ORIENTAL DREAM
Damir Nikšić

Bosnian Theology of Liberation is dreaming a dream. It is a Bosnian dream: a red dream of The Red Sion, a royal city, a free territory where in 1943 the dream of freedom and togetherness was dreamed - the sweetest of all dreams that have ever been dreamed on this territory, so revolutionary, beautiful and solemn that it’s close to a religious experience. 
 
BTL insists on the tradition and the pedagogy of the oppressed, on spirituality and humor, on agit-pop approach in the treatment of the dream of freedom in order to compress strongly the lines of sweet-dreamers into a monolith Bosnian knot, or a European navel knot of the old world, into one and only Bosnian dream which is also African, Asian, European and American. 
 
Today in Bosnia we defend the idea of the tradition of coexistence. Just as in 1937 revolutionary intellectuals of the world fought in Spain, today in Bosnia, we fight for a dream, but also for the reality (java), for the public cause (javna stvar), for res publica, against royalists and puppeteers, against nightmares of Fascism, slavery of the brutal Capitalism, Neocolonialism, discrimination and prejudice. In Bosnia we fight for the common dream, for the joint work, for the feast where the honest, hard-working and meek is invited, a feast where the vultures, predators, demagogues, explorators, canny, wolves and hyenas aren’t welcome.
 
A Fight for Human rights or for a piece of bread is a bitter fight. A fight for a dream is a sweet fight, and a Bosnian dream is the sweetest dream, because it’s an international dream, that the entire mankind should dream in Bosnia, and not Assirya and Egypte, or Gog and Magog. 
 
Everybody is invited, but the fact is that we can’t all dream the same Bosnian dream. It is not in everybody's heart. Those who dream it – they are the chosen ones and they have to find it within their selves, they have to recognize each other when awake, choose their side, recognize their part and role in the reality and when awake and therefore declare it loudly and clearly. Many people dream a Bosnian dream in the world today, but they haven’t discerned it in themselves yet, nor have they embraced it, or declared it loudly and clearly. Reality (java) is a public affair (javna stvar)- res publica. Every dream has its role and right to what is called the reality (java) and the public (javno) within the pluralism of ideas and dreams, the right of freedom to be publicly promoted and communicated.  Bosnian dream is a public affair (javan/javna stvar). Bosnian dream will be publicly communicated with the rest of the world through the BTL.  
 
BTL is for giving away Bosnia. We will indeed give Bosnia away! We will multiply it and share it as a common feast, unselfishly, and not only amongst ourselves, but with the entire world. We will share it by internationalizing the Bosnian dream and inviting all the dreamers to gather in the Bosnian camp (Tabor) and dream with us, to give the final answer to the “Eastern Question”, an answer which will not be the "Final Solution" of death, concentration camps and genocide, but of life and prosperity, togetherness and joint work.
 
BTL is the organization of joint work with the objective of internationalizing the Bosnian dream.

ORIENTAL DREAM
Damir Nikšić

Bosanska Teologija Oslobođenja sanja jedan san. To je Bosanski san: crveni san o Crvenom Sionu, o kraljevskom gradu, o slobodnoj teritoriji na kojoj je u novembru 1943. odsanjan san o slobodi i zajedništvu -  najslađi od svih snova koji su ikada sanjani na ovim prostorima, toliko revolucionaran, lijep i svečan da se graniči sa vjerskim iskustvom. 

BTO insistira na tradiciji potlačenog/mazluma, na pedagogiji potlačenog/mazluma, na duhovnosti i duhovitosti, na agit-pop pristupu u tretmanu sna o slobodi kako bi se zbili redovi slatkih sanjača i čvršće stegli u monolitni Bosanski čvor, u Evropski čvor pupka starog svijeta, u jedan jedini Bosanski san koji je i Afrički, i Azijski, i Evropski, a i Američki san.

U Bosni se danas brani ideja i tradicija Konvivencije. Kao što su se 1937. revolucionarni intelektualci svijeta borili u Španiji, u Bosni se danas bori za san, ali i za javu, za javnu stvar, za res publica-u, protiv rojalista i marionetista, protiv košmara fašizma, protiv ropstva brutalnog kapitalizma, protiv neokolonijalizma, protiv imperijalizma, protiv segregacije, rasizma, diskriminacije, predrasuda. U Bosni se bori za zajednički san, za udruženi rad, za zajedničku trpezu za koju su pozvani čestiti, vrijedni, radini i krotki, za trpezu za koju strvinari i predatori, demagozi, eksploatatori, lisice, vukovi i hijene nisu dobrodošli. 

Borba za ljudska prava, za komad kruha je gorka borba. Borba za san je slatka borba, a Bosanski san je najslađi san, jer je internacionalni san koji u Bosni treba odsanjati čitavo čovječanstvo, a ne Asir i Misir, a ne Gog i Magog. 

Svi su pozvani, ali činjenica je da ne možemo svi sanjati isti Bosanski san. Nije on svima u srcu. Oni koji ga sanjaju - oni su odabrani i moraju ga prepoznati u sebi, moraju se međusobno prepoznati na javi, odrediti svoju stranu, raspoznati svoj dio i udio u javi i na javi i jasno i glasno to javno objaviti. Bosanski san u ovom trenutku sanjaju mnogi na svijetu, ali ga još u sebi nisu razabrali, niti su ga prigrlili, niti su to objavili na javi i javno. Java je javna stvar - res publica. Svaki san ima svoj udio i pravo na javu i javno u pluralizmu ideja i snova, pravo slobode da javno promovira i komunicira svoj san. Bosanski san je javna stvar. Bosanski san će se komunicirati javno i ostatku svijeta putem BTO.

BTO je za to da se Bosna podijeli. Bosnu ćemo uistinu podijeliti! Podijelićemo je kao zajedničku trpezu, nesebično, i to ne samo između sebe, nego sa čitavim svijetom. Podijelićemo je tako što ćemo Bosanski san internacionalizirati i pozvati sve sanjače da se okupe u Bosanskom Taboru da sanjaju skupa s nama, da daju konačan odgovor na "Istočno pitanje", odgovor koji neće biti "Konačno" rješenje smrti, logora i genocida, već života i prosperiteta, zajedništva i udruženog rada.

BTO je organizacija udruženog rada na internacionaliziranju Bosanskog sna.

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www.damirniksic.com
www.biennial.ba