"...this is the content of the Georgian Dream's 'peace' that was written for us on the Christmas tree and was placed on Liberty Square. Freedom is a word whose meaning the government has lost," Nika Gvaramia, founder and CEO of the Mtavari Channel, writes in a statement distributed from Rustavi Prison.
"At the crossroads one hears:
- Straighten your back; Lift your head proudly, lift your neck; Give freedom to your heart, breathe; Keep your nose down; Catch the sunlight, listen to the singing, enjoy the smell of roses!
- I am a slave!
- What shall we do? Fight! break free...
- I am weak...
- Love for freedom will give you the rod of Moses and the rod of David...
- I have no hope.
- It means nothing, hope will be born in battle.
- I fear the worst...
- What could be worse than slavery?
- Death... hunger...
- You are indeed a slave, a true slave... less pitiable, more despicable..."
This is the content of the word "peace" in the Georgian Dream dictionary. It is what is indoctrinated minute by minute, purposefully and systematically, using enormous propaganda and financial resources. This is what the Georgian Dream is offering us - a rewritten history of Georgia. This is what the "Georgian Dream" takes for peace - , that is the highest form of victory of freedom, replaced by primordial instincts - the fear of death and hunger. Peace is the final result of the struggle for freedom peculiar only to thinking people, replaced by the animal instinct of natural selection and survival, equally characterizing the level of all levels of classification - from the simplest organisms to primates (including humans).
And this is the content of that "world" that was written on the Christmas tree and stood as an idol of worship in the main square of the country, which is called the name of liberty. Liberty is a word that has lost its meaning. A word that will soon become not a concept, a powerful word that carries content, but just an ordinary unit of lexical memory.
Exactly, that's it.
This story was written in 1916 by Niko Lortkipanidze. The story is called "The Slave".
I congratulate you on the coming New Year and wish you true peace - a world without conceit, a world of free people," Nika Gvaramia writes.