"I am right. I'm always right. One time I thought I was wrong, I found out I was right."
Jerry Lee Lewis
I have to admit to you, right at the beginning, that on May 30, last Monday, I magnified with my presence what is officially called: the Electoral Assembly of the NGO Association of Architects of Montenegro - on which occasion we unanimously elected the new leadership of the SACG - headed by the president.. What was that guy's name, thank you God...
In the package with the president, we also elected a vice president, and three members and one member of the Board of Directors, along with the indispensable secretary.
For the most part, I stopped appearing at the architectural manifestations of the open type that are organized on the territory of Montenegro - our mother, glory to her and mercy - but Dunjica still managed to persuade me to certify that, name-election, name-assembly.
Dunjica is guilty. Dunjica intended to speak out "in front of everyone". Filip Aleksić - the oldest comrade of the mayor of Podgorica, and the chief architect of the Capital City of Podgorica, and at the same time the president of SACG in the previous convocation - for some money, which Filip allegedly owed her, on account of Dunjica's involvement in SACG in the past period.
Dunjica waited for Filip to remind the attendees (12 architects signed up on the list of attendees - plus the chairman and his faithful project coordinator) of the great achievements of SACG during his presidency - and then she showered trees and stones on him.
I'm not saying that I wasn't uncomfortable - mainly because of Filip - who I even like in his attempts to be serious, should we not take him seriously even beyond the function of the mayor's oldest friend.
Joking aside, I don't feel that there is room to improve things, regarding Philip's seriousness, on the vertical plane - and as for the horizontal plane, it is clear that Philip is accumulating experience and slowly expanding his collection of cheap political tricks - which is to say that he diligently learns from less likable, but therefore significantly more nimble and unscrupulous colleagues in Vuković's first position at the Capital City Administration.
Tell me, have you ever been registered in SACG? - asks Filip Dunjica. It turned out that I wasn't - says Dunjica - but not through my own fault. You told me you would report me, but you never did. So you don't have a booklet? - Philip was persistent, etc.
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Anyway, come on, I said, let's verify those shameful achievements of the SACG in the past period on the official website of the SACG (sacg.me).
When there... Nothing.
Famous (Rifatov) Statute of the SACG from way back in 2012, Report on the work of the SACG 2012, and the Financial Report of the SACG 2012 - that's all I dug up at the mentioned address, under the About SACG/Documents tab. Which means that we, as a profession, are in serious regression.
I seriously doubt that there is any historical record of action Nebojše Adžić in the position of the first man of SACG - in the period between 2012 and 2017 - and I doubt that in the last five years Filip felt the need and/or obligation to leave some kind of mark worth mentioning behind him.
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So, if we consider that I certified the selection of the fifth line-up of the SACG last Monday, May 30 - and I must admit, I also certified the historic moment of the selection of the fourth line-up of the SACG, on July 7, 2017, in the basement of the Hotel "Ljubović" ( or whatever that hotel was called at that time) - to which I have devoted an entire text - I am in a unique position to point out some parallels and draw some conclusions.
Architects today - said the newly elected president of SACG on July 7, 2017 in the basement of a hotel that no longer exists - earn less than masons and ceramicists - and admit, unprovoked, that it often happens that he has to borrow 20 euros from a car mechanic - and to us, who-knows-why we happened to be in that basement, suddenly our eyes opened. We saw and realized the terrible extent of the degradation of the architectural and urban planning profession in Montenegro - and we wondered if there is a cure.
Well, it turns out that there is no cure - maybe because none of us was willing to do anything about any important issue in the past period.
God is my witness that, after all, it was a bit of a mistake to give Filip Aleksić 20 euros - but I estimated that Filip would surely have missed the meaning of that gesture.
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In the text that appeared on July 15, 2017, in this same place - under the title "Bizarre gathering in the hotel basement" - I said that it would be best if "all of us who (...) witnessed the historical rape of the pure virgin architecture of foreign united brothers in the basement of the former Hotel "Ljubović" in Podgorica - as well as everyone who was smart enough not to appear in that basement that evening - let's try to forget those gruesome scenes - because there is no way, I'm afraid, to influence the new brothers to turn away from the road that leads nowhere".
And I also said that "it turned out that that evening, in that basement, we significantly expanded the boundaries of nonsense in which the Croatian architectural and urban planning profession has been drowning for years and decades", and that every time we expand the boundaries of nonsense - in any area - we immediately feel the urge to keep expanding those extended borders of nonsense...
As for the new line-up at the head of the SACG - I would like, before the verdict is pronounced, to see the plan and program of their activities - they owe us at least that much - but if we start from the fact that the new president did not tell us anything about the plan and program at the Election Session - he mostly spoke to the grandiose personal sacrifice that, it seems, was necessary in order to preserve the poor illusion that the architectural and urban planning profession in Montenegro is organized - then I am not far from stating that we will continue, as a profession, in the direction of further stretching the incredibly stretchable boundaries of nonsense. But still, let's give that team time...
And finally - I must state that the so-called the president of the so-called SACG, which we chose last Monday - and unanimously - did not invite us to a drink after the so-called Electoral assembly - which would cost about twenty euros, approximately - because I am convinced that at least half of the delegates would not accept the invitation...
It's a shame, God, that one euro and a half I spent on fuel to UDG and back last Monday...
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