Today's Montenegro is a country devoid of thoughtful politics: everything takes place in a peculiar investor's flash that brings people a packaged fantasy (to take away) and politicians an active illusion, which primarily appears as a media carousel and a colorful fair of political vanity.
And where nothing has to be, everything is possible...
This seems to be a time of fierce action, characters have taken flight like heroes of so-called action movies. A little shooting, a little politics, a little business fantasy... The fairgrounds are suffering, as is the cinema screen. Whoever wrote the script, it looks like a new Bond sequel.
Almost everything in these dynamic days has been overshadowed by Mandic Younger in action. Is there a more devastating situation for a politician than when his bodyguard shoots people and pretends to be a dangerous criminal? The detail that the shooting bodyguard is a close relative adds only one, almost traditional moment, a local spice, which clearly shows that party nominations in Montenegro mean so little: character and mentality similarities prevail, always. That's why it always seems to you that the government suddenly makes them all similar/the same.
The epic matrix always prevails: light weapons and flashy swag still make these people. Only this is not epic fantasy, but naked epic realism.
Do you believe that the Speaker of Parliament will Mandic understand what would be honorable for him to do? (With the discomfort of memory: isn't it naive to expect honorable/responsible action from a warrior of darkness from the nineties?)
Judging by the strategy they chose to defend the shooter - and in fact the defense of a hard-won political fiefdom - and that is denial, and to the extreme, it is unlikely. It will again be that someone hates Serbs and does not allow Serbs to be equal. Although it is difficult to imagine someone's deficit of equality while rampaging through the city in a state jeep and with a state gun in his hand... Some other deficits, I admit, are easier to imagine in such a situation.
One of the current action heroes of the week is the Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church Porphyry.
Is there a more devastating situation for a clergyman than when he goes to a politician for instructions, to the feet of Power. No matter how much it is in accordance with the tradition of the church he leads. We have seen how the Serbian Patriarch is trying his best to court Putin"A patch found a patch," would probably be the most accurate explanation of that encounter. And they agreed.
Still, it is astonishing how contrary this attitude towards the authorities is to the spirit of original Christianity. Many will object to me - why, as an atheist, that is, someone who is not a believing Christian although he belongs to that very tradition, I deal with these matters, or explain to a patriarch that what he is doing has nothing to do with Christianity. (Here I would like to quote the great Serbian poet Đuro Jakšić, but that will take us far.)
The Serbian Patriarch speaks of Montenegro as his church fiefdom. Although Montenegro is a secular state, he can... Why? You could call such actions occupation logic, you wouldn't be wrong.
A Sweetie The Prime Minister is traditionally in action. (He has already saved Montenegro more times than Bruce Willis world.) That genre has always attracted him. Is there a more devastating situation for a politician than when he is swindling people whom he convinces are not only profitable, but also smart. (Gold coins drip easily from the lips, but they are somewhat more difficult to get into the pockets. At least people will learn that.)
I don't get the impression that any of the actors in these action-packed fairground attractions, which are as different as they are painfully similar, are uncomfortable.
Mandić is happy that now he too can behave like the former DPS kabadahija, Porfirije is happy that he is just a humble and obedient civil servant of the current Serbian dictator, and Prime Minister Spajki is happy - born. Like that Cakani Caja from Disney comics...
When the heroes of our time are like this, imagine what kind of era we've just fallen into. What a cheap fair. And fairground magicians...
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