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I find a lot fallacies in this essay. The author accurately captures the overall picture during the 1990's, yet he is talking about a frontier. He perfectly re

I find a lot fallacies in this essay. The author accurately captures the overall picture during the 1990's, yet he is talking about a frontier. He perfectly realizes that the political power was just consolidated into another form, so we never had a real frontier after the fall of the communist regime. I am little bit younger than him, and grew up after the fall of communist regime, after 34 years of transition into "democracy", and westernization, nothing really changed now the grandkids of the communist regime,are lecturing us about "democracy" again, because their fathers are getting old. There is also this common comparison during this time era about the west(western culture and capitalism), and soviet union(communism), with the slight little nuance which is actually the elephant in the room that communism comes from the west... So the cycle continues. What exactly is this western culture and values that we are constantly talking about, and being sold on, and advertised 24/7? The Brezhnevian capitalist state global citizen, just wants to offer me a slightly less different totalitarian regime, throw us in a violent war because of his boredom with the flux of time, and call it a day. No thank you. The closing of the Bulgarian frontier was during the April Uprising of 1876, which was the last time Bulgarians decided that are going to unite as a nation and will stood for something, their freedom, they will live free under their own sovereign country. You cannot exclude 500 years under Ottoman Empire rule, which rewired our survival instincts, if you are painting a picture of what and how happened next. Like a fellow commenter said I prefer the kaba gaida to continue to echoes in the Rhodope mountains. Despite growing with predominantly western influence after 1990, it is really hard to explain what happens with my body when I hear Valya Balkanska - Izlel ye Delyo Haydutin, a song that is flying in the space with the Voyager probes. The next frontier is currently happening, but this time information travels differently. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Uprising_of_1876 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Uprising_of_1876 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnxUYsf6GuU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnxUYsf6GuU

anovikov 3y ago
Well, in a nutshell, what changed is that the right of the people to own and accumulate property and extract rent from it, is enshrined in the law and enforced. Also, which less important but provides an important safety valve against government misbehaviour, people are free to travel abroad, reside, and work everywhere else in the EU - so a government can't take these freedoms away: bailing from EU means quick end of everything, it's just technically impossible no matter how hard they try, and taken capitalist freedom away means people will vote with their feet. That's a pretty huge difference, no matter which particular group of people is now in power.

anovikov 3y ago

Well, in a nutshell, what changed is that the right of the people to own and accumulate property and extract rent from it, is enshrined in the law and enforced. Also, which less important but provides an important safety valve against government misbehaviour, people are free to travel abroad, reside, and work everywhere else in the EU - so a government can't take these freedoms away: bailing from EU means quick end of everything, it's just technically impossible no matter how hard they try, and taken capitalist freedom away means people will vote with their feet. That's a pretty huge difference, no matter which particular group of people is now in power.