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| Numbers / Depopulation Of Islands |
| Miće Gamulin |
Even the word Mediterranean alone evokes some ancient tried-and-true experience, soaked in romance and culture. The fate of the Eastern coast of the Adriatic and its islands is only a small part of that age-long settled memory subject to the changes of people and their customs. Our islands have had, as with the entire Mediterranean, their rises and falls, crescendos and difficult-to-measure chasms. In that entire poetic reflection about the coast, often full of emotional charges and memories, it is often difficult to find one’s bearings and to uncover that which is important. The Mediterranean never endures superficiality, not even in the moments of the crudest tourist exploitations. People always come to it to find some secret and to uncover some deeply hidden truth. The relentless numbers of statistical lists that have been carried out in ten-year rhythms in these our parts, opposite to that of lyricism and poetry, relentlessly uncover the succession of the depopulation of our islands. The islands have become an undesirable place for biological reproduction and permanent living. These numbers undoubtedly reveal the demagogical eloquence concerning Mediterranean orientation and the actual situation which leads to the decrease in the numbers of inhabitants, which is the only real factor evaluating the integrity and successfulness of politics. Following the undeniable population peak on our islands achieved towards the end of the rule of the K&K Empire, what ensues is the almost permanent fall in the number of inhabitants. This number, without a doubt, uncovers the political setting that decreed the laws. Only in reading the numbers does it become clear that the islands were the most desirable and that they had the best treatment for old Austria, when today’s abandoned schools and ports were being built. From these numbers one can clearly see that all the politics that came to rule after in fact did not think in a Mediterranean fashion. Today, in times of frightful acceleration, the challenges are greater than ever; how our islands will adapt is the question. The fact is that in the period of integrating Europe and peace in the Levant region, it has never been worse for us. |
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