Why Illyria?
POSTED BY: Delia
UPDATED: Saturday, May 8, 2004 01:47
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INTRODUCTION…
…is unfortunately needed, this time. The thing is composed of three parts, one of which is composed of two parts. The first one made some sense but didn'’t live up to expectations, mainly because *mumbles* I-forgot-what-I-indented-to-write-next *sigh*. The second and third parts are a uniquely sublime display of half-witted-ness and incoherence, let’s just forget about them. The fourth part is about cockroaches. I quite like it. The fifth (or the fourth, depends on how you count it) is a little addenda I felt like adding because “Some Things Were Just Too Much”. It’s mostly pointless, anyway. On the whole, this is the most embarrassing display of pathetic incoherence I have ever produced. Hopefully, it won’t get any worse. I won’t correct it anymore basically ‘cause I lost heart for it, completely. But I wrote the Albanian Etymological Dictionary thing instead.
http://www.geocities.com/protoillyrian
THE SO-CALLED *ESSAY*
“Man is good, people are bad.”
D-chan after a certain Jean Jacques Rousseau
“Man is bad, people are worse.”
Sara, after sneering at D-chan
When thinking about the reasons of the current situation in Kosovo – or rather what is left of it- it is most vital to always bear in mind that there are some cruel streaks in human nature that are not due to post-Czarnobyl mutations and timely interventions of the powers-that-be .
An average man, who, we should not forget, is a species of animal, is a flexible creature who, if encouraged properly, can easily make habit of something, genocide included. An average man is, too, a simple, yet self-contented creature, who’d rather blame his own, to put it mildly, lack of success on Jeanne D’Arc, King Henry VII or Quetzalcoatl, the god, rather than himself. A human being can thereupon easily be manipulated into venting out his frustrations on said Jeanne D’Arc, King Henry VII or Quetzalcoatl, the god (though as to the third one, chances of executing one’s revenge are rather slim); a manipulation that does not necessitate a psychotic loon to be acted out, but can be as well accomplished by lazy bureaucrats who believe it is easier to take full advantage of the divide et impera rule than to deal with the problems that would certainly arise were the aforementioned bureaucrats to change their strategy.
Now, having said all those things, we know for sure that the Serbs who started the conflict are not inhuman, blood-sucking abominations of nature, sadly, they’re nothing but the victims of several centuries of dedicated brainwashing and grudges that I believe are older than Methuselah, or at least his peer. As to why the Serbs are the victimizers, not vice versa, there’s no doubt it is because they easily outnumber the Albanians. If the situation had been different, if it had been the Albanians who had been in “overabundance” I doubt that they would have done anything to preserve the peace and live in harmony with the Serbian minority. The fact that Albanians didn’t have a blathering loon for a president at their side, together with his Hello-I’m-Dr-Mengele-Nice-To-Make-Your-Acquaintance wife and his psycho son wouldn’t have been of much help, I believe. Theoretically, Albanians should actually be grateful that coincidence made them victims and that they didn’t do all the dire things they could have done – which they didn’t only because they weren’t given the opportunity.
When wars break out and conflicts escalate this is never because of some extra-terrestrial meddling in human DNA or one of the sides having secretly crossbred with basilisks throughout the centuries, no matter how the opposite side would want to believe it, this is mainly because the circumstances and coincidences are the way they are. Between the two world wars there was no country in Europe without its own fascist party, yet only few of them succeeded – not because people in certain countries were more intelligent and could tell the risks and evils of fascism, but because in certain countries people were far too happy with their current situation to be willing to enda
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Originally posted by Illyrianka:
INTRODUCTION…
…is unfortunately needed, this time. The thing is composed of three parts, one of which is composed of two parts.
Err...umm...what the heck does this essay have to do with Firefly, Angel, or the Jossverse?
I'm just sayin'.
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Originally posted by Shiny:
Err...umm...what the heck does this essay have to do with Firefly, Angel, or the Jossverse?
Shiny,
I'm so glad I wasn't the only person wondering that. I mean, I know the word Illyria refers to a lot of things, but I was kind of wondering about a semi-hidden Shakespeare refernce, not the history of the Balkans. Although I guess there could be a reference there . . . .
Delia
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