Goethe would be turning in his grave, and Vuk would be swinging his crutch, if they were told today that the Serb culture is not only undeveloped but also so sick that its only hope lies in a thorough decontamination based on the model of economically developed countries. The same countries that less than a year ago gave the whole our nation, including our culture, the role of a target or at least collateral damage. At the end of this bloody century, the culture that two hundred years ago established creative communication with Europe, and has all this time aimed for openness and new freedom, is threatened by a broom that would sweep away any trace of authentic spiritual expression. Executors must be locals and their task is to be active in the epicenter of the epidemic. These domestic guardians of foreign interests almost daily speak out using the likewise self-proclaimed independent media.
Diagnoses come primarily from military and medical vocabulary and are far from benign.
They refer to the general public life beyond cultural creations. As every imperialism, this cultural imperialism has no ambition to develop creative potentials of its environment, but to abolish or replace them by other potentials. Observed from that vantage point, especially in part of world bloated from the faith in their its omnipotence, the Serb culture is unavoidably seen as inferior, unproductive and irreparably contaminated. In its whole program, in addition to the statements of leaders and activists, the Center for Cultural Decontamination tries to prove Western claims that universal social values are endangered here and that especially in culture dominant models and forms are beyond the pale. It was futile to expect that that small but loud group from Bircanin street raise its voice against devastation of ancient monuments of Serb spirituality in Kosmet or, if they are boasting with their international ties, against the so-called globalization as a sort of a global violence against spirituality.