"I come from a dizzyingly crazy country where the lottery is the most important component of reality..."
You must have recognized the sentence from Borges the ingenious story "The Lottery in Babylonia". You remember - this is a country where the lottery completely replaces reality, so both winnings and losses are won not by their own merit, but by mere drawing. So that everyone was both a master and a slave during his lifetime. Borges told a (very short) story in such a way that the lottery, as well as the company that organizes it (which no one is sure of anymore, neither what it is nor whether it exists at all), point to the same way that ideologies do throughout history. , religion or the state bureaucracy itself.
But how we got to the lottery is, in principle, the key question.
The idea that judges of the Constitutional Court are chosen by lot, that is, that the Constitutional Court of Montenegro is filled by a kind of personnel lottery, is only at first glance frivolous and crazy.
Let's talk right away - this kind of proposal is essentially deeply embarrassing for Montenegrin politicians and Montenegrin political culture. But, that endless orgy of political dilettantism in Montenegro makes an essentially bizarre idea seem quite rational. Even constructively. Perhaps it best describes where today's Montenegro is located.
First of all, the idea comes from a serious MP, one of the few who leaves such an impression in that colorful society. It is possible that such ideas are born out of desperation, since the European story in Montenegro is fundamentally shaken today, and apparently, even in the parliament there are those who want to act constructively. Despite everything.
Because if they had anything European in their opinion, the current MPs would easily solve all of this, and this clearly shows that this (European) story is not a real priority for almost anyone on the political scene. They have the greatest scope to project who will be accused (recognized, as they say) as the culprit for the failure of US judicial elections, not that judges are elected.
So, let's see, what would be the point of such a "lottery" in the current situation? Simple - to do what local politicians, for one reason or another, are unable to do. And that's why the lottery: the last stage of Montenegrin recognition of the sad and terrible (political) reality.
If the US judges are not chosen, the current political composition of the parliament would discredit itself in a way that is much more terrible and dangerous than simply shortening the mandate - by going to the so-called history with the well-deserved label of one of the most incompetent human groups with a political mandate of any kind in the disjointed and dynamic Montenegrin history.
Several times throughout its history, Montenegro has shown an astonishing talent for self-destruction. Those acts of self-destruction were so fierce that it is unlikely that they would have won such a huge loss through some kind of (Babylonian) lottery. Stupidity of such a size requires human material, there is no dice that can throw that far, that is - that low.
Finally, it is possible that this idea has a certain subversive potential. The entry of the spirit of the lottery into the Montenegrin political scene could have far-reaching consequences. Imagine if a citizen gets the idea to choose who to vote for with a personal lottery? (When patriarchs are elected like that, why not spiders.) Would that, and how much, change the local political scene?
And it would certainly contribute to removing the so-called mystical aura from Montenegrin current politics. important work, and clearly showed that it is all just one - a game.
Admittedly, in the Montenegrin way, somewhat different from the Babylonian one: a lottery with clear winners, who are repeated from draw to draw.
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