University Professor Says Government Has Created Monstrous Concoction of Elitism, Primitivism

Milo Lompar(BETAPHOTO/Press centar UNS)

Milo Lompar, a professor at the School of Philology, said on July 27 that all levels of government in Serbia were connected by a network of corruption that was eating away at society and attacking any sense of solidarity.

In an interview with BETA, Lompar said that today Serbia was only a democratic country governed by rule of law on paper. Asked how he saw the authorities' results in the past ten years, Lompar stressed that, in a national sense, the government had committed political treason, while as for the media, it had created a homogenous public mind and destroyed all of the levels of civilized communication.

"In a cultural sense, it has created a monstrous concoction of elitism and primitivism. I do not believe its economic pronouncements, like I do not accept its cash gifts.  What makes this government special is a simulacrum: the national facade serves to abandon national interests step-by-step," the professor said.

He said that "the main speaker of the ruling simulacrum" was Serbian president Aleksandar Vucic. "The range of his statements from national to anti-national carries over to all levels of government, because everyone repeats them. This kind of social pathology destroys the public's power of reasoning. With reasoning, there is no possibility for democracy," Lompar stressed.