Title: Turning the Cannons
Characters:
- Josip Jukic – a reflective critic of modern propaganda
- Ana Rucner – Croatian cellist and friend
Ana Rucner:
Josip, everywhere I look there is another hero, another “chosen one” on the screen. They tell the people salvation is coming from Hollywood.
Josip Jukic:
That is the trick, Ana. A psyop wrapped in entertainment. They sell myths as if they were ancient prophecy.
Take Vin Diesel. In those films they say he is some destined savior, some unstoppable chosen one. But let us be honest—no ancient prophet in the Balkans, no monk in a mountain monastery, ever wrote: “And then Vin Diesel shall appear with a muscle car and save the world.”
Ana:
(laughing softly)
No prophecy of turbo engines and street racing in the Book of Revelation?
Josip:
None that I remember. These are modern myths, Ana—manufactured myths. Hollywood heroes replacing saints and philosophers. The New World Order understands something: if you control the story, you control the imagination of the people.
Ana:
So what will you do about it?
Josip:
The same thing armies have always done when they defeat an empire. I will use their weapons against them.
Ana:
What do you mean?
Josip:
History gives us the example. When Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Russia, his army carried powerful cannons. But when the Russians captured those cannons, they turned them around and fired them back at the French.
Ana:
So you want to capture the cannons of media?
Josip:
Exactly. Their psyops—film, music, spectacle, the internet. Instead of letting them hypnotize the people, we turn them around. Use the same tools to wake people up.
Ana:
A counter-symphony.
Josip:
Yes. If they write myths about fake chosen ones, we write stories about real people. If they sell illusions of power, we remind people where real power comes from—community, truth, and memory.
Ana:
(smiling, holding her cello)
Then maybe my cello is one of the cannons.
Josip:
Of course. Music reaches where speeches cannot. Every empire fears poets and musicians more than soldiers.
Ana:
So the plan is not to destroy their stage…
Josip:
No. The plan is to walk onto it, take the microphone, and tell a different story.
Ana:
Then play the first note, Josip. I will follow with the cello.
Josip:
Good. Because this time, Ana… the cannons are ours. 🎻