The question ‘Where have you been?’, meaning the past twenty years, and the question ‘Where were you?’, meaning the same past twenty years, seem to have different literal and historical meaning to the different people in Bulgaria.

The more people express- during one or another interview for one or another position or job- that there must be more people ready to actively act for the four different aspects of social benefit: further development, fighting against inherited negative tendencies, social stability, and country growth, the larger is the army of functionaries ready to reintroduce methods where lots of peopled structures control the peopled masses, neither the controller nor the controlled in control of the economy, the science, the capital, or the projects for involvement in social control.

If one has a look at the Bulgarian political spectrum and the people ready to govern in the name of the country- the term ‘country’ now used to decreasingly imply ‘local population’- one may reach the conclusion that the candidates for power and posts are most appropriately forming a low dense social cohesion network woven by the collective endeavour of all the segments of the political pie chart, which network is reinforced with inter-party and inner-party similarity and opposition of the basic for the region, and historically developed for social positions, human types, economic dependencies, and coalitions.

In line with this, one may say that it is easy to choose whom to vote for at the general election on Sunday- one can vote for the person or party that will produce their next army of individuals ready to govern the assets they have access to, that can be used in the explaining of control failures with assets they have no access to, can control people they neither care about nor surpass in qualification and skills, can be used in the explaining of why a reform has reached a dead end, in one word, people who will climb to, or be hauled into, an upper network of denser rules and a compactability of job positions diversified with foreign specialists in all the relevant areas.

In line, here is an old poem of mine, almost rhymed with its own rhythm:
A Treacherous Partner
Life's such a treacherous, now, partner
It will slap its palm onto you
If unsuccessful to crush down,
it'll scoop you in a loving mood
It will, no trick of its now working,
hold your face as if for a kiss
Or it will fend off anybody
who can provide secured peace
It will raise you from the firm ground
to show its utmost respect
Or it will make your pride bend down
to learn its patience and its tact
Life's such a treacherous, now, partner
It needs you say that its your boss
All you can learn from life is how
to be more treacherous and cross
V.P.T. 7.07.2003
V.P.Toucheva 3.07.2009 Sofia, Bulgaria, EU