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Yury Borisov
Where is our mistake?
Thousands, if not tens of thousands of round tables have been organized in Bulgaria in the last 14 years.
Whether they took place in 1990 or 2004, they looked absolutely alike because of three facts.
First, they always conclude that the situation is serious, difficult, or truly desperate. Secondly, they call for the development of a strategy for the development of a certain sphere. Third, nothing of what they propose ever happens in real life.
The link between expert, expert-political, or simply well-meaning professional thought and managerial behaviour is never established and this has turned into a sustainable phenomenon. There is only half a step separating the 'sustainable' from the essential and the natural.
Where is our mistake?
Is it that the expert side gives advice that is impossible to fulfil? It is may be because it dwells in theoretical towers which are well-arranged, pedantically organized, but are somewhat out of touch with reality. Or it may be that new things provoke its narrow-mindedness and it fails to notice those 'small' factors which can cause much graver things to happen if left unattended.
Is the pragmatic political side unable to fulfil the life-saving advice? Perhaps, because this is not about saving those figures who are part of it. Perhaps this is so also because there is no rational link in this country to connect the final results of political behaviour and the assessment this behaviour gets. Perhaps this is so also because there is no Bulgarian politician who is so deeply concerned about the future that his idealism makes up for the absence of public oversight.
Despite the gloomy conclusion and the unanswered questions, some of which appear to be somewhat rhetorical, the expert-political effort has to strengthen, to become more intensive, and to seek and develop a new self-confidence. What if not professional talking would initiate the creation of those values, the lack of which has left us lagging behind all others? What if not the professional clash of positions would prove that one and the same politician, at one and the same time, and with one and the same resources had alternative answers, sometimes positioned along the entire distance between failure and triumph?
If this talking and this clash exist in a full form, we would be left with just steps to make in order to start opening up the tunnel we are in. First, the serious expert side should go decisively into the political one and push into the sidelines the primitive ideological show. Secondly, voters should punish and encourage politicians in accordance with the successes they have scored while making their first step.
Some 10 years ago, one of the topics of the Social Commission at the Parliament of Bavaria sounded like this: 'What kind of toys are to be recommended to manufacturers and importers to reduce the probability that those who are attending nursery schools today would not become drug addicts 10 years from now? Did they mean 10 years?!?
These 10 years have flied by and today's teenagers are facing a problem which some expert probably succeeded to include in some boring political agenda in the past. Or perhaps in Germany politics means something different.
Yury Borisov
Editor-in-Chief of 'Novo Vreme'
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