When in my motherland Croatia, I’m urged to criticize so many aspects of life, societal and social, but one thought puts a brake: in order to question about why Croatia is the way it is, I should be able to imagine how it might have been. Here I don’t think about some examples in the current world, other peoples and their countries, but what could be expected from Croats themselves, Croatian human resources that is.

Croats are people not well suited for the contemporary world. Historical excuses aside, and Croats are really good at that, Croatian intellectuals never switched from pure reasoning and arguing as highest aims of life to practical reasoning of technology, the revolution in thinking started by Francis Bacon and industrial revo- lution. Croats can repeatedly argue about the same question in length, without a resolution or tentative hints at least. Croats like to debate and practical achievements are less valued than words, spoken or written. Several Croatian sub-languages are developed for the main fields of deliberations; among them, polit- ical sub-language sounds ridicules but the sub-langu- age of literary and musical critics is simply grotesque. I even believe that Croatian high tolerance of corruption and cheating is on the same line - those are practical activities not verbal art.