Gongo Aso

This is a fine political speech. It has no relevance to the actual situation, however, because you have no more idea than anyone else how "the people" is to be created in an empire that isn't a nation-state, and in which the constituent nations have less in common than they have to fight about. Titoism was a little miracle of post-imperial nation-creation, but of course "Brotherhood and Unity" was destroyed by nationalism at the death of the emperor. Not for nothing did my Yugoslav friends say that Slobodan Milosevic was the first man to notice that Tito was dead.

Compared to Nigeria, unifying the south Slavs in the Balkans is a piece of cake. What you demand it would be good to have, but there's no point demanding what no one knows how to do. Or rather, there is a point, if such language is merely a cover for effective control of violence: the music the State uses as accompaniment to the real business of Empire, which is force. But you aren't seeking to be despot; you are seeking to build a life for yourself inside a civil society you wish for intensely, and which does not exist. If you knew exactly how to make it, you could try. But without exact knowledge of how, the motive is imminently tragic.