The Biblical Salt

This new documentary film only theatre opened in Zagreb last year. Or was it two years ago? But, anyway, this movie on neurosurgery I saw has one of the best beginnings ever. The topic gruesome, on lack of care in Ukraine, which results in diseases practically unknown of in the West these days - the opening lines are spoken by a British doctor who all but steals second-hand equipment to bring it over:
- It is hard to know when to go ahead, when to proceed, and when to do nothing..

He was, of course, talking about the need for operations but the same could be successfully applied literally everywhere. I would even say this is the mental skill most deficient in common humanity.

And there you have it. Today's Washington newspaper predicts violence in Croatia. The ruling party, in a completely autistic and imbecile fashion, declares the writer a hater of Croatia.

But it is completely evident now: they won't budge. Perhaps they will be budged off.