Today’s Present Future of Yesterday

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Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Ivica Dačić is a time traveler. Few people know this.

Speaking at Takovo, celebrating the 2nd Serbian Uprising (where they actually managed a good slap at Ali Pasha, leaving the Ottoman Turks to slowly lose interest and drift home 63 years later), the Deputy Prime Minister said:

"Takovo isn't the place which is supposed to turn us toward the past, but to the future ..." and that "the Serbian present was different today."

Want proof? (http://www.b92.net/eng/news/society-article.php?yyyy=2010&mm=04&dd=23&nav_id=66681)

In other words, here we are in the present looking back to the past but really we should look to the future and then the past will look different in the future of the present day as we look back and forward in the moment.

Or...

The future ain't what it used to be (quoth Yogi Berra) and the present now is different from the present then, inasmuch as 200

Yogi Berra

years (well 195 but who is counting?) have passed between the two presents and the future then did not look like our present wherein we are looking back to the past to create a new tomorrow!

Right?

It is time travel, pure and simple. And I take my hat off (that is if I were to wear a hat but perhaps in some unwritten past future I do, did, or will) to this acrobatic piece of Synchronized Chronological Swimming.

Our present is different today, my dear Ivica! And thank goodness for that. Otherwise we should check ourselves in as a nation for historical Alzheimer's treatment.

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AlexDunja 22:08 24.04.2010

:)

I could never understand all those years...

days make all my jazz

loader 22:51 24.04.2010

Re: :)

yugaya 23:54 24.04.2010

bwahahahahaha

"the Serbian present was different today."

....as opposed to what? Yesterday? Tomorrow? Last time his brain was able to grasp the concept of time?

The mind boggles.

docsumann 01:53 25.04.2010

that's how all those years sound to me

blue rider 09:38 25.04.2010

Ivica is a much more then time traveler

Ivica is not only a proven time traveler, actually he is more like a black hole - bends time and space so that he can at the same time be Milosevic's grandson and the biggest European.

Another interesting virtue of a black hole, and therefore Ivica, is a fact that he has so much mass packed into such a small package (look at the guy) that his tremendous gravity basically dissolves everything that it touches. And this is a fact as well.

mikimedic 11:37 25.04.2010

what a waste of time and space

"the Serbian present was different today."

Our present is different today, my dear Ivica!

mind if i give u a peace of advice? next time when u have nothing to do, don't just rush and write a blog not only over a non-issue, but a blog that lacks basics of logic. cause it's an insult to a common sense.

by doing so, u may in fact cause less damage to your and spajic consulting firm -- if u have any clients at all, just in any case. simply, cause i do wonder who would be seeking advice from such experts of logic.

so what if, presumably, dacic made a grammar mistake? is it worth of writing a blog?

but then again -- did dacic really made a grammar mistake in english?

it never occured to u that perhaps dacic was speaking in serbian? and maybe sequence of tenses sounds a bit different?

maybe some lousy translator in b92 had no idea how to translate in correct tense?

... but yet, enough to be worth of attempting to ridicule dacic?

in any case, this logic definitely merits a blog. i really envy spajic and your customers, i must say... i would really be interested to see profile of your clients -- who pays for services of such experts of logic nad ridiculing?

Chris Farmer 12:12 25.04.2010

Re: what a waste of time and space

Ah mikimedic!

You do not disappoint! I anticipated finding you in the responses to this.

I must say that I have missed your ability to understand irony and satire, your unfailing ability to avoid the trap of taking yourself and everyone overly seriously, and your shrewd insights into my scribbling.

But I am sure you have missed these qualities longer than I.

(I note in passing the the "waste of time" you decry is also a singular irony as I am sure you spent more time in your diatribe against me than I did in gently poking fun at a turn of phrase).

yugaya 13:34 25.04.2010

Re: what a waste of time and space

mikimedic

so what if, presumably, dacic made a grammar mistake?

No, he did not.

but then again -- did dacic really made a grammar mistake in english?

The grammar is fine, it's the logic that defies reason behind the statement that is wrong

maybe some lousy translator in b92 had no idea how to translate in correct tense?

Nope, the tense agreement in the translation is also fine

it never occurred to u that perhaps dacic was speaking in serbian?

His statement is equally stupid in the original :

On je rekao da je skoro dva veka nakon takovskog ustanka srpska sadašnjost drugačija.

znaci skoro dva veka od tada - 'sada' je sada(snjost) drugacija.

A juce je valjda bila ista?!!!???

duchesse 16:19 25.04.2010

Future perfect

The future perfect tense talks about the past in the future.

Example:
By the time we get to our future, our present will have become our past.

Actually, I think he was plain drunk. Wouldn't be the first time...