We have been human since we are a conversation and since we can hear each other... That's what Helderlin said, and who to believe if not the great poets. They should be trusted even when times come when no one trusts anyone.
The agreement signed by three (until yesterday) opposition leaders could have a healing effect on this society. Beyond our day-to-day outrages, crazy minute-by-minute spins, and red-hot propaganda staffs, it's a chance that could make this society better.
Someone could say - all the items in the agreement are bare generalities. And that's quite true, all these things are taken for granted in a normal society. Some foreigner probably wouldn't even understand you if you tried to explain to him what is written there - that the new government will not change the flag, the Constitution, the national anthem, strategic directions... But this has not been a normal society for a long time. So many suspicions, the endless and general production of suspicion, the conviction of the hidden intentions of everyone else (except me, naive and honest) has made the modern Montenegrin society a labyrinth of trenches and all kinds of pitfalls... An orgy of subterfuge and hatred.
This kind of document seems to say that we are able to step out of that vicious circle of accusations and mistrust. That maybe, for once, we cross the threshold of normality.
Probably the most important: among the actors of the agreement - no one controls anyone. It is a novelty on the Montenegrin scene. And the essence of the positive progress that could be brought by such an agreement.
DPS based every cooperation (coalition and any) exclusively on submission and complete control. With them, partnership was not possible, but only service. I believe that they entered the war against Vijesta and the independent scene because they could not control that part of society. And a special passion in that conflict was shown by those who shamelessly and unreservedly put themselves at the disposal of the authorities. That is why the government's propaganda machinery was burdened with the fight against traitors and the unfit. It is a sign of immaturity and incompleteness of a society.
Another famous agreement should be remembered today. Thanks to the Agreement between DPS and the opposition from September 1997, that party moved, as they like to say here, "to the right side of history". That was a key moment in their emancipation from Milošević. Here, significant agreements have the power to initiate emancipatory processes, but, at least in some cases, to "cleanse" the biographies of the signatories.
Wanting to present itself as a choice of prudence, the government talked about the alleged adventurism of the opposition in the campaign. Still, it was just a meaningless label, not that effective. Namely, many significant things started under the guise of adventurism, as well as many bad ones. That, I mean, doesn't mean anything. The meaning brings the importance of the processes that will be initiated, the importance of change and its effect on a society.
One should not be euphoric. Nevertheless, this Agreement could be one of the great days of modern Montenegro. But the agreement is a text, and life is people and their flies, pains, madness, fears... Today, the question is not unimportant - what are the ambitions of the Serbian Orthodox Church now? This word (agreement) contains both "reason" and "defeat". It depends on us what will happen.
The three leaders are currently acting like the Three Tenors: they look great and their every word is in place... As long as they are on stage, everything works as it should.
Again, these days I often remember Pavić's sentence - that sometimes there is a bigger difference between two yeses than between yes and no.
No one is normal without worries, but this is, first and foremost, Montenegro. But this is also where Helderlin is helpful. And who to trust, if not him: Where danger grows, salvation also grows...
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