Silesian, old Polish heritage?

I'm just a very exasperated person. I mean. I don't understand this modern life at all. I think most Polish people are the same.

I really don't like this life. I don't know how to explain it, but I really wish things were back to the way they were before WW2 you know. And I wish it stayed that way.

I don't understand this life and am confused by it. I think most Polish people are the same? I just don't like or understand Western industrial society... I fail to see the point in it.

It may mean you have a depressive type of personality.

You need to take up a new activity to make your mind busy with sth useful. My advice - buy a piece of land and start cultivating it.


The clock ticks all the time and nothing can be the same as it was - it is impossible to enter the same river twice. People who lived then are mostly gone and new ones have completely different life attitudes.


Rather not. After various problems with adjusting to the new system when communism collapsed, most Poles finally adopted capitalism and now are feeling OK with it.

You'd be surprised how modern Poland is, especially in the bigger cities.


It's possible to find that life even in the modern world. We don't use a TV, listen to pop music on the radio (though both existed before WW2 including in Poland). or buy much processed food (ditto).


I hugely prefer it to Eastern or Southern industrial society however the corporate life is only one option out of many. What is your trade or profession?

I assume you weren't alive in that time so please remember you are only fatisizing On it.
But what exactly appeal to you in those times?

@Lenka

Thanks for the info.

It was definitely better than the world today.

People these days are naive if they think we have progressed ever since those times.

In what way?

There were longer working days, unsafe conditions, people only got a couple of weeks paid holiday (and had to fight to get that), healthcare wasn't free and housing conditions were much worse.

People had a pretty poor diet then too, high in carbohydrates and refined sugar with a resulting much lower life expectancy.

There were also far weaker social services, a huge amount of child abuse and education was far poorer.

If you'd been in pre-war upper Silesia, a place of political riots, strikes, oppression, poverty, hyperinflation, food shortages, and factory/mine accidents, you would probably have found much to dislike.

What I would like to know......earlier times as in "Schlesien"???? :)

Not to mention (often) no indoor plumbing, few if any electricity, no television, food shortages no antibiotica and other medicine we take for granted. Few if any public transportation outside the big cities. My grandfather lost 3 siblings in the 1930s to afflictions and diseases we can cure easily today.

@Neczypor
Romantisicing the past ey? Had a guy once who prefer a more simple life, knowing what to. What was expected of him, not having to guess it. Living like a peasant for instance everybody knowing it and accepting it. Not having to argue all the time about it etc

Rock musician Kukiz was born in Paczków and grew up in Niemodlin, both in Silesian Opole voivodship.

He made this song about Silesian patriotism 30 years ago - . Very nice music and wise lyrics with fragments in German while the Polish part is slightly influenced by Silesian accent.



Karolinka went to the German Federal Republic.
She will be a great lady,
she will get into an Audi or a Mercedes.

Karol followed her to the German Federal Republic.
A great man he will be,
he will get into an Audi or a Mercedes.

And I won't leave here and you, Johann, don't go either,
this is my land and your Heimat,
we share it both.
I was born here and I love Silesia like you,
I am a Silesian - du bist ein Schlessier, das ist unser's Gemeinsinn.

@pawian

Musically, it is crap......

No, you are crap saying so coz it proves you know little of Poland, as usual. It is an emulation of Silesian folk music. Ha!

You have the right to feel embarassed.

I've never owned an Audi.

Come on, don`t take Kukiz`s lyrics so seriously. I read in comments under the video that he voted with PIS against bigger autonomy for Silesia. I am not sure if it is true, though.

How is your Merc doing, btw??? :):):)

After 3 years I got used to it. Zx

Merc is US are kinda considered upscale,but way overpriced by my standards and ultra high maintenance same with Beemers,the Europeans ones are good but what they sell in the US are crap.I have never seen a happy owner after 4 years of owning it.

Is yours diesel??Most Euros prefer diesel,we hate it here with the damn noise the engine makes and the smell when the car is 3/4 yrs old.

Not diesel, petrol.

More exactly, of the song: Karolinka has gone to Gogolin town



Karolinka went to Gogolin
Karolinka went to Gogolin
And Karliczek followed her, a beautiful lady,
with a bottle of wine.
And Karliczek followed her, a beautiful lady,
with a bottle of wine.

She was going to Gogolin, she was looking ahead,
She was going to Gogolin, she was looking ahead, She didn't look
back at her elegant son , She didn't look back at her elegant son. Lead me, path, into this wide world. Lead me, path, into this. , into the wide world I will find there another nice little son who will be happy with me