Clear up things through 1) Using familiar tools to understand Kosovo 2) Be commited, in your efforts, to harmony between your personal Serbs and personal Albanians 3) Utilize to Internet links on the Balkan battle
4) And refer to an Identitarian path traveled from 2021
1) SOME OF THE "KOSOVO WAR FOR DUMMIES" FOR THE CONFUSED TO UNDERSTAND
Identitarianism is renowned for its divergent yet harmonious halves: self + others. Yet it is felt for those who stumble upon the first part and get confused.
Below, the notes add --background-- to the Kosovo idea. Just in case your eyes roll over “consumer goods are the Serbs” and “the stimuli that comes in contact with your senses”.
Point one
The “Kosovo” war as an outlet for your stress ^is no different^ than acting out fantasies through intense movies, video games, and music.
Point two
+ Memes! These Internet phenomena take existing image and adds a new message to it; result is the image has been appropriated for humorous or dramatic effect. So in applying memes to the “Kosovo” idea, substitute similarly personal struggles, and commandeer the 1998-99 historical conflict to your own private life.
In the same fashion of the current girlfriend tagged with “my 13 other videos I haven’t start”, at the top ... take the very thought of the Serbs of Kosovo. Like a news photo.
Ask yourself “what are the things I like?” from the catechism … and write your answer over that image in your head of the Balkan group. That’s the spirit!
Everything goes according to plan? Then an original photo is now seized to your own meme; rather than for the effect of amusement, but for *stress relief*, instead.
Point three
It’s an adaptation. Your Kosovo is an adaptation of 1999’s Kosovo, ^in that same way^ the Oscar-winning movie “West Side Story” updates Shakespeare’s “Romeo & Juliet”.
Or switch the musical for the new “Gnumio and Juliet” animated flick.
Point four
Why Kosovo and not other war-like, authoritarian places? In Afghanistan and Iraq, entire Ameurocan counterinsurgency units have came and gone.
Other “minority rule” areas never pursued the option of suppressing the guerrillas so hard. Example being, the Israeli forces in the West Bank.
> Also in "dominant minority" states, the minority is too large (the Sunnis in Saddam-era Iraq).
It's harder to achieve that state of nihilism, if you empower oh-so-many things in life!
Hope this holds up, so far.
2) ULTIMATELY, IN THIS IDENTITARIAN GAME, YOU HAVE TO WIN THE HEARTS AND MINDS OF ALBANIANS
+ ...But meaning has its costs.
As I wrote on "a self to believe in", have AN IDEA, A VISION for conflicting parts in your personality to be eventually be content with.
Such a live + let live outcome can apply to Serbs + Albanians, but also to DCS; say, Dreamers + MAGAers.
+ The modernity we cope with… rose in the Balkan crisis. One that had real-life Albanian tragedies.
As economics tensed demographics--Kosovar Serbs went north for jobs.
And Albanian birthrates up? They outnumber others.
Like global selfishness up... an uptick in complex problems outnumbering us. Plus EACH PERSON has their own Battle of Kosovo moment in their past lives.
A personal equivalent of 1389, a personal episode influencing one today!
+ Jun 13, 2020: It was 22 years ago where, in my reaction to growing up DCS, my study of political/religious regimes went underway.
Today, Kosovo 1999 is the historical example to cognitively govern myself.
But I use that war to manage hardships, not support Serbian nationalism in real life!
I was born to Polish immigrants, so I have nothing political/personal with today's Kosovo.
So it’s free to be independent, if not a province.
And it was me at age 13 who made this discovery of belief … maybe because my mental puzzle is more monolithic and straightforward?
A melting pot DCSer puzzle may have quite a lot of *specialized* pieces, however. For them, using that ideology part may disrupt too many other parts. Disrupt their kaleidoscope of things liked on social media.
So being open to overlooked ideas is gratitude!
3) GET A BETTER PICTURE, THROUGH THESE ONLINE LINKS ON THE 1999 CONFLICT
15 min news report of the 1998 situation of police vs. guerrillas on the ground, none yet in the sky: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjlbJDZaANQ&t=38s
The eyes have it: See the KLA ((0:55 to 1:10 of the video)) + NATO experience in the Kosovo War: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwP3P86u6e
Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway FULL GAME Gameplay Walkthrough
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wvopp5jVBcU&t=3193s
+ Actual screens of a third person shooter scattered throughout. 3PS is pertinent as the visual for this video games you’re playing … is lent from actual news photographers and video cameras that took place in the Balkans war.
+ In these two videos, dismiss the idea of taking sides. These reenactments of the Kosovo War here are about cinema, not ethnically based politics. Better study these videos to help you envision the “video game in your head.”
Racak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwFEEfj6xJ4&t=4256s
Highlights:
4:38 Casual ambush by the KLA
33:15 Exchanging of fire in a village street
1:10:05 Pursuing of guerrillas in the woods
Kosare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULb6rrN0wCs&t=5482s
Noted points:
8:20 More concealed rebel ambush
1:28:20 Backing by tank firepower
1:40:40 Repelling the other side’s advances
Example of a combat in Kosovo: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Prekaz
Want more in-depth? Here's the Kosovo region, it's history + it's people: washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/balkans/overview/kosovo.htm
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/world/europe/kosovo-airstrike-articles.3.html
4) Refresh to 2021
2021
It's the Stupid Economy: The Market Gets a Transformative Hold on its Subjects
New eras bring on new challenges in democratic capitalist society (DCS). And as the world’s lone superpower, the United States faces tests especially made complex for the most advanced of nations. Subsequently, its people at differing levels of the social hierarchy are feeling the brunt of these challenges. This commentary looks at workers at the bottom of the pyramid get caught in labor discontent, in part resulting in today’s “Great Resignation” phenonium. Moreover, the leadership at the apex of the power structure must wrestle how its peace won abroad in the Twentieth “American Century” is reaping upstarts spurred by newly assertive peoples at home.
White collar disengagement
Thanks to an industrialized world that is both affected by and craving change, the services sector of the economy has rose to outpace its primary and secondary counterparts, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But this New Economy can play it less fairly than its raw materials and manufacturing cousins. The industries of the working class, that field saddled today with the connotations of the Rust Belt, actually is just in terms of assessing concrete progress. To show for it, consider a good from a factory. It is tangible; faults in physical labor are obvious to all those involved. Examples include tires formulated to blowout en mass, or an e coli outbreak resulting from a food processing plant.
Yet for a service, it is something that’s more having its sole arbiter in a person’s head. With these tertiary jobs, it’s vaguer. Given that the services industry is based on knowledge, it thus founded on notions that exist in the pliable mind. This entails the customer or the client making decisions tied to a mood in real time. Case in point is a judge who comes to the courtroom haunted by a fight last night he had with his wife; in this context, the jurist, in forming his own opinion, has such other, psychologically malleable factors from even outside his profession.
It may be not so unironic that the rise of the tertiary industry is also the rise of the post-truth world. Is there a leader to intervene in such a “fake news” realm? Perhaps such a respected authority is harder to be recognized. That may be reflected by leaderless AI taking charge: DCS has created an economy so complex to be beyond the fathoming of individual people to decide on. Would such robots be needed in the 1700s? No use for driverless cars; AI have run out of tasks to do beyond a cotton gin. Yet today’s “tasks” obviously can’t be all dismissed. As it is a given for professionals to provide food, administer health care, build homes—plus someone has empower them with the energy and the technology to all this. Yet what preceded this wage-earner world had a upside. In closing the door on the forager era, civilization substituted the code of wildlife predators for government-enforced laws and society-induced norms. These were necessary to make humans more physically safe, but at a cost of leaving them more psychologically submissive?
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So as modernity grows, the exchange of goods and services will leave behind intimate relationships and descend more towards impersonal commerce. The flip side of the economy strengthening—and the Delta variant stage of the coronavirus has not overturned forecasts of an early 2020s recovery--is that the work experience become more bureaucratic; more jobs created by politicians is more TPS reports for the rank-and-file to encounter. Will this help alleviate the fact, that according to a Gallup poll, that 70% of American employees are disengaged at their job? And this sentiment has just been manifesting in what has been coined as the “Great Resignation”: workers who, while being flexibly home during the COVID-19 pandemic, developed new expectations that challenged existing norms upon returning to the workplace in 2021. Raw statistics indicated that a record 4 million people quit their jobs in April alone, according to the Labor Department. The modern economy, now unrivaled by a Soviet-style model in the 21st century, extends its reach into domestic life; work-life balance becomes more of a trend rather than an obscurity.
This outcome may not have been economically intended all along. For what kid says, “I’m going to work in finance when I grow up?” Be employed in HR? Aspire to make a living as a hedge fund manager? Entering these careers wouldn’t come about sheerly by free will. Instead of freedom as the founding principle in DCS, necessity has the become the hallmark. It’s these combined needs of a self-asserted citizenry that can prevent one person—the individual that DCS is supposed to champion--from truly entering employment out of voluntary interest. Professional volition cannot be so much out of one’s own accord; the diversions like entertainment, exercise, and hobbies that workers escape into can so contrasting from the workplace reality. Thus, there is a polarization: a professional can be either trapped into a state of labor or indulge in a realm of recreation. For many, chances for a world in which both of those sphere overlap is bleak.
More entrenched as grim is poverty. Unlike bad retail bosses, it is not just a new problem--for all of history, virtually all of humanity has been poor. It's just the advent of modernity that industrialization could actually expunge destitution. Some offer a cause to these prosperity hopes coming short: a conspiracy of the rich preventing their wealth to be redistributed to the less fortunate. Karl Marx had this type of outlook, one yet that may be archaic in the light of millions of Chinese and Indians climbing out poverty through market capitalism than centralized socialism. Yet the division of labor that Marx took on may have a longer shelf life in neoliberal era. A vision where one could "hunt in the morning ... rear cattle in the evening ... criticize after dinner ...without becoming hunter, shepherd, or critic” is on where work done to gain respect and attention transcends the need to financially support oneself. (Source: “The German Ideology”) In this sense, what’s done voluntary and not money-motivated can prevail over being coerced by greed. While this dream has not come to past, the growth problems from democratic capitalism do nothing but just press on for the future.
The 2020s: At this historical point in time
So something has been irking for those on certain level of the social pyramid. At least across the board, they agree in saying collective good riddance to 2020. But with the 2020s as a decade--as a new millennium put into reality—things are just getting started. Striving throughout the tumultuous year brought out the broad call for life, liberty, and happiness ... for the fellow man under the yoke of COVID-19. Yet the future is more in narrow agents of socialization—family members, close friends, choice of media—than in a universal denominator such as “all men are created equal”. Even despite that, there’s little end to the trend that as DCS breaks down into niches and identity groups—own algorithmic Amazon product suggestions and podcasts—people will fall back on the old United States idea for inspiration. What else can everyone agree on, other than this 220+ year old entity?
That whole time period was not spared of change. Among ramifications came in World War II: peace may have been won abroad. But was it lost at home? To speak about the “peace” in American history prior to the war, going back all the way to colonial days, is to speak about white male Christians as a leadership elite. Yet to ensure victory against Germany and Japan—and consolidate it versus Russia—this clique had to bring in once-excluded groups for help. Comparing today to the 1930s, groups like African-Americans, women, same-sex couples, Hispanic immigrants were more marginalized, and on the outside looking in. Now they were partners to assist in running the economic war machine. Indeed, conflicts were won. From 1945 to 1989, the United States rose to superpower status.
The United States’ beacon of DCS externally triumphed on the global stage—and also served as a neoliberal demonstration for the rest of the world’s peoples to ride coattails on. Yet internally, American society may have not assimilated all of its subjects for the commonweal’s serenity. Instead, civilian warfare, passing on from one post-World War II generation to the next: the crisis involving Rosa Parks moving to the uproar of Breonna Taylor. Following the battle of Roe vs. Wade came just the recent standoff over Texas’ six-week abortion policy. This is the new reality for the United States political fabric: was there a time when this wasn’t the case? It is through the very origins of America’s democratic founding of John Locke’s tabula rasa, that people born with clean slates; that people equally across the board are malleable into being better. Yet, for DCS today, is there a malleable end to all this discord?
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One constant, though, is a struggle for global pre-eminence. The last two superpowers in history were different--the Soviet Union is no more. And the United States won out. But both share the fact that they are founded on ideas--which masks a degree of reality. In theory, the USSR was a workers' state. Yet in practice, ethnic Russians wielded chief power. The United States was founded on ideals of freedom and opportunity. In the course of its recorded history, though, who benefited from those concepts the most? White Christian males. The figures align: Russians, in contemporary press reports, made of 52% of the USSR in 1979. Correspondingly, whites composed 60% of the USA’s population in 2020. How this “white privilege” is managed for societal good determines in part how that superpower comparison continues.
DCS, give or take, is relied on by the peoples of the new millennium. Not totalitarianism: Xi is not Mao and Putin is not Stalin. And credit to DCS, Kant's democratic peace theory has upheld its job. But a given threat to harmony today--for both free and authoritarian societies--is, for a particular action, the stakes in play. As prosperity rises for a people of the globe so do expectations. And added innovation to a socioeconomic system is at the same time added sophistication. What if, for a good or service, one small part was to risk being flown off? If that complex whole gets jeopardized, leaving modern unpredictability accompanying modern progress. Such was the reality posited in Time magazine, discussing in July 1987 of “the Cold War fading away”: if fighting shooting wars move to fighting over “ideas, values, and potency of economic systems”, what evolves next then? Is the End of History the beginning of AI? As humans stuck with disregarded ideas, pressured expectations from so much being societally wagered on, just resort to desperation.
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