Rebels

The concept of rebellion is in crisis, and the revolution from Wall Street should be seen in that light: new roads, new streets, without walls if possible...

Even the name Wall Street combines the incompatible - the Street and the Wall. The connection is impossible, or at least perverse - the street allows you to go somewhere, and the wall prevents you from such a predicament. However, perhaps such a name contains something of the essence of today's global problem. We live in a civilization that slowly gets used to not distinguishing between the Street and the Wall. That is, no matter how much we actually stand in front of the wall (reality), we have the impression, thanks to the deceptive nature of media civilization, that it is a street that can be passed. Cynicism and perversion – two key words to describe today's situation. Maybe a shift will be possible when we clearly understand that - this is a wall, and there is no way through. And it is up to us over the Wall to play with the famous verse of one of the greatest South Slavic poets of the XNUMXth century, Mako Dizdar.

The virus, however, is spreading in the West. I'm not sure that comparisons with the "Arab Spring" work in some deeper layers. Nevertheless, that spring made the Empire happy, it fit into the standard imperial climatology, and what the honorable protesters are doing all over the American and even European cities is a blow, a sharp bite into the Dark Heart of the Empire.

And rebellion is like a busy phone number – you have to keep dialing, regardless of the annoying busy signal. You never know which spin will be the right one. Yours is that you are persistent, and the match will happen once...

Of course, I was happy when I saw that a similar attempt would take place in Podgorica as well. Yes, there's that address problem, and it's really intriguing. Where is our Dark Heart? Because institutions mean nothing here. And again, how will the protesters chase the Master around the city? They would have to move from cafe to cafe... And Lepi Mića was playing everywhere.

However, it's good to - (re)move. It is true that this is the only capital city in Europe where students have never fought with the police, where young rebels have never left their mark on the petty-bourgeois body of the City, but... Everything has an end. (Except for the cynicism and arrogance of neoliberal capitalism, a pessimist would say. And we will see that, the optimist believes.)

In fact, an event yesterday pushed me towards this, let's call it, pessimistic pole. We are known for our love of inventing hot water, and the latest confirmation of this claim is more of a caricature. Namely, the students in Nikšić rebelled because they don't have enough hot water in their dorms. Some may find such a priority strange - I believe that it is not the most important problem concerning student existence in Montenegro. There will be bigger troubles in their living space. Although, the rebellion of 1968 formally began when the students of a suburban Parisian university demanded a different regime in the student dormitories. That's how it started, and the rest is history. However, why do I believe that this problem with hot water in Nikšić will not gain the status of "history"?

The president of the home organization of students in Nikšić, while talking about the reasons, seems to be apologizing. He says that they were forced to express their dissatisfaction with a peaceful protest, "because their basic maintenance of personal hygiene is threatened". "Last year, we had hot water all the time, and now it's two hours in the morning and in the evening, which is not enough for about 400 students in the dormitory," he said. Then he explains:

"We talked several times with the administration of the House and it was explained to us that it has to be done this way because of savings". And so on. This kind of rhetoric doesn't really look like Crveni Deni or Rudi Dučke. The administration explained to the students that it could not meet them, because "due to the difficult economic situation, they have to save on energy." The protesting young man said that the other conditions in the Home are satisfactory, that there are no problems with accommodation. How can it not sound cartoonish when you read the explanation of the director of the dormitory, a certain Đukanović, that no student dormitory in Montenegro can provide residents with constant hot water.

After this, answer the question yourself - could the world virus of rebellion affect Montenegro as well? In an infinite number of reasons, someone will in the end invent it again - hot water.

I guess that's the revolution that's going on. Like warm water. In two daily sessions - and everyone is calm.