We got another category of those who are dissatisfied with their place in society, and the government's attitude towards them. Someone else saw it, the cynic will say.
In addition to endangered raspberry growers, policemen, pensioners, miners, workers in textile (and all other industries), educators, postmen, artists have recently been standing proudly in that row, of course. Several art associations entered into a clinch with the ministry over some coefficients and the like. Of course, this kind of public protest is for everyone's joy, whoever it comes from, let alone an artist. No less, no more.
In current statements, we often hear questions about the "importance of artists in society". It appears as a topic exclusively on the occasion of some kind of strike (in the announcement) or guessing about the coefficient. That topic has never been in Montenegro naturally on the agenda. What is the reason for that?
Perhaps in the earlier decades, the artists themselves too easily agreed to the various dictates of the so-called higher forces. On those Critis "historical apparitions". Maybe they were too soft on the Power. Too willing to be available. Decoration of historical pictures and occasions. Quite often, the most "unaesthetic" public actions were created in the minds of our artists, and, of course, sponsored by politicians.
The healthiest is a society in which politicians tremble at artists, and not the other way around. And they should be aware of that in their (justified, certainly) rebellion.
From those Montenegrin artists who were not "gentle" towards the authorities (in all eras, not from yesterday), you could hardly put together a basketball five, and don't even think about the football team.
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We heard minister Adzic, says that they can't assemble even one unit of really reliable policemen...
Ask yourself, everything else aside - do you trust him on this. I don't think there is a citizen who has heard this wording without thinking that it is true. It sounds creepy, really, but the craziest part is that everyone knows that's just the way things are. And it sounds creepy just saying it.
It's as if there is a mental tendency to believe that a policeman is always something else. Here, throughout history, all the police and similar institutions were primarily ideological (or dynastic) guards. Again, that line between cop and criminal is one of those lines that has always been fluid, unclear, sometimes inscrutable. And everything that has always been, in the postmodern era has become - painfully clear.
However, if there were no corrupt cops, the crime genre would not exist. And these days, in the neighborhood of the troubles that the Minister of Police is talking about, we also have a new genre - the prosecutor's soap opera. Who Called Who at Midnight... And it's not a romantic comedy.
Why was someone not arrested, and someone else was... That is the main dilemma and the most important question in Montenegro today.
Can Montenegro be governed solely by arrests and demolitions? Looks like it can. You should never underestimate the elements of the spectacle, politics is the closest to people when it resembles a movie or TV series, and the clearest when it resembles a gladiatorial fight with shouts that shake the entire arena. People simply love that kind of spectacle. remember, Vucic started with the arrest of a tycoon...
The popular (almost voluptuous) cry "Hapsi Dritana", in the imagination of the people, makes the young prime minister in a technical mandate a kind of resurrected (postmodern) Leka Ranković. That is, a mythical policeman who has several arrest warrants ready in every pocket. It doesn't matter to anyone that it's not his job, but here, an apparent arrest brings a healthy respect, not to mention love. Don't doubt that a "good" Montenegrin will come in between Beria i Villa Branta, say, always choose this first one. With some perverse (and of course incorrect) explanation of the type - At least he didn't kneel...
I would bet that he will be in the government after the elections on June 11 Abazovic to be the Minister of Police. Well deserved, no doubt. Show must go on.
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