Hypocrites

It was a weekend of living dangerously. Which continued as a festival of hypocrisy.

Overwhelmed by our passions, convictions, and emotions, we should not forget one thing: if one head had fallen on Cetinje, Montenegro would not have reconciled for another thirty years. It would certainly be a prelude to civil strife. And then no amount of hindsight would help. As we remember it from thirty years ago. Any literate resident of Yugoslavia would easily tell you, and many did, what must not happen, so that's exactly what happened.

However, in Montenegro, it is not only the afterthought that is hard, but also the mental need for the subsequent loading of one's own contribution. As things get further apart in time, you have more and more crucial heroes. So these days after the weekend in Cetinje were interesting for that reason: as the matter ended somehow without blood, and with the human rights of both respected, the hysteria of "appropriation" began. That fight for merit will shake the foundations of the current government like an earthquake. With the help of the Democrats, who were nowhere to be seen during the rumbling, but were the first to speak when the smoke cleared. Accusing on all sides. By real name - Hypocritical Montenegro.

So the craziest outcome is possible: that the Cetinje "victory" comes to the head of the government, so that Đukanović still profits from the events in Cetinje. Although he is basically the biggest loser: not a shadow of how he sees himself, not like how he is seen (for the umpteenth time) by his deluded subjects. Đukanović continues an incredible series of failures and miscalculations. It is possible that in the last three years he had more such fouls than in his entire earlier career. Like all hypocritical autocrats, he is incapable of knowing when it is time to step off the stage, because autocrats always believe that without them everything would fall apart. His "Cetin" record is a classic embarrassment. With a push from Bob Rock. Worthy of the highlights of the TNT group. (Hello Bing, how bro…)

By some (doubtful? unreliable?) inertia, you expect to recognize a somewhat different approach in the clergy. It is not logical for you to recognize the same matrix of thought in a praetorian and a patriarch. And that's exactly what was happening here. I have to admit that I still do not understand the persistence of the gentlemen high priests on a scenario that was extremely risky. Not only for their heads and beards, but also for many other citizens.

Such inertia in thinking and expectation is not due to any high expectation from the high priest (that would be too naive), but the very nature of Christianity, the religion they supposedly represent (and spread) in this world. The greatness and beauty of Christianity as a religious concept rests precisely on a clear departure from the imperial logic and way of thinking - after all, if you remember, the emperors sent them to the lions. When you see that imperial (political) logic is being promoted in the name of Christianity (and that as the only possible one) - "at any cost", it is clear to you that in a historical and philosophical sense, a two-millennium game of deaf phones has played out between those two Christianities. Quite simply, today's message does not even resemble the original for a long time. The church is the institution responsible for this type of deformation. The moment when one ritual and its place became more important to you than one human head, you are as far from Christianity as Stalin was from a just society of equals.

In Montenegro, as soon as you don't speak enthusiastically about the church, you are accused of communist propaganda or even anti-Semitism. So listen to how a great Serbian poet wrote on this topic in 1877. "I watched you more than ever,/When you cheat the living God;/I watched you, where you drink,/Where you eat and enjoy yourself./I listened to you, when you swear/your flock, your faithful,/And when you invoke secrets,/Hypocrites , hypocrites!” (Monks). Since it is unlikely that Đura Jakšić was anti-Serb and Tito's bastard, take him seriously. I would always rather believe a poet than a politician or a pope.