The abjection "Why is Romania different?", a book by historian Lucian Boia, which owes its success among "Romanians" to the claim that "they" do not have a structured national identity (a paradoxical success, isn't it?! - how we end up awarding a book that explicitly calls us idiots? We must be stupid), was mentioned by Ion Cristoiu in his phone intervention on the show of Robert Turcescu, which was discussing the recent events at Antena TV.
Cristoiu said:
"The disastrous state of the Romanian press hasn't been caused by journalists, but rather it is caused by their audience.
We have been dumbed down by the stupid Romanians, we weren't the ones doing the dumbing down.
This is stupid!
They are the ones who dumbed the press down".
One famous historian and one famous journalist united by a shared opinion - "Romanians are stupid" - one which doesn't require much education or intelligence to form.
It is just a rudimentary opinion, a nonsense that can be uttered after gulping down one liter of vodka, but one that shouldn't leave the pub, much less be published in a book, or paraded around on TV, turning it into an abjection.
* A (NOT VERY SUBTLE) CONFUSION
Both Cristoiu's comment, and Boia's book have a subtle (but not too subtle) connection to what happened one year ago with the Referendum for the dismissal of president Băsescu, probably because both of them thought that the big number of citizens who voted against Băsescu will have been manipulated by the deluge of lies and propaganda of the media trust owned by Dan Voiculescu.
This is just a confusion.
Subtle (but not very subtle).
No, the millions of citizens had their own idea that Băsescu needs to be driven away, for serious, real reasons - I will only mention the fact that he had not honored his slogan promise "Live well and prosper!"
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