Minority

We also welcomed a minority government. I heard that a cruel curse was also born - since they were putting together a minority government. Obviously, that concept upset many, but I'm afraid that the primary reason is that people know little about what a minority government is and how it functions. Our democratic experience is meager and phallic, so we must be ready to expand our political experiences... Admittedly, each minority government is a story in itself: it depends on too many variables to predict anything reliably.

Since the current story about the minority government, we have witnessed our usual confusion. And betrayed will of voters (which will? and which voters?), and betrayal, and unconstitutional and illegitimate. Mostly - unworthy nonsense.

However, some intonations from this whole tangle deserve additional illumination. Especially the need to rhetorically and politically deify the concept of the majority, even when everyone means something different by that. It is always dangerous to absolutize the majority, because "majority" is mostly a fluid category and, of course, does not have to be in any logical correlation with justice or truth.

First of all: the truth is rarely in the possession of the majority. That is - never. This is an axiom. Although, many think that the opinion of the majority is always the truth. That kind of confusion is a consequence of the nature of democracy as the least bad of all social systems. Democracy is a procedure and it works statistically. The truth does not have to be burdened by any numbers.

That which is Thomas Mann was a tragic minority in Germany in 1933, does not prevent us from seeing clearly who was where, even today. And where was truth and justice. As in the nineties, minority Montenegro was against the war. Today, everyone wants to present themselves as part of that minority of that time. But these "subsequent majorities" of ours are the real story of mentality.

Minority - majority, it is clear, is never a simple story. Every great and significant idea in the history of the world began as a decidedly minority one. Interestingly, when it ceased to be, it would usually lose its essence and transform into something else. The true history of the world would always be the history of minority ideas and movements inspired by them, that is, their metamorphoses. It is the minorities that carry the key meanings, about which you can occasionally read nice observations in the texts Gojko Celebić published by ART, whether it is about Prague Jews or Montenegrin medieval monks who represented a magnificent minority of literacy.

I like the insistence on the future in the Prime Minister's exposé and the accompanying statements of the politicians ("Blue, blue...": not that Future?). Although you have to be careful here. It always sounds nice, it looks like the so-called. "visionary", although in most cases the political story about the future is just a manipulative ornament.

In fact, I hope that this story about the future is not just a rhetorical refuge of those who cannot relate to the past. And all the riddles she left us. And which cannot be solved by the majority, but by a true approach.

This is not an apologetic to the newly elected minority government, after all, their only measure is - the next months. They will have to show both courage and vision, which Montenegrin governments have often lacked. In all this, my considerations about paradoxes in the minority-majority relationship will not be of any help to them. And I hope I can't even take a break from them. They have to experience every next day as an opportunity to show why this choice is good. Otherwise, they won't be able to convince anyone that it wasn't actually a scam or, worse, dilettantism. Their doing redeems or disqualifies them…

And that is the essence. Thanks to that, this government could have a slightly different attitude towards its own responsibility. And it would already be a significant shift for Montenegro.