These are the gifts of the crown, and one should always be careful with the gifts of the crown. It is the age for twilight metaphors and poets of the region. You may wonder if it is a crystallization or just a literalization of that crucial modernist feeling, the unsettling gravity of the End, which echoes from Baudelaire through Rilke to Ružević and the poets of our day.
Twilight pictures - a man with his fear. In this issue of Art, in another brilliant text ("The being of fear lives in the cry"), that tightrope walk between current reality and the greatest reaches of art, Dimitrije finds today's view of the emblematic modernist icon, Munkov Krik.
Man always easily agrees to the disturbing rituals that cancel the so-called normality: almost like a sports result, you wait for the portal to inform you about today's number. A few months ago, a dozen cases a day were perceived as too many, now we have "Googled" figures of ninety-odd cases a day.
The sudden negotiations between the Government and the Serbian Orthodox Church, as in the time of the Secretary for Religious Affairs, are scheduled for the day. Although both sides talk about the need for negotiations, to me that agreement looks like that beautiful and true sentence by Pavić - "Sometimes there is a bigger difference between two Yes, than between Yes and No."
Some saw the negotiations as a chance to somewhat soften the pre-election environment, relaxing the pre-election "idyl" from a problem they don't know how to deal with: the church one.
On the other hand, by rejecting the very idea of registration, a harmless bureaucratic act, the Church actually rejects, as I called it earlier, the very idea of its "legalization" in Montenegro.
The impression is that the SPC rejects any form of entry into the legal order of Montenegro. The Church here wants to show its supremacy over the state, it is now playing Matija Bećković - it wants to say that it is older than Montenegro, and that it will outlive it. Although I firmly believe that the SPC will hit just as well as the aforementioned poet, people from the Church believe that their firm is more "eternal" than the Eternal. That is a serious message. Especially in the context in which the church expresses itself and in the literally street political struggle, which, by the way, has no end in sight.
This kind of matchmaking by the authorities is simply not a worthy (or even sufficient) tool compared to the SPC. Neither are the endless hysterical texts of the patriots on duty. For example, they burn in convincing each other in what they all believe anyway.
The already almost mythical Third Package finally saw the light of day. First, you see the impressive sum, but it is not a Montenegrin Marshall Plan, this is for four years, and again, most of the aid is fiction. Why exactly four years? Who among the economic experts made such an estimate? It must be an ideal period for an economic boom, or something else is at stake...
Well, let's say, now, if the SPC was registered, they would certainly find some help within the Third Package, because, to be honest, the church is also affected economically, there are not so many pilgrims, Ostrog does not make money from heaven, but from people who come there. This way - they couldn't squeeze them into the Third Package. And let them think about the Fourth. One small registration? Can?
Don't mind the parodic tone. Doesn't everything seem like a parody. Well, that's another symptom of the End of civilization.
Everything starts to seem like a parody, even sports - the NBA in a bubble and Liverpool's celebration in an empty stadium...
And we are preparing for the elections and for the tourist season? And, I'm afraid, the season and the elections will act as a parody. And a sad one at that. A parody of democracy and longed-for normality.
While listening to pre-election wish lists, you might think that the only thing here that is not a parody is the fact that today's Montenegrin society has become a hostage. And the hostage doesn't ask himself...
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