The principles in Macedonia can be divided to four groups, I would say. By far, the biggest group are the fearful or paranoid intellectuals. These are intellectuals who are so afraid of the government and its machinery that they chose to live in a so-lapsistic world. They communicate only with a few trusted ones. They don't go out in public. They refuse to comment on public processes, public debate, and public questions. They actually self annihilate, self-destruct. And in this sense, they have very little impact on society and culture and they do not function as intellectuals. Then you have an equally large group of intellectuals in Macedonia, of intellectuals who are self-interested. They leverage their intellect, they leverage whatever knowledge they have, and so on. In order to obtain political positions, in order to make money, in order to get jobs. These intellectuals are affiliated and aligned and identify with usually political parties on the left and on the right. It's not limited to one part of a spectrum. They pursue their self-interest and sacrifice their integrity as intellectuals. Again, in Macedonia, this is a very large group. The vast majority, if not all, public intellectuals in Macedonia, are heavily politicized and are self-interested. They are not real intellectuals in any sense of the work. Then you have a third group, which is what I call the territorial group. These are intellectuals whose education was finished in the 1970s. They speak no foreign languages or no major foreign languages. Their knowledge is not updated and they don't bother to read or to update their knowledge. Knowing that they are inferior intellectually compared to Western intellectuals and compared to younger intellectuals, they are fiercely territorial. They protect the monopoly of knowledge. They exclude young intellectuals. They do not allow new blood, fresh blood to come in. They block new ideas. They destroy new knowledge, fight new knowledge and so on. This territoriality renders the intellectuals seen in Macedonia, very dead, very stagnant, kind of fossil landscape. Lastly and fourthly is a new breed of intellectuals, which has arisen in the last three years, especially under the current Vemero governments in the last few years. And that is what I call the malignantly romantic intellectuals. The intellectuals who are demagogues, the intellectuals who falsify history or use folk myths and folk heroes to foster a false nationalistic pride. The intellectuals who these are the intellectuals who actually created Balkan wars and Balkan tensions in the last century. And there is a new breed, a new malignant breed of such intellectuals coming to being in Macedonia. It is very difficult to get rid of these intellectuals even when their regime changes. Because they poison public opinion, they poison public debate and their impacts are the equivalent of infection or disease. So unfortunately when you look at the intellectuals seen in Macedonia, you see these people. The fearful, the paranoid, the self-interested, those who pursue money and jobs. The territorial, those whose knowledge is completely irrelevant, yet protect their territory against newcomers, new knowledge and new ideas. And the malignantly romantic. In this sense, the intellectuals are Macedonia, betrayed Macedonia and betrayed the people. Because it is the role of intellectual to invigorate the nation, to invigorate the collective, to invigorate society and to integrate society and culture in the global trends. While intellectuals in Macedonia did exactly the opposite, they isolated Macedonia. They made it into a floating island, Alakustowica. It's completely the reverse of what intellectuals should do. Finally, there's a question, why do intellectuals in the Balkans, in general and in Macedonia in particular behave this way? The short and long answer is Marxism. And later on socialism and communism, the manifestations of Marxism. You see, classical Marxism and even modern post-M Marxism redefined the intellectual. Marxists of all varieties and colors believed that intellectuals should be leaders. They invented the concept of mobilized intellectual. They did not believe in the capacity of the Poletariat to lead itself, to generate ideas and to decide on a direction. So what they did, they plucked the intellectuals and they made them part of the Nomenclatura. The intellectual, the manager of big industry, the politician in communist regimes were of equal status. The intellectual was co-opted, subverted, became part of the power machine. Instead of standing outside the machine and subverting it, it perpetrated the machine. It created the machine.