“It is strong enough to do anything it wants without regard for the law or for form”
(p. 22).
The Person
, likewise,
does not respect morals
because “morals are necessary just to keep Technologists from running into each other, but the Person does not need them.” Persons and Boys are two clearly separate races of people.
The Will to break the Mirror —
the desire to destroy the social system
The difference between Persons and Boys leads us to the second positive concept, to the
Will
Only a Person can possess a Will, while Boys have self-will. Will is formed at precisely that moment when a man becomes aware of Technology (society), when he becomes aware that it is actually the system that is limiting him. He then obtains the
WILL TO BREAK THE MIRROR
(the system).
Perspectives
are actually defined that way (p. 4): “Perspectives are the Will to break the Mirror,” to tear down the system, all the institutions and everything that makes up Technology (society) and thus “bring it to an end.”
Just as the Barbarians destroyed everything they came across, so the Persons destroy everything that exists.
1) The Person abolishes society. “Society is a medium (an intermediary), mediating between the Boys in an idol, because Boys can only come into existence in Society” (p. 6). A Person does not belong to society in any way, he is outside of it because he is only interested in society insofar as its destruction is in question: “The problems of Society are not at all the problems of the Person. REALITY CAN ONLY BE ATTAINED IF SOCIETY IS ABOLISHED,” which is the basic meaning of breaking the Mirror.
2) The Person abolishes humaneness. A Person is not humane, because humaneness is a product of Technology. “Boys are humane” (p. 6), say the authors of these texts and, therefore, they are not offering any kind of compliment because humaneness is a pejorative term for them. “Anthropology is the name of the western evil called humanism. Humanism, self-will, selfishness and evil are synonyms” (p. 26).
3) Persons kill Boys. Since “Boys are the idols of life, they should be broken” (p. 6). Killing Boys (technologists, officials, scientists, artists) is not evil in any way, because Boys are not people: “those people are not alive because they sold their soul to the Grand Inquisitor. The Technologist needs the Barbarian who will kill him and in doing so give him life” (p. 24).
4) The Person abolishes democracy. Democracy is, likewise, a product of the Devil, an invention of the Boys that is used to maintain the system (institutions) and limiting the Person. Democracy is nothing more than “a collection of individual self-wills (self-wills because, clearly, Boys do not have a Will) that render an opposite will” (therefore a false will). “That is a Technology that only the Person can abolish.”
5) The Person abolishes all science, all sources of enlightenment. Synonyms for science, or reason, are: the Devil (7), the scarecrow (7), the Inquisition (9), the Beast (8), Frankenstein (8), and hatred (11). Boys are enlightened (smart — p. 6) while “the Person is uneducated” (p. 17). Every system (a synonym for hatred — p. 22), and so also the scientific one, comes from the Devil (Technology): philosophy, science and art. “They are necessary only to the Technologists and their opposite world” (p. 25). The greatest scientists are, at the same time, also the greatest Technologists (the complete realization of technology is given in the identity of the mind, history and work — Marx, Hegel — p. 24).
6) The Person abolishes all systems (every institution). As long as institutions exist, we cannot exist but we can only be reflected opposite to the institutions of living: opposite to Technology. “Only when I break the Mirror do I stop being a Technologist and become a Person” (p. 23, 25).
7) The Person abolishes the truth and beauty. Beauty and the truth are forms produced in the false world — of Technology (p. 24). “The Truth” is an idol of oppositeness. When the Mirror is broken, no kind of truth is necessary for life because truth is the lie of life” (p. 10).
THE APOCALYPSE — THE MOMENT THE MIRROR IS SHATTERED
The Apocalypse is the crucial moment in the completion of the “project” of the editorial board of Vidici. In their Amon Düül-like dream of melancholy, the perspectives of Vidici are dedicated to the moment when the society of Technologists and Boys will grow into a community of Persons. Just as the Dictionary of Technology as a manifestation takes the form of a Gospel, thus the Apocalypse is graphically presented in the journal as Dürer’s “Four Riders of the Apocalypse.”
THE GREAT INQUISITION — THE SOCIETAL, POLITICAL ORGANIZATION, THE GRAND INQUISITOR — LEADER —
SOCIETAL, POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS
“The Church is the personification of the Grand Inquisitor (so, for example, in the graphic representation of the concept ‘church’ — which is anyway ‘the personification of the institution, the inquisition, the beast’ which is ‘the highest ideal of the Catholic madhouse’ — a picture of the Parliament of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is used). Everything else besides that is repetition.” The Grand Inquisition, the institution, or the system of institutions headed by the leviathans, technologists, beasts, is all headed by the Grand Inquisitor.
THE FURTHER DEVELOPMENT AND PRACTICAL COMPLETION OF THE GOALS ESTABLISHED IN THE DICTIONARY OF TECHNOLOGY ON THE PAGES OF STUDENT MOVE TO THE CONCRETE APPLICATION OF THEIR IDEOLOGY ON THE PAGES OF STUDENT
Thanks to the fact that the editor-in-chief of Student is one of the members of the “hard core” of this group, the group continues its public activity by publishing texts on the second, main page of Student; the texts openly (for those who have found the “key”) call for the abolition of the system established by the Constitution and for a radical showdown with all ideological opponents (the so-called Technologists). This activity develops continuously, from edition to edition becoming more aggressive and open. In order for us to show the character of this activity, we will cite characteristic examples from the introductory comments (p. 2) from edition 18 to edition 26–27 in chronological order.
Number 18: In an “Open Letter” one of the members of the editorial board of Vidici (Slobodan Škerović) develops the theory further that “the problems of Society are not at all the problems of the Person.” He rejects any kind of systematic solution to the problem of financing Student, even rejecting the system itself in the end. As a whole, Škerović as a Person clearly does not need a social-political system (a mirror) or the economic stabilization of the functioning of this system because stabilization: “is necessary to solidify and legalize the existing state of corruption, that is, disintegration, which is a farce created exactly so that nothing will be done.” He attacks Bora Mišeljić, the editor-in-chief of Student because, in asking for financing for the publication of the newspaper, “he is taking part in the general farce of complaining about stabilization.” “But comrade Bora, one enemy remained unconquered then, if I may say so, and I am right, an invisible enemy, and that enemy, the biggest one a man has, seems like failing, like failure in itself, because what is this stabilization of ours other than failure itself?” “Because, Bora, you fell into the trap of becoming a hunter of flies and you move in a curved mirror, in a beautifully imagined picture, a small role in a great performance. So, Bora, SHATTER THAT MIRROR, break the strands of the cobwebs! And by your own will (emphasis S. Škerović) put a stop to that illusion of decisiveness that is played on the flat perspectiveless stage, that is played out on a flat surface,” etc.