For many years we have observed the shameful sale of Polish national interests by subsequent political formations, gaining power legally, on the way of more or little honest universal elections.
In fact, the electorate, or alleged sovereign, has no influence on the policies pursued by the ruling, especially based on far-reaching sacrifices and obligations towards abroad entities – powers and large corporations. Starting with the "everlasting" dependence on the United States, as evidenced by further arms contracts on specified a scale that respective next generations would not be able to repay the horrendous costs of loans, and ending with an highly asymmetrical and unpredictable Polish-Ukrainian agreement on safety cooperation signed on 8 July 2024 in Warsaw.
There are legitimate questions why specified crucial issues concerning the biggest budget commitments in past are not subject to parliamentary debate. Many experts emphasize that the financial commitments of the Republic, according to the Constitution, require not only public debate but besides statutory ratification. Why is the incumbent Prime Minister, who so far denies presidential ambition, so much disregard for Polish law? Why are all parties silent on the command, let alone intellectual environments? It seems that, in the name of illusions of defeating Russia, the Polish state, its legal, political and economical standards, must be ruined in order to delight the Atlantic hegemon.
Reflecting on the broader context of this phenomenon, it is worth to halt at the notion of fatherophobia (gr. fear of home, family), known in literature since 1808, in romanticist poesy Robert Southey, determining the longing for an abandoned household home. In modern sense, this word was introduced into intellectual circulation by British philosopher Roger Scruton. It means rejecting native culture (from reserve and aversion to hatred and combat) and apologetizing another value systems. This concept is frequently utilized in public rhetoric by Jarosław Kaczyński, attributing opposition, parts of the judges, and even the movie “Green Border” by Agnieszka Holland to spreading hatred towards her homeland.
Paternity rhetoric...
However, it serves to distract attention from the real illness that plagues Polish political life. It's a proverbial "turn-over." After all, it is not possible to hide that each side of the disputed Polish political scene, contrary to the pompous patriotic rhetoric, uncritically affirms the planet views, cosmopolitan attitudes, leftist and neoliberal ideas, even nihilistic. And he treats his “home” as a “experiential field”, a place for experimenting and implementing the most bizarre ideas, contrary to the art of politics and care for “common good”.
After all, it is up to the rulers to find whether citizens feel comfortable and well at home, in their home, metaphorically understood as a home country and a household country. It is not known from now on that many people in Poland, as evidenced by multimillion-dollar emigration, experience alienity and homelessness. So why speaking of father phobia, Jarosław Kaczyński does not show the actual causes of specified a harmful phenomenon? Young people frequently leave Poland due to fear and frustration, caused by the constant political quarrel, oppression of the state, as well as foolish propaganda for the benefit of the unnecessary “death for homeland”.
Another frustrating origin is the process of uncontrolled immigration. During the regulation of law and justice, millions of visitors were allowed to enter Poland, qualified as refugees before the war, but many of them turned out to be average displaced persons, economical migrants, not only from non-conflict areas in Ukraine, but even from exotic countries specified as India and Bangladesh. To average people, this phenomenon of statistic does not diminish, as reflection taking part in various places clearly speaks to the disadvantage of the "anti-immigrant" slogans of the PiS, which go distant with reality. Interestingly, no of the rulers want to see negative sentiments increasing on this occasion, especially among the large city population, amazed by the immense number of uninvited and not always desirable guests.
Instead of supporting the native sport, invest in young generations of compatriots, various authoritative types of “under a dark star” dreamt of specified an immigration strategy that would make the Polish Olympic squad a “colored mosaic” in the name of more medals. It is akin with another areas of life. alternatively of investing in Polish science, it is better to advance the employment and reward achievements of foreigners, even of mediocre quality, as the slogan "internationalisation" fits perfectly with the cosmopolitan programs of society. In this anti-Polish amok, paradoxically, the slogan of "internationalism", erstwhile referred to the "solidarity of the proletariat", and now exposing the "proletarianization of states and nations", in the name of obedient and faithful ideologies towards the "decade" West.
Such attitudes show a deep crisis of national identity, both at the level of individuals and of large social communities. National interests whose diagnosis and implementation should mention to the protection of the existential values of Polish society (integrity, identity, certainty, adaptability, efficiency, innovation, improvement and others) are subject to the interests of number socio-cultural groups with external support from Western hegemonic culture.
Visegrad Group gravers
Those who see reality through the glasses of Atlanticism ignore neighbouring and regional identity, specified as the achievements of the Central European Visegrad Group or the intellectual belonging to the Slavic community. Referring to specified values does not only irritate the authorities and anger of anti-Polish mediocracy, but closes any discussion about alternate solutions to various social problems.
All of this is subject to the alleged political correctness, which in caricature deforms historically educated narratives (descriptions, stories, mythologies) and manipulates social awareness, relating to friends and enemies, neighbourly associations and exotic alliances. According to centuries-old tradition, any deviation from an accepted social standard should be treated as a harmful "jump", worthy of criticism and even condemnation. Meanwhile, various quirks in the name of ill-conceived freedom (releases from all restrictions) become not only allowed, but are imposed on the majority. The authority does not teach citizens to set boundaries in order to meet different needs and interests, due to the fact that it itself violates the rules of the established order, acts hypocritically and cynically to keep its state of possession.
The liberal and leftist environments, which are the addressees of the paternity charges on the part of the Law and Justice Party, are primarily suffering from the complex of under-westernity and do much for ‘sabotaging Polishness’. They are blamed for insufficient support for “Europeanisation” for those divisions of society which are attached to the traditions and values associated with national defence. Patriotism understood as protecting what is particular, or even selfish, in order to preserve the common good in its country, is treated as an outcast. The top is to be taken by universalist tendencies, which will match Poles to all those who have already lost rationality of their own civilization choices and are guided by the good of any imaginary "community of humanity". In fact, it is only an image tool of oligarchy.
Europe (or alternatively the European Union) sees it as an perfect complement to an extraordinary, even final form of civilization. However, they forget that there must be area for diversity and equality. It is the national states with their rich cultural wealth that are about the wealth of a "common home". Therefore, erstwhile acting for the universal European community, it must not quit its cultural identity and political sovereignty. There is no social approval to become one more time in passive past subject to the right of universalist, 1 could say imperial, based on the "common tyranny" of power.
When exposing the fatherophobic environments, i.e. giving up defending their own national specificities, they should be faced with the constant self-absorbed collective work for anti-Semitism and Jedwabne, for homophobia, populism, nationalism, misogynism or patriarchism. Excessive self-criticism and alleged pedagogy of shame mean negative programming of society and consequence in counterproductive effects. First of all, they suppress opposition to various idioms, aid to perpetuate themselves in the social consciousness of the never-digested, but hard and causing ever-new complexes. These include the tabooing of Poles' relations with Jews or cowardly silence of Israeli "moral blackmail" regarding the criminal evaluation of the country's policy towards Palestinians. The relativisation of Ukrainian crimes in Poles during and after planet War II is simply a disgraceful proof of the operation of the camp of power and opposition in the spirit of betrayal of the nation, insulting the memory of victims and the sensitivity of descendants.
Language Madness
In fresh years, language has become 1 of the first and most crucial targets of attacking the nation's existential value. It is in it that the means of reproduction and preservation of anachronic order, exclusion and discrimination are considered. Neither in the regulation of the United Right nor in the time of the "three understandings" under the leadership of the "three musketeers" can there be any limitation or restraint in attacking the tarnished language forms, the introduction of fresh bizarre concepts, especially within sexuality and gender, the censorship of the meanings of words and phraseological relationships, and the shame and public stigma of the unruly.
The community of linguists and linguists (except prof. Jerzy Bralczyk!) does not see the threat of dismantling the cultural tissue of the Polish language, but not of declinations or conjugations themselves. The flood of feminatives leads to absurdity, due to the fact that it is not known what language normatives truly look like in relation to formal state documentation, or even the postgraduate work of students, which should be written in correct Polish. Is Beata Szydło is inactive a organization baron in Małopolska or already a baron baron or a baron baron? Where did the Council of Polish Language go, which should primarily be in charge of guarding the culture of the national language and not helping to destruct it?
Why does the Polish state let various unusual individuals to impose harmful cultural patterns that destruct the achievements of family, national or spiritual communities? Who can prove, in the context of deep Western crises, that ultraliberal, multicultural and detached from their roots and past society will be happier and safer than ever? Why are the ruling right-wing and left-wing, conservative and liberalists incapable to propose specified a fair debate so that its essence is the definition of modern “polskość” and the defence of its key components against self-appointed “propagators of good news”, “combiators of abroad interests”, and usually “traitors” and “warrants” who defend their own values everywhere, “where they are good”?
Conformism and Opportunism...
intellectual circles foster cultural degradation to the level of massage, primitiveization and uniformization. Academic circles become the avant-garde of the crude reproduction of "Western values", which, alternatively of fostering progress, leads to regression and secondaryism in many areas. It is desirable to silence and erase its own technological achievements for the apology of American and even Ukrainian authors (sic!).
There are besides those who, one more time in history, go to “internal immigration”. Do they, too, deserve to be the traitors of national affairs? Marazm and laziness intellectual, moral indifference, sleeper ideological and alleged tumivism make this part of society a formless mass, susceptible to various manipulations. To specified people, it truly is all the same, in all body formation they find their safe niches, and they treat escapes from matters crucial to the nation and the state in a selfish and utilitarian way. National Individuals Roman Dmowski He called half-Poles. From today's perspective, however, is it their escape and opposition to the driven marketplace of a culture of homogeneity and politically forced conformism?
In the context of “falling down” ruling positions and opposition to fatherophobia in Poland, there are small opportunities to reconstruct any realistic doctrine that would prevent the progressive national self-alienation, self-destruction and self-slavery. Certainly, many processes of cultural degradation and the emergence of mass consumerism cannot be stopped, unless only through the "great crisis", i.e. the global collapse of existing institutions and social processes. possibly for these reasons, many haunted “missionaries” and supporters of transnational solutions dream of a “great war of worlds”, after which those who last will be able to build a fresh order based on the complete uniformization of the world?
All of this is not optimistic. All the more so, that in the fervor of political conflict and ongoing settlements of erstwhile power nothing is “black and white”. The deficit of political thought and the deficiency of historiosophical overestimation lead to the constant traumatization of Polish political consciousness (cf. Michał Bilewicz, “Traumaland. Poles in the shadow of the past”, Krakow 2024), which paradoxically exacerbates the conflict against the background of “national defect”.
In a globalized and interdependent world, it is hard to see this phenomenon in absolute or Sienkiewicz categories. Neither Janusz Radziwiłłor even Ryszard Kukliński they do not talk unequivocally to the national imagination, as heroes or people worthy of condemnation. In an age of blurred linguistic meanings, axiological relativism and moral pluralism, and widespread transnationality and multiculturalism, national betrayal can so be allowed in the name of “higher values” (Jack Breczko).
Following the lead Witold Gombrowicz, individuals conscious of their needs have the right to rebel against the national community and even betray it. The alleged Polish form, or complicated historical heritage, is the origin of various cognitive deviations, insane missions and pathological visions of oneself against the background of others. Thus, turning distant from “your own home” can be justified by the request to revise anachronistic customs, to shed “eyepieces” deforming a appropriate view of reality. But is the paternity in Poland specified a conscious choice of part of society, or just a primitive, free imitation, imitation of the rich West due to its peripherality and inferiority complexes?
National apostasy...
often occurs for purely commercial and utilitarian reasons. If you can place yourself and your household at a advanced level of comfort and consumption at the price of a career or a material apanase, why not do so, masking yourself under the name of a “real patriot”? Why so fewer researchers of modern past rise the subject of the material pedigree of post-solidarity formation and its extraordinary loyalty to its patrons and powerfuls? erstwhile will this reasonably apparent fact yet scope average people, that the gigantic sale of national assets was a large swindle (under the name of privatization and reprivatization), the beneficiaries of which became "pomagdalenic" political agreements, by embezzlement of national assets and the acquisition of intrepid sons?
In Poland, it spreads loud slogans and labels, without in-depth analysis of phenomena and a fair look at itself. Indeed, the 2 sides of the political dispute consist of 1 “camp of national betrayal”. Each of them demonstrates and bids in zealous loyalty to his mightmen, blindly striving like impertinent butlers for the kindness and favour of his almighty masters (Bronisław Łagowski). All of this is watered by dubious morality, based on “power higher”. It is an arbitrary and intimidating argument about the strategy to supply Poland and Poles with safety with the participation of the strongest Western powers, no substance what the price. In addition, “in the service of a good cause”, which is to put an end to “Barbarous” Russia. So in the proceedings of conservative, liberal and leftist elites, we have the same justification for a "good purpose" as well as for "any acceptable means". "Devil" is makiawelism!
Prof. Stanisław Bielen
Think Poland, No. 35-36 (25.08-1.09.2024)
