The CPK case proves that in the case of the current Prime Minister we are dealing with a man from a distant past – a stuffy and greasy past.
One of the biggest myths of Polish politics has collapsed. At the same time one of the most hypocritical myths. It collapsed because of the outrage expressed by Donald Tusk’s government over the most important modernization and civilization project for Poland, the Central Communication Port. It’s not even about Tusk wanting to end this project because reducing it to a bigger airport completely destroys the essence of this project. The point is that Tusk stopped thinking decades ago and is now clearly a relic, if we put it in the language of modern urban dialect. Scrapbook and fossil.
The image of CPK as just a meadow guarded as an extremely important object, often used by politicians and supporters of the current government and Tusk himself, perfectly reflects the level and style of thinking of ancient people and fossils. Tusk stopped at a station from about a hundred years ago and waited for a train. Only it’s a ghost train. And Tusk himself does not realize that he is stuck in the past. Because there is a modern transport hub nearby. And Tusk isn’t even aware that all his trains have left. And he sits on a bench in a station overgrown with weeds, just like the titular Jańcio Wodnik in Jan Jakub Kolski’s film, and he himself is overgrown with weeds.
The myth of Donald Tusk mainly consisted in the fact that he was depicted as a modern man, who understood the trends of civilization, completely European and even secular. The CPK case, and not just this one, proves that we are dealing with a man from a distant past. A past that was dusty and aesthetically poor, in which once a day a narrow gauge railway leaves the Pipid Railway, forgotten by everyone. Tusk’s idea of Poland ended sometime in the 1950s at the latest, when the main tool was a shovel and the drive was muscle power.
It is no coincidence that Tusk and his supporters often talk about CPK as a lonely shovel stuck in the ground in a meadow in Baranów. This is their horizon of thought and civilization. Meanwhile, the CPK project, prepared by the Law and Justice government, is an almost cosmic undertaking, impressive in scale, modernity and architecturally and aesthetically beyond anything created so far in Poland, and perhaps even in Europe. Tusk can’t handle it, he’s stuck in his weed-covered station, with the mentality of an old man and a fossil.
The image of civilizational and intellectual backwardness, or even collapse, was demonstrated by the new proxy for the CPK, Maciej Lasek. He contrasted the big vision and equally big visualization of the CPK project with his own (and probably Tusk’s) approach, comparable to that of an attendant in a gees (municipal cooperative – without insulting these institutions) in Gomułka’s time. He admitted himself to a dirty hut with a blackboard on the wall. And on this board he pinned four crumpled pieces of paper from the printer with magnets, supposedly referring to the CPK project.
Maciej Lasek’s little cards pinned to the board with magnets are the best metaphor for the pettiness, clinginess, and even extreme trashiness of Donald Tusk’s team. Because a project of almost cosmic quality and large scale was reduced to the construction of a sławojka, that is, a detached outbuilding from the time of the Second Polish Republic, invented by Prime Minister Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski. Lasek’s presentation was as bad as an average celebrity’s outfit.
The great European and worldly Tusk turns out to be a complicated provincial (with all due respect to the province) with the intellectual horizon of an illiterate goatherd of antiquity (without really offending professional shepherds). This also applies to his handyman Maciej Lasek. How can such people face the future, modernity and projects whose meaning they do not even understand? Of course, the mentality of a slave could also be at work here, as he does not go beyond what they think of for him in Berlin, but the piece is so visible that it cannot just be an appearance or an entourage. . That’s how they are and their vision of the world, modernity and the future is so extremely bad.
Tusk sat down and stayed on a bench, similar to Jańcio Wodnik in Kolski’s film. It was overgrown with weeds, covered in cobwebs and dust, and littered with birds. Time stood still for him. And from this perspective he looks at the future of Poland, the future of civilization projects like the CPK. And it seemed so nice, European.
Source: wPolityce