in history that even philosophers can’t explain.
(Smiling)... We shouldn’t need a better [...]
Bora Cosic: (Smiling)... We shouldn’t need a better solution then the democratic one, weren’t democracy as idea and in the praxis been 100 of time devaluated. Let us only remember how many countries of very suspicious democracy carry this word in there own name. Of course some socially justified society would be even more suitable. However I don’t wish to use the word socialism here, which is also being drawn in the mud by socialist tyrants and dictators. Thus I believe we should stick to the democracy and democratize it as much as possible.
There is no holy war and there is no [...]
Bora Cosic: There is no holy war and there is no justified war! War is evil that can always be escaped if there are people good willing to solve there controversies, conflicts and problems in peaceful way. Holy war is something specially perfidy there it uses religion as a base for payoffs with those who have deferent belief of our own. Starting from Christian wars to the ethnic cleanings in Bosnia and Kosovo, its all comes down to the extermination of the people of other religion, nation or ethnic group. Justified war is also a flowerily phrase that beers justification of armed conflicts in the name (for the sake) of higher goals. But who is going to ascertain this justice in which name the war is being fought?
Bulgaria is a very educative sample to our [...]
Bora Cosic: Bulgaria is a very educative sample to our unlucky ex- Yugoslavia where mass of heads fell. Also Russia didn’t go through some vandal contra revolution even though it got stuck in deep mud of transaction problems. In Russia people are dying in criminal acts, some of cold and demand others from vodka. How can such a huge creation like U.S.A. be transformed to something else at all is question that need to be answered first, after that we can think about the ways of the execution.
This is a very strange thing, but terrorists [...]
Bora Cosic: This is a very strange thing, but terrorists are those who benefit at least from terror, they often pay with they lives for the terror they produce them self’s. However highest benefit gain the leaderships of the big countries that gain points from a wide range of there residence for fighting an apparently defensive war against this evil. How else would it be possible that an miserable person as current American president would re-win the presidential elections, if not by convincing a stupid mass that he is saving the nation from terror danger coming from outside.
Our live circumstance are not such that we [...]
Bora Cosic: Our live circumstance are not such that we are on the front line in the war, and most of us are somehow socially secured, we also don’t live in the regions of often quakes, so the courage means: steady representation of own options (thinking), no making of compromise, absence of lies, in one word “being mature”. Courage can also be in: solving everyday problems in the life or within the family, fighting with tough diesis, resistance towards many of things surrounding us. There it represents a challenge for some courage that is maybe in each of us, however some prefer not to exhibit it and others make huge hero pose out of it.
Clearly each nuclear bomb, even one build by [...]
Bora Cosic: Clearly each nuclear bomb, even one build by group of urchins is equally dangerous. I don’t see deference between Iranian and American nuclear bomb. However it is so that Americans think that only their own nuclear bombs and of there alliances are legal and any other is not. However, all nuclear bombs contain of same material.
This is a legal question in front of which a [...]
Bora Cosic: This is a legal question in front of which a literal stands in full ignorance. Understandably, to apply public international law effective enforcement mechanisms are needed. However what is in the justice system unjust and can a reasonable sense be found in the whole sphere of global busyness? It is difficult to answer this question positively and optimistic.
Politic is by great portion exhibited by [...]
Bora Cosic: Politic is by great portion exhibited by violence. This is more visible in dictatorships, however in so called democracy this is done underhand. All this begins from the imagination of the politicians that, whole population and there live depend on the political and national leadership. However, as big part of living people feel resistance towards current state, so the politic starting from Plato to our time uses laws, by which usage of pressure becomes legal.
There are deferent variants of colonization [...]
Bora Cosic: There are deferent variants of colonization that exist even nowadays after the disposal of the simple slavery of some African or other countries. Now it’s European turn! Events happening in the countries of transaction look much like the colonization of Belgium in Congo. Former socialistic countries are the new Africa in which the financial bands of highly civilized Western Europe are routing.
Freedom is the feeling that each person has [...]
Bora Cosic: Freedom is the feeling that each person has to eke out with him/her self. Off course it is easier to feel free in country of developed democracy then for example in Cuba. However even a Cuban or a Serb has to feel free to represent his own convictions no matter how expensive that might be.
This is a classical dilemma since ancient [...]
Bora Cosic: This is a classical dilemma since ancient times. Off course we should feel responsibility towards society but not in the way of tyrants of Stalinism or of some religious groups of narrow minds. There oppressing of own character and of own rights and the subjective acting leads to slavery, no matter how effective they are in building of pyramids. Every human being builds an Eiffel tower with his/her own skills. There is no absolute authority no matter of which kind that could define the borders of human freedom and his/her responsibilities, also his/her responsibilities towards others. Each person should be such an authority for him/her self, as Kant taught us by categorical imperative.
I just answered similar question, there I [...]
Bora Cosic: I just answered similar question, there I will add following to it. I don’t know what can be efficient in our straggle. If we hold to the above mentioned principles, we will always be barehanded, weak, and sometimes in small numbered. Last year I was in my ex-country Serbia, in the Belgrade a 2 million people city. Big part of them are holding to there pitiful government, big part is cowardly keeping silent and endures the hardship. Only one center called “For The Decontamination Of The Soul" performs: discussions circles, conferences, subjects oriented circles, literal readings, exhibitions, theater plays and so on day to day. This center gathers only some few hundreds of people, but still it is a point beaming with the freedom, intelligence and most important with the hope. Similarly there is an unique Magazine issued in the Croatia in the city Split and called "Feral Tribune", this magazine has tight spin and is being hindered with deferent tricks even though journalisms in the Croatia is free. Still honorable and intelligent people read this magazine as rare delight. So there is always possibility to do something.
It would be more intelligent to live without [...]
Bora Cosic: It would be more intelligent to live without heroes, which are them self’s tragically persons, there sooner or later they disappoint those whose heroes they were. I don’t have a special hero, however I’m happy that in past there were people like Joyce, Nabucco, Svevo, Bach, Piero della Francesca, Andre Breton and Sigmund Freud.
I this question there is a discrepancy. [...]
Bora Cosic: I this question there is a discrepancy. Copyright (author right) laws give some protection to innovative and creative individuals, not full protection but at least some. There we shouldn’t dump them but do so that they increase the mental invention of the authors, not only those who deliver million of examples of nothing and are more similar to an industrial branch, but to the profession of culture.
Probably there is one, however it is being [...]
Bora Cosic: Probably there is one, however it is being crossed on daily bases by technological, economical, and civilization development. Now it is already very difficult to control this. Don’t you see that sane human being is an insane existence in the universe? Human being is committing a sin not only towards the nature but also towards him/her self. However this is special and unique event of human existence in the universe.
Control is always possible, with modern [...]
Bora Cosic: Control is always possible, with modern tehnological means it’s easier to be achieved. There is no more need for earpeaces of the not solidary neighbors. Here we must remember a pervious question about modern courage. So let us be courageous in the face of the unknown criminals which will threaten us with anything, let us be indifferent about the fact if someone is observing us or not. One day hopefully the last secret archive will be opened and the influence of all secret police services will decrease. I believe it is good to live like Hollanders without curtains no matter if someone is watching us when we undress or note.
Humans are domesticated in masses nowadays, [...]
Bora Cosic: Humans are domesticated in masses nowadays, however only partially by technology. Thus masses of those home helpers decrease consumption of physical energy of the human body but the most dangerous of these helpers is TV which broadcasts 24/7 of spiritual misery and which also causes an increase of the consumption of junk food. All together not every mixer or radiator is guilty but that bug in the head of most of us, which lets us amuse ourselves with comfortable, cheep and fast stuff, without engrossing the mind, without making effort, without any self incentive. Hoards of people on the streets of the civilized world demonstrate how easy it is to procure the food, which doesn’t hold for Africa and many other starving regions. However this Crème de la Crème of nations also demonstrates a level of conscience which is pitiful. There is a whole unhappy nation which comes to its pleasures by hurriedness and without any distress, which comes later when some of them understand that they are converted to their own pets.
This is a political-economical question. I [...]
Bora Cosic: This is a political-economical question. I don’t believe that human communities should be made out of political measures especially not out of national measures. Human community which I hope regardless to the general globalization will consolidate in numerous similar shelters, should look like Istrian village which united few friendly families, with similar points of view, mood and off course similar assets. There, there is no good from gathering of the poor which in inhuman situation in which they are, tend to making of bad decisions, regardless to there personal morals or other values and qualities. Today, all of us here also represent a village, either our Istrian or other; we are here also a small economical community which however isn’t trading but spending these few hours together.
... every spring of water, every mine of [...]
Bora Cosic: ... every spring of water, every mine of copper, every source of crude oil, these are blessings of our planet. If someone is near to some of them, then of course he/ she was very lucky. However this doesn’t automatically mean that heir that we get from the mother earth should be given to the first user. To correct this, the way the world works should be changed, which is a romantic idea without optimistic chances. Word is made of not happened events, impossible possibilities, unrealized goals.
We shouldn’t be against the modern [...]
Bora Cosic: We shouldn’t be against the modern technology but against its misusage. Once again I’m giving appeal for the sake of the freedom of announcing own ideas no matter if some is watching us with its detective eye or not. We must not make closed intellectual societies with there secrets and spy discretions. I feel free to announce on TV or somewhere else the same stuff that I write in the letter to a friend. This is my way.
If we listen to the experts, scientist and [...]
Bora Cosic: If we listen to the experts, scientist and intelligent people, especially if some of them are to be found in some government, then we can do a lot. But if we keep the same course as now then we will come to the situation of Croatian boor that say on the tongue of big Croatian poet "Miroslav Krlez" :"may it be nowhere, may it never be", which is a fusty almost medieval way of understanding. We must get out of our European medieval.
There are no unimportant information’s, even [...]
Bora Cosic: There are no unimportant information’s, even when it sometimes seems as we were showered with senseless stuff, there is some system in this. As if someone intends to dig us in this savage. There we should be careful about that what seems to be unimportant there for someone it’s very important.
Scientific projects and experiments are [...]
Bora Cosic: Scientific projects and experiments are always a bit risky, sometimes even on the boarder of being dangerous; probably there is no other way around. I don’t know enough about genetic experiments in botanic, so I won’t talk about it. However what Opad Menzel did two centuries ago in his dorm by mixing different green peas together is wonderful poetic attempt on the living nature and its feeding purposes. Micurin’s soviet futurism is less interning to me, there it seems to be something like the productions of the two heads dog.
Science is always trying to objectify the [...]
Bora Cosic: Science is always trying to objectify the world, trying to present useful knowledge that is unknown, hidden and staunched in the stomach of the world. However even science is human work, effort of human brain and his/her combinatory, of human which tends to making false conclusion or rash hypothesis. It’s correct to say that science straggles to come to the objective world through many curves and hard ordeals.
I believe that humans are cable of [...]
Bora Cosic: I believe that humans are cable of increasing of general warming of the humanity in some spiritual way, by increasing there conscience and education, by cultivating there attitude towards others. However warming madam form Missouri asked about is probably the warming of earth atmosphere, which is a subject of experts. However individual can contribute to it by correct usage of natural environment which was land to him/her for his/her lifetime. However some caution towards every blade of grass every stone every jet of water enables co-existents of those elements next to the harmful existents of human beings. How this should be done is a challenge for the expertise.
This is one more question coming from [...]
Bora Cosic: This is one more question coming from America and concerning American politics and American way of the life. If something depends from American community which accepts every day’s wastage of natural resources which affects many poor regions, then its matter of conscience of Americans and not of Indians or Chinese. There it’s not understandable that the Chinese or Indians assail on U.S.A., its Americans that should assail on U.S.A. and its uncultivated politics towards common goods, starting by incensement of there own conscience in those matters.
As first we need urbanism, there what is [...]
Bora Cosic: As first we need urbanism, there what is happening in small and big residential areas is a nightmare: often containing very suspicious ideas, there is no general idea or long term direction. After that come constructors which are also very different, some wish to finish there projects as fast as possible and quarter people under the roof as fast as possible, others how ever in there huge sometimes even strange projects work on quartering of soul and making of the beauty, on making of really human worth space. Of course a lot of this depends on resources and material possibilities there maybe we should invest less in the production of cannons and fight airplanes.
World in the future should be more skilled, [...]
Bora Cosic: World in the future should be more skilled, more comfortable, and most of all more intelligent. Technological advancement is off no use to the world if it losses its soul. However it’s very impolite to give recipe for the future, people who then live should decide about it by looking back on how we lived and are still living.
Media like any other mean in human lives can [...]
Bora Cosic: Media like any other mean in human lives can be positive or negative, depending in whose hands it lays. Off course media increases general views and global information, however it can also be misused for manipulation or from dictators. Even for culture it can make problems and not chances, sense million of minutes of TV trash, like Latin American series, deduct possibility of any mental progress day to day. This shows real problem of human population, we apt to nonsense if it pleases or hypnoses us.
This is a wonderful and very naive question, [...]
Bora Cosic: This is a wonderful and very naive question, there the young man from France is not only interested if it is possible to combine machines with human brain, but he also wishes to know when this will happen. I believe that we can await a lot in future. Everyday there are new hypotheses similar to the one saying: "Our world is just a simulation of the other world", thus in our world so much unreasonable and unreal is happening. However I prefer to look at it as a literal idea of the H.G. Wells.
It is still a long way to the equality in [...]
Bora Cosic: It is still a long way to the equality in education. As millions of the people are dying of hunger it’s difficult to imagine that kids out of these corners of the world are getting anything from the big bank of world’s knowledge. Bred and book should be given to them in parallel.
Human being feels as lonelier as more people [...]
Bora Cosic: Human being feels as lonelier as more people surround him/her, this is understandable paradox. There are some weirdoes which are ready to spend whole life alone, sometimes guided by certain constructive idea. However most of the people, even those who are creative and full of vacations, feel at most comfortable in small groups, the big world is not made out of an individual, but from many small worlds similarly to the universal systems.
We live in the time of ignorance there [...]
Bora Cosic: We live in the time of ignorance there knowledge is concentrated in small groups of brains from which knowledge’s core energy is being scooped for needs of big companies, global mechanics of the word, or in one word authorities. On the other hand there is big mass of ignorance which increased by increase of population. It isn’t the problem that nowadays people don’t read enough but that they read more and more of literal savage. Which’s production, is very profitable and booming. Beside all this mourning conclusions it is a fact that modern technologies like computer and internet can intensely help undirected and poor population, there they deliver huge mass of information. It is other question if they contain the knowledge of the world, thus it will always be possible to selectively serve particular knowledge, I don’t believe always or all of it. If that mass becomes the recourses for intellectual production, that sickle and hammer, nowadays so called computer and internet, then they must them self’s make there found of knowledge, which will retain if they carefully use those items.
My tree is a tree, one universal beautiful [...]
Bora Cosic: My tree is a tree, one universal beautiful object in its braveness and durableness. Unfortunately I don’t distinguish a lot of tree kinds, so I vote for the tree in general, poetic and cosmic sense. And I am not willing to talk about my proportions.
It is very clear from its name how the [...]
Bora Cosic: It is very clear from its name how the "consumer culture" should be understood. It is not about how we consume, like if we spend beans, closes or furniture, it is that we our self’s are consumed. In this cheep manipulation we are also goods, material of modest value. There is only small amount of spiritual in this conjecture which is negative for spiritual horizon of human population and on the general level of there conciseness. Once again everything depends on the individual conciseness and the resistance towards trivial, untrue and misery.
There are only few augurs among of us; [...]
Bora Cosic: There are only few augurs among of us; however we might not even need them, the less of them the better. Each individual his/her self should labor to gain this universal view of the environment surrounding us. However this would mean going out of the own backyard in every sense and destroying narrow and egoistic view of the world which Serbian poet and philosopher Radomir Kostantinovic called "Philosophy of the hem".
There in that can of pleasure product called [...]
Bora Cosic: There in that can of pleasure product called coca cola, which is for me non tasty and similar to soap, purest matter of some water spring was extracted almost for free. Despite that, that spring placed on some furthest and smallest place on the earth has much bigger value, which was devalued in mastodon can of trash.
From Africa, from Africans we can learn [...]
Bora Cosic: From Africa, from Africans we can learn modesty, courage, poorness which in our own European superciliously we miss very much.
Only by preservation of local valuables we [...]
Bora Cosic: Only by preservation of local valuables we can work on general global culture. However similarly only by adoption of general advantages of the world and there global meaning we can gain a chance to fortify that grain, even if smallest grain, of own cultural circle.
There is no sense in making pressure on [...]
Bora Cosic: There is no sense in making pressure on someone, we know how blunt school systems decrease development of there students. This is same for grown ups, nobody can make someone listen expect very shortly. Every pressure ends sooner or later, but those who wish to hear will hear it.
I don’t think about some global secret or [...]
Bora Cosic: I don’t think about some global secret or global conceal. Everyone has something personal, we can take as newer example Günter Grass which kept concealing whole life long. I can talk about concealing of smaller regions, like Serbia. In Serbia for example the guilt of that small country in the bloody wars of last 15 years and the aggression on other nations in that region and the role of Serbian leaders is kept concealed, so the results of that terrible 15 years and everything considering it is concealed. Only when some once son was brought dad from the front his family couldn’t keep silent anymore about innovation of there country in the tragic and unfair war.
This is really a difficult question. It is [...]
Bora Cosic: This is really a difficult question. It is understandable that it comes from the land of classical metaphysics. On the other hand it handles Greece science by which every thesis was confronted with other contradictory thesis from which was also believed to be true. This is how dialectic was found. A big Croatian poet suggested to the ruling party of Tito’s Yugoslavia a formula by which no truth is eternal, there some other truth might be more truthful, sadly that party didn’t hold to that philosophical idea.
I don’t know anything about amount of my [...]
Bora Cosic: I don’t know anything about amount of my knowledge, I believe that in everyone there is a lot of knowledge, even though some people are not aware of it. I believe that knowledge rotates, increases, decrease and goes through the people, it is like “work in progress". However people that write and leave something behind them, leave everything open to those who are curios. So take that what you like the best.
Human being wishes as much as possible in [...]
Bora Cosic: Human being wishes as much as possible in shortest time as possible, which leads to stress, there achievement of everything is impossible. However if we work submissively, without stress and within smaller domain, without lavishing our self’s on all edges which drives us more and more crazy, we might achieve something. We should struggle that appliances which accelerate our information don’t cause more tension. Also we should get rid of useless spotting, and senseless logistics in things that are connotate let us fling ourselves on the essentials.
Without the military strategically [...]
Bora Cosic: Without the military strategically initiative the world would be much richer in financial sense. However experiments of institutes under ingerention of defense are doing something for the general found of human knowledge, I can’t define the positive borders in that huge branch. Market has its own laws about which I’m not well informed; you should ask an economist about it.
World's resources are being managed by [...]
Bora Cosic: World's resources are being managed by mighty companies and firms, instead of being managed by inalienable and independent experts. Which know the best how to manage resources of light water and other natural boons and which don’t care for personal profit or the sum which the corrupts will gain for them self’s in that or this way.
How much is human being an indigenous [...]
Bora Cosic: How much is human being an indigenous phenomena on this world in which he/ she plays the role of intruder? Everything that is indigenous on the planet earth, that is animals, plants, and stones, is on the edge of disappearance. I don’t know how the future citizens of this planet will save it’s authentic.
I don’t know, I don’t posses knowledge in [...]
Bora Cosic: I don’t know, I don’t posses knowledge in this field.
We learned from the ancient philosophers to [...]
Bora Cosic: We learned from the ancient philosophers to look at the truth with suspicion, from democrats on we can’t even be sure of that, not even sure of that what we see, there it could be something totally different. Modern era is full of the facts, sometimes we see what is suggest to bee seen and not that what we see. There with the powers of TV technology and every kind of montage, it is possible to show what have never happened. Maybe the truth coming from those facts is produced truth, just as any other kind of bluff products.
A children psychologist would probably now [...]
Bora Cosic: A children psychologist would probably now count main elements of nourishing a child, however I believe that we should encourage that what every small being has already in it self, creativity, and curiosity even the erotic curiosity. We should sustain it by it's conquer of the world and we shouldn’t bore it to much with traditional regulations. However we shouldn’t lie to it, as stupid as it is to babble, it is bad to make concession to it that we wouldn’t make to grown ups. Every child is a mature being which is only not able to proofing this.
Choices in the art are personal, making a [...]
Bora Cosic: Choices in the art are personal, making a general rule would be inappropriate.Art subjects rise in moments according to many facts. I am not able to make a choice in this matter.
Schopenhauer found out what moves a human as [...]
Bora Cosic: Schopenhauer found out what moves a human as individual in the nature, accordingly we can’t achieve anything without own will. Personally I’m moved by my every day work, by pleasant ambit in which I live, health that’s still serving me, and the women with which I live together.
To change the world we should get rid of [...]
Bora Cosic: To change the world we should get rid of most of the myths, especially those of nowadays. However mythology will always find a way thru, there human beings seek any formula to direct there own existence. This question is maybe leading us back to the beginning. Modern myths are brands, one more reason for me to live without myths, without some general trademark expect of the one which I can produce my self.
I don’t know. However logically, the sum of [...]
Bora Cosic: I don’t know. However logically, the sum of energy that is being spent on the production of something must be smaller then the sum of produced. In other situation it comes to crazy concept, I believe to be invented in socialism. I remember that it was inn saying “we gained deficit”. Maybe in that paradox is the solution, we must not gain deficit by producing anything.
There we are still very traditional and [...]
Bora Cosic: There we are still very traditional and conservative in understanding of: own origin, environment, properties of our tight horizon, own back yard, family, familiar track and /or nation. By that we ignore the wide picture of human kind, of other and different individuals: foreigners, interlopers, separators, and aptrids. From which we should better learn then to reject them or despise them.
There in food production no attention is [...]
Bora Cosic: There in food production no attention is paid to it the food demands, to that what a peach needs, what a tomato needs, what a bunch of chicory needs. In mechanics of food industry everything is more important then the food it self. Its important that a progeny mellows as fast as possible, that it as soon as possible transported to the coolers, that its good for selling as long as possible, and finely that its sold as best as possible. There I ramble thru my villages on Istrian peninsula looking for: a pure drop of olive oil, a glass of caring nurtured wine, a sweetest fog.
I'm atheist, godless, I shouldn’t know [...]
Bora Cosic: I'm atheist, godless, I shouldn’t know anything about this. However this question seems interesting and wired to me, it is almost a metaphor. There it supposes that god as he is, has learned his knowledge from someone else. From whom? How is that other something? Who knows it?
By appointing builders which are urbanists, [...]
Bora Cosic: By appointing builders which are urbanists, planers of own environment, intelligent and generous people. People which will not surround us with stupid and horrifying buildings, which will not dispossess parks and wide streets, which will build pretty, interesting and strange constructions, far away from the monotony of Stalinist dogmas which surrounded us, children of socialism, for decades. However, there were always stupid builders and other wonderful "neimar" (architects), which with there mystery increased happiness in our lives and do not only give a roof over the head.
This young white African presents exactly my [...]
Bora Cosic: This young white African presents exactly my own feelings. I in my Nordic whiteness feel as black in my European Africa. I was colored black there I rejected my own people that are Serbians for there bad action. There not only that the skin color is not important, as we see this can change, but also it’s not important where someone is coming from. The fact that I came to Germany was a coincidence just as it is coincidence that I was born in south of Balkan.
First of all with the project that spouses [...]
Bora Cosic: First of all with the project that spouses some young human being to become a reformer we can’t achieve anything, expect if we don’t wish to make a monster. We can achieve a lot if in the child’s home there are enough of books, the child will then alone make the choices out of them. However being born in the home without a library is not only telling something about those parents but it also makes the process of getting mature harder to the child. Every talented child will find his/her path to the lecture, however those who bring it up can make that path easier.
We already spoke of positive aspects of the [...]
Bora Cosic: We already spoke of positive aspects of the internet somewhere else. However economical usage of the words without repetition is also being thought by the niggardly rigors of cybernetics.
In many places cities spread and thru it [...]
Bora Cosic: In many places cities spread and thru it lost there existents as such, even the whole planet earth is getting lost in that spreading of the city. I hope that cities won’t get to cover whole forests, mountains and seas. However even huge cities can developed by organizing of there small communities. I have my small city in beautiful Fasanenplatz which is a part of bigger city Charlottenburg and this all is only a part of Berlin.
Why Chinese? Maybe all Bulgarian or all [...]
Bora Cosic: Why Chinese? Maybe all Bulgarian or all Albanian wish a car. However if all German wish a car this seems normal to the young man from Frankfurt, if that wishes a person from numerous nation in the world it seems threatening. We are all Chinese; we all have numerous wishes car is just one of the brands of nowadays. Maybe all Chinese wish to get education, to travel, to meat other people, were those also threatening to our young man from Germany?
