Vanity

Every year, same story. Even that would be enough for a smart person to understand what it is about. This year too, we had an ecstasy of empty rhetoric, and on the occasion of the Eighth of March. Year after year - the same wording, the same promises, the same and equally empty rhetoric. As if that will verbal ventilation that politicians can afford to change anything in the position of women on March 8. They are still paid less, they are still victims of domestic violence, they are discriminated against on various grounds, in the end even existentially: it is still advertised here - early determination of the sex of the newborn... So, this society shows itself to be fundamentally anti-women and anti-emancipatory, but, on March 8 every year, everyone, at least for one day, pretends that it's not like that. And another interesting and telling detail: in that empty and self-deluding rhetoric, all parts of the political spectrum are in agreement, they understand each other perfectly and without conflict, they all sound the same.

It is similar with peer violence. From case to case, some media dust is raised, some institutions are also announced, but when did that mean anything in Montenegro? Again, only a series of declarative condemnations, which look completely silly and foolhardy. And as if they guarantee that this problem will not be taken seriously by society.

Wasn't this vanity in exclusively rhetorical condemnations the cause of this kind of escalation of violence among young people.

One could almost say - that vanity feeds the phenomenon that it "criticizes" in that way. That kind of superficiality in thinking and doing turns reality itself into a sad parody. Vain politics cannot produce a different discourse.

One more thing should not be underestimated - young people are like cats in this matter - they are the first to smell the decay of a society, and that is exactly why all kinds of brakes are released.

Osborne spoke and wrote about "angry young people" in the fifties, after that came the time when film and literary anti-heroes alternated, and, not least, when the best actors and musicians made fun of the most powerful politicians...

In one way or another, everyone told that eternal story about young people who are standing at the gate of real life and are scared, confused, so much so that sometimes violence can seem to them, if not a way out, and it is a universal language.

But forget all that. We live the disintegration of all great and beautiful illusions. Hanging and savagely beating peers - because of a shirt you don't like, or because of women's company - is a terrible symptom, behind which the fragments of a former value system are visible.

Remember those young people, they were also underage so-called. transition winners, who once had their picture taken with that T-shirt with a warm and explicit message for the "poor". This "elite" is like this and that, we will see that, but there is no doubt that the upbringing of their children was not easy...

The problem, of course, is deeper. The "offer" of social role models gives you the most accurate portrait of an era.

Because, what else can young people who grow up with reality shows where killers and sponsors are the main characters think and do, but also with politics where fraudsters are the most common phenomenon. Such is the nature of media civilization - the number of likes does not bring meaning, but attraction. And that matter would be decided.

With today's media stars and social role models, it sounds incredible that there were generations whose media heroes were characters like Robert Fischer, Ernesto Guevara, Melina Mercuri, Muhammad Ali, John Lennon, Oriana Fallaci...

We are left with empty messages and ineffective condemnations of "everything that is reprehensible", which we hear from those who no longer even understand reality. Definitely - we are living the time of "revealing" the true face of a freakish elite. That's why the scenes we see are so ugly, that's why registers of nastiness reach so high.