There's something of the newly popular voodoo spirituality (which I wrote about last Saturday) in the disappearance of a convicted criminal. Fortune-telling, now the mysterious disappearance of a man? If it's not voodoo, what is it? Although he disappeared for the police, the young criminal in question suddenly appeared on a live TV show. And that clearly, understandably, upset the minister in the studio.
In the meantime, we learned that the state of Montenegro and its police apparatus do not possess the famous nanopods, although this means of control was included in the letter of the law back in 2009, if I understand correctly.
Don't be so heartless, please - as if that's the only thing that exists in Montenegro in law, but not in reality. Reality can sometimes be more complicated than legal formulations. And more expensive. When you throw around words, it, in principle (currently) costs nothing, and everything else has a price.
Expensive gimmicks or cheap demagogy? Or - simply, the incompetence of all authorities. Even those of the past, which, from this perspective, seem somewhat more organized, and that may have given the impression of a more serious government, but I wouldn't rush into such conclusions. It's all the same pattern, as they used to say...
The discomfort of the Minister of Internal Affairs in a television studio always seems refreshing and interesting... In the one-party era, you couldn't see that, ministers always seemed to know exactly what they were talking about, careful about what impression they would make, democracy was not something valued, although it was present in the laws - just like this nano-girl today.
The only time we could see any discomfort on the minister's face was when the famous Mehmed Malici, Kosovo's Secretary of Internal Affairs (that's what it was called), in the TV Belgrade studio (that's what it was called), after the so-called irredentist demonstrations (that's what it was called) in Pristina, in the early eighties, he took off his legendary dark glasses - which he never took off. The host of the show told him - They say you only take off your glasses when you get angry... And the whole country was retelling it the next day, as the ultimate triumph of free journalism. Still, Malići was a person, a leftist and a partisan, let's get back to ours...
Or will salvation be sought again in linguistic stunts. Today, when a politician deceives you, he throws at you some catchphrase, some loser's mantra, most often linguistically impossible and meaningless.
Is the escape of a convicted criminal perhaps a “situational event” (my favorite among deceptive phrases) or is there some kind of conspiracy? Who is behind it? That is the question that Montenegrins love the most. Our people sincerely love conspiracy theories - it comes to them like a cake they cannot resist and without which every meal is poorer.
There is also the battle over Sunday - to work or not, that is the question.
How gloriously boring were the Sundays of my childhood...
After 10 o'clock, when you could buy bread and milk, there's no one anywhere. If there's an important match, there's a bit of a crowd around lunchtime, but then again - calm down and be bored.
Sunday. A mythical day, in fact, a halo that has lost its meaning. The reason for Sunday's special status is purely religious. So - a deception from the beginning. Then, they say, God rested. As if the Almighty could get tired.
I believe that it was more necessary for the law to provide fairer compensation for workers who work on Sundays. Here, however, tried and tested demagogy was at work. As a concern for workers? After all, many have worked on Sundays up until now.
This society is threatened by a dangerous disappearance, but not of a single day off, or of a notorious criminal, but much more sinister - the disappearance of all responsibility and even the idea of responsibility. That is exactly what is happening, before our eyes. That is why politicians on TV shows seem increasingly pathetic to you...
Here, politicians only mention responsibility while they are in opposition; as soon as they come to power, they are no longer interested in it. That is why things are happening the way they are.
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