The armchairs of their youth

If we are to believe the recently deceased film director and screenwriter David Lynch, terrible things happen to us because we are full of fear. We are full of fear because our reality has long since become psychedelic! The distorted perception and all sorts of illusions of our social herd are responsible for its favorite hallucinogens - politics, nationalism, religion and sensationalism. When we separate ourselves from the media and social networks for a little while, and when these psychedelics briefly cease their effect, then the essence becomes more obvious to us and our consciousness becomes more restless. But, unfortunately, in the Balkans, identity drug addiction is a hereditary disease.

Mistakes in our political events are often justified by some "higher", imaginary goals that need to be achieved in the name of a certain community. This alleged "objective innocence" best indicates how certain politicians have not actually moved beyond their primary biological structure or how little distinguishes them from other animal creatures. Responsibility indicates the (non)existence of someone's humanity! Although they are competing to have media reports and their posts on social networks present them as believers, moralists, traditionalists, promoters of EU integration and the like, these alleged representatives of the people should first understand that their public exhibitionism cannot be a substitute for the values ​​​​according to which humanity, including social responsibility, develops. Through stability in work and dedication, moderate behavior and appropriate treatment of others, striving to achieve harmony and avoid unnecessary conflicts, as well as developing awareness (to think carefully before speaking and to embody, or do, what is said) one creates not only one's own personality, but also the quality of the community in which one lives and acts.

Since our bizarre present has crushed both emotion and aesthetics, because due to its interest there is no time to listen and read, now we no longer have a society but a human group. Due to the absence of empathy and a decent attitude towards others, as well as the absence of good taste and the need to learn, we have an existential circus today. Under the political tent in Montenegro, its staged scene is taking place, which seeks to trivialize everything and thereby arouse all the worst in our people.

However, the movement of the informal group of students "Where are you tomorrow" may symbolize the beginning or will itself induce the evolution of our brutal political system. The poisonous particocracy and leadership snobbery of all these years, both before and after August 30, 2020, have sought to turn Montenegro into a desperate melancholic on the verge of idiocy. Young activists who want to achieve improved public safety in Montenegro are, for now, sympathetically and without complaint, restoring meaning to its political life. How?

We have a dangerous situation and a political conflict that wants to cause apathy among citizens, as well as a total collapse of the state organization.

The criminal political elites, both in power and in opposition, continue to live from election to election and homogenize or scare their voters with rhetoric that resembles a broken record. Of course, in these "skippings" they do not spare words about their national threats. The newly formed and supposedly civic parties comically glorify their instant successes even if they know that these attempts essentially have nothing valuable in them. Even more, not that they do not try to design continuous and conscientious, or professional public engagement, but they deepen the idiocy, wastefulness and closedness of the institutions that they found from the previous three-decade camarilla. Therefore, this civic protest at a time of constitutional crisis and uncertainty of public finances completely achieves the exposure of the inaction, incompetence, hidden ambitions and immorality of the current political elites. When the nation asks, "Who is responsible for the tragedies in Cetinje?", the essence of the answer will not only be in determining the circumstances and removing the reasons for which these mass murders took place, but the path of this process will allow to find some other, hidden hubs of our corrupt reality. The responsibility of the authorities is often combined with the influence of those who tacitly keep certain information or have informal powers that are equally necessary for those in power and those in the opposition. Our endangered lives need to know who the callous guardians of our destinies are!

Then, in the case of a continuous mass uprising, other suppressed issues are also opened. Covered-up scandals and unjustly forgotten cases of human rights violations surface on the wave of rebellious citizens. These problems are often not emphasized during election campaigns or are simply forgotten after coming to power, although their alleged solution was emphasized in the pre-election agenda. The answers and attitudes to these problems condition the image of responsibility to crystallize in the public and eventually certain concrete solutions to be profiled.

In the end, if promises are not fulfilled to citizens and they are constantly being given some justifications or even scared with something, as the current political majority with DPS does (and with the same rhetoric that this political entity once directed at some of them), then on the political stage you have either ignorance or madness or fraud! Whichever of these three is in use, it is evident that in Montenegro we have a dangerous situation and a political conflict that wants to cause apathy and powerlessness among our citizens, as well as a total collapse of the state organization.

This, the second student protest since the introduction of multi-party politics in Montenegro, is developing political culture among the younger generation, but it also encourages the development of awareness of the necessity of a moderate and decisive civil rebellion. In our very turbulent democracy, whose peddlers of fog have been sowing chauvinistic poison and reaping hatred among their fellow citizens for decades, there are still young people who have been ennobled by these troubles and who have not become resentful like some of their generationally close colleagues in power. It is nice to hear, under the monument to Nikola Mirkov in Podgorica, sincere student speeches that, through their youthful simplicity, convey that there is both a desire and strength that wants to fundamentally change and initiate something.