KAKO CE BUDUĆA ISTORIJA OCENJIVATI 20. VEK?
HOW WILL HISTORY EVALUATE THE 20TH CENTURY IN THE FUTURE?

Summary/Abstract: There are several reasons why people in the 21st century will not bother to search for the »historical truth« of the 20th century. The cursory opinion that the 20th century is »the century of evil« will not rouse the attention of historians or of other people in the 21st century. The present and new historical conjectures for the coming century will make superfluous any attention given to historical events of the 20th century. There will be no motivation for reaching a comprehensive and meaningful evaluation of that century. The transition caused by the mass media is almost decisive. The mass media »presents« the past, present and future. History as a sequel of human events no longer exists, it has been absorbed by the media cable. Truth is what those who rule the media tell us. Old myths are destroyed, new ones created. Time should not be wasted in discovering the truth about the 20th qentury1. It is better to embark on the 21st century with questions regarding the new century and armed with the great inventions of the 20th century. A modest century where matters of the spirit are concerned. No one in the future will be able to unravel the essential difference between the »ideology' of blood and soil« of he 20th century, the authoritarian »humanism of the masses« and the monopolistic ideology of »human rights«. We shall be free of the history of the integral past. Contradictory evaluations of the 20th century are not easily resolved. Towards the end of the 20th century it seems easier to see: bolshevism, fascism and bourgeois democracy come down to the same common denominator. Will we go from the extremes of the 20th century to the end of human history? This century should be declared small, almost void in order to make place for man’s new historical initiative, for the growth of ideas and the act of individual and social freedom.

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