IF YOU ARE HAPPY, anticelebration

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Photo: Nada Žgank & Tina Kosec
 
IF YOU’RE HAPPY

The repetitive children’s song that was being diligently taught in kindergartens and primary schools, around the time when the idea of liberalism was being born in the collapsing Yugoslavia. I still remember how I tried to “shout my hurray” and create a feeling of that happiness, one of the first indoctrinations of the new, post-socialist ideology. (more…)