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Only these kids can save us, just as they saved us on the evening of March 15th.
We don’t understand that yet – because we don’t understand them either.
I read somewhere that Generation Z, the one we’re talking about here, differs from all previous generations, not because of social media or the internet (which everyone has adapted to or grown up with), but because of video games.
This is the gaming generation.
When you analyze students, you see that they are playing a game! What does that mean?
First, they have unprecedented discipline—a classic gamer discipline. Second, they’re not fooled by lies because there’s no place for that in video games.
“I was the best at basketball; I was the best at this and that.” Dude, how many points did you score? Did you win somewhere, did you play professionally? This isn’t a movie or a series we grew up with. This is Fiction vs. Non-fiction.
And they all play together.
Look at the map – they do connect regionally. No, they do not remember Yugoslavia, but one player is in Thessaloniki and another in Ljubljana. Balkans!
It’s not just my impression. One of Deloitte’s studies says that a staggering 87% of Gen Zers play video games at least once a week, and an incredible 65% spend at least three hours a day on them. Let’s delve into these numbers further: 90% of Generation Alpha and Generation Z consider themselves gamers!
They spend twice as much time with their friends in the virtual world as they do in the real world.
And this is precisely what we are witnessing right now.
No one can do anything about it—not the BIA (Serbian secret service), not the hooligans, especially not the TV stations they don’t watch or the media they don’t read.
The kids flipped the game. That very evening, last Saturday, they used the code word “Million”: as soon as they heard about the incidents, the young bouncers threw their vests, left the place, and immediately declared the student protest over. Just like quitting this Serbia 2.0 match mid-game!
And those images that resemble liberation are gamers’ images. So are plenums. So are their tactics.
So it’s clear to everyone how this game ends, to everyone except for Vučić, who’s been playing his own games for three months. I wrote that last week, which wasn’t hard to do – since he’s been doing the same for 13 years. Stirring up trouble to reduce the number of people at the rally, a whole arsenal of insults and conspiracies, trying to prop up Serbian nationalism, all so the protesters with massive expectations would fall into apathy…
The problem is that this all regresses. The man who tried to act like Tito in foreign affairs is now obviously starting to imitate him on the domestic front as well. He just needs to abolish parties first.
Belgrade was cut off, like in wartime. Trains and buses were stopped, and even a strike started at the airport.
And all of that with the explanation of a possible terrorist attack?!
But the idea is clear. You radicalize everything, so half of the family stays at home—that’s 50% fewer people.
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But there were 100% more people, even compared to October 5th.
Political theory says that when three percent of the adult population joins the protest, that should signal the falll of the regime. Not because it can start a revolution, which we had on October 5th (President’s closest allies and his godfathers can tell him all about it – they were in front of the Assembly, after all), but because there’s no stopping it.
The final level. And it doesn’t look nor sound like a cannon.
The sheer number of people aside, the more important is the energy – the one that has been sorely missing from the Progressives’ rallies. And you don’t need Šarović to show you that – even though that guy will seriously shake the governing party’s voter base in future elections.
The most important thing in music, business, and politics is to ignite the emotion!
These kids did that a long time ago. All the president has been doing is pouring oil on the fire.
The story about the sound cannon, or whatever it was (this last bit is to protect myself from the prison that the hawks – who don’t like Tito – are calling for), is the scariest one we have heard for a long time.
Yet there is another, even more terrifying sight that we’ve kind of forgotten in the ocean of spins that has been following us since March 15th: those thugs with umbrellas, who were quite obviously not students.
These are no hot-headed individuals, politicians, loyalists, propagandists anymore; these are people from a criminal environment, with whom the state should never, and nowhere, have anything to do.
This is the most critical question for our judiciary, police, and institutions.
That’s their Call of Duty, the oath they took. The kids have long been playing this game. And they are killing it because it’s theirs.
GG!
Translation: ChatGPT, corrections: Author
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