Trying to avoid these worldly-spiritual narcotics with which Montenegrins of all faiths and nations are once again addicted to hatred, I came across some show about technological changes until the end of the century. Toyota, if I understood correctly, announces the construction of a smart, orderly and clean city in which all residents will be chipped.
Well, it has been clear for a long time that we could learn a lot from the Japanese in terms of intelligence, orderliness and cleanliness. However, I would not take this chipping for granted, nor lightly accept it as something advanced. Of course, I do not doubt the progress of science, but I still believe only with my eyes.
The inhabitants of Montenegro - which was drastically smarter then than today - were chipped for the first time during the Berlin Congress. It was done - but only conditionally - according to the Montenegrin code. The country whose independence was de facto confirmed by the San Stefano Peace Treaty lost a good chunk of tangible territory in Berlin. In return, it gained virtual international prestige and very real internal divisions.
Four decades later, we were chipped again, but - also conditionally speaking - according to the Serbian code. In both cases, of course, it was about the commercial business of international dignitaries.
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Unconditionally and very effectively, Montenegro was erased from the European map. But divisions were never erased from the domestic map. Neither while the state was at rest, nor after it was resurrected twice. During its first resurrection, in which many lives were incorporated at the beginning, Josip Broz did as much as he could and could with regard to those divisions and in spite of them. Opponents laughed at his brotherhood and unity for 35 years. For the last three decades, they and the former admirers of his character and work have been crying.
After the second resurrection, sometimes even without death, the would-be heirs to one-sixth of Broz's power - but not even six percent of wisdom - did not find it necessary to do anything. If you don't count the deepening of the division, with a lot of blood in the beginning. The fact that more foreign than domestic was spilled is not a consolation but an indictment...
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Let's not lie anymore, these days we are talking about these divisions, and not about the great love of the government and its subjects for the holy places. When she was first suddenly awakened three decades ago, there were some benefits. Even if the village donkeys were driven out of the temples.
Then, thanks to the party delegates, some urban donkeys entered the scene. Because of which the shrines have been smelling not of incense but of burgers for decades. Centuries-old temples are now decorated with anodized locks, and the work of the most gifted stone carvers is simply - plastered over.
There is no room for lamenting over unification or joining, the Podgorica assembly and the border in 1918. All of that was put out of force long ago by Avnoj, and certified by the Constituent Assembly of the first and last normal Yugoslavia.
What a black correction of historical injustice, if the intentions of the authorities were sincere, they should first correct that injustice of recent production.
When the young, beautiful and smart Montenegrin putschists decided to correct the internal "mistakes" of the Avnoj cadres at the end of the nineties. And cadastre on one church and what is and what was not hers.
All because at the beginning of the nineties, they failed to fulfill their vow to the same church about correcting the external borders of the "learned Avnojeva cartographers"...
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That's why December 27 was no D-day - such days are announced here and for more senseless reasons - nor will D-day follow the announced negotiations of secular and spiritual authorities.
Firstly, due to the fact that the offered topics of negotiations are incompatible. The government accepts the conversation exclusively about the application of the law. The Church, however, wants dialogue only after the law is withdrawn from circulation. Second, even if the prime minister and the metropolitan sat down at the table, what good would that do. The former cannot expect from the latter that any agreement is valid on the territory of the entire country. Because the jurisdiction of the Metropolis - whose seat is in Cetinje - is wider than four nahijas only for a small part of the former hills. For the greater part of the north and the coast, dioceses whose seat is outside Montenegro are responsible.
Thirdly, but most importantly, what if it turns out that the Serbian president is just a spokesman for the Serbian patriarch. The Metropolitan has been a thorn in his side ever since he was his competitor for the position of head of the Serbian Orthodox Church. And after that, he was also the fiercest opponent of the patriarch's unanimity with the secular master of Serbia on Kosovo and what else.
Really, what if the Serbian patriarch - before or during the negotiations - decides to be the main negotiator? In whose name will the Montenegrin Prime Minister sit down at the table with someone who does not even recognize the existence of 60 percent of the population of Montenegro.
At least that's how it was until the other day, if I didn't miss a statement by the head of the Serbian Orthodox Church in which he recognizes the right of Montenegrins and Bosniaks to live under those names...
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While the negotiations are being negotiated, neither the government, nor the opposition, nor the church, as the third but not the least important accomplice in Montenegrin's backward path, are trying to take themselves or their followers seriously. And to start the dialogue from the fundamental issue, because of which, even on the most innocuous occasion, huge amounts of latent hatred surface on the public scene.
That question is - are we even capable of living together, and not exclusively next to each other. With the arrival of the government, which changes desirable nations in every decade of rule. As soon as one of them reads it, the second is in the first place. He won the election at least twice with that fraud, and then again and again...
Everyone knows that these manipulations have fueled conflicts between the street and the parliament, the Serbian Church and the Montenegrin government, the Metropolitan and the President.
The law is only an occasion, one of the manifestations of those incentives for divisions. And we are chipped to deal exclusively with occasions. And only until the next one comes along…
PS Unfortunately, half of the population cannot remember how life without such dangerous divisions was once possible in Montenegro. And it's an even bigger shame that most of the other half have consciously subjected their real memories to collective amnesia. And refused to remember how many people were sacrificed in the last war. So that after him we would get what was offered to us in time in peace - that all the member states of the great SFRY would be recognized as autocephalous within the existing borders...
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