The Boiling Pot Called Skopje

#9 The high price paid is already visible on every step. This is a disproportionate, non– individualized city that still functions according to the collective principles of social, status, professional, political and ethnic forms of socialization founded on the mentality or logic of “village meetings”. Of the rural and collective spirit. While the city, contrary to the village, is a complex and harmonized complex of individuals. At least in the European sense of the word.
Much unlike this, Skopje remains and is once again a boiling pot on the Balkans. Full of vivacity, different people, a duality of cultures, national palettes, but also of national imbalance, of movements crosswise and lengthwise, dynamic and open, full of problems and contradictions, at times on the rim of bursting open, at others wonderful and diverse. At times uncertain to the verge of exploding, while at others still transparent and full of ordinary, noble, human dreams.
Skopje is a nostalgic perplexity, diachronic fiction, an authors’ inspiration, a flowing idea, a city of missing presence that simmers with us in the real caldron of the times.