The Pope died recently. The Pope who was loved by many, not by force, not out of awe, was loved by many because he won them over by being different, spontaneous and his own. His death and funeral, the manner of the funeral, is a big deal, and the eyes of the whole world were of course focused on Rome and the Vatican. White smoke was expected. Montenegro watched all of this from the sidelines, as if through binoculars, across the sea, without specific shows that have guests who know something about the subject to speak. It's all reporting on reporting.
Too provincial for a country that is, one might say, the closest, a stone's throw away. But we had more pressing matters to attend to, we have people in cafes who know everything, but we don't have people to go on TV and talk about anything concrete. The former Twitter, the current X, they just know everything about everything there. But as always. One-way. We have a pose, we have theorists, we don't have practice.
In Istanbul, at the junction of two continents, negotiations between Ukraine and Russia have begun. Something is brewing, something big, it's not a new Yalta, but it's not that it's not. We only have a short news item about it in the daily newspaper, which barely gets its due after all the spitting from local politicians, roadblocks, arrests and postponed trials. We pretend that what is being done there in Istanbul doesn't concern us, because we don't know much about it. On the other hand, we think we are the navel of the world, that everything revolves around Montenegro, but we have no proof of that. None.
I'm afraid to think what we're talking about. Regardless of editorial policy, differences in reporting, ideology and worldview, it's sad that the most read news on all portals in Montenegro is always the same. It coincides. Spitting, politics, murders, thefts, scandals and embezzlement. But all the news is local, as a rule the most read texts do not concern world events. There is not even that idea of "think globally, act locally". Everything is exclusively local.
We haven't finished a single war. Dušan Kovačević is right (not that one!). Everything goes on, everyone is right, everyone is smart. But a few years ago, a revolution happened that we don't seem to be aware of at all. We will only understand how artificial intelligence is progressing and changing the world when the world has changed completely. And it is already on the right track. People are using tools extensively, a huge number of people in the next ten years will be doing jobs that have not yet been invented and do not exist. That doesn't sound spooky or crazy, it is real.
There are (fortunately) generations coming who don't dwell much on what was. They are focused on the future, and they live in the present. But they live to the fullest. They are mocked for eating avocado toast for breakfast, wearing oversized clothes, and they are actually carrying out a revolution. They easily skip over everything that is marketed to them. They develop a special way of communicating. And they know very well what they are doing and distinguish good from bad. Until they take over the helm, we will continue to be the outback, not the navel.
Information is like food, it can be good for a person, but it can also be junk food. We are poisoned by media pesticides every day. Bile and misery, day after day. Vision becomes blurred, and aggression increases. A Chinese proverb says “Don't read books for three days and your words will lose their beauty”. If we apply that to Montenegro, it would be: “Feed yourself with the most read articles from the portal for three days and you will quarrel with 90 percent of the people you know”.
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