As the elite, so the state: Chinese records (3)

(Continuation from last issue)

It is not by chance that they say in Montenegro, "when God wants to disfigure someone, he first takes away their intelligence". This means that when you want to destroy a society or a state, you first take away its elite. Because without an elite, society is beheaded. It loses its civilizational and cultural compass. Without a modern, educated elite, society is lost in time and space. In other words, it becomes an easy target for shooting, because there is no one to defend and develop the society.

Naturally, Montenegrin society had and still has great and elite individuals. Of global prestige. But here we are talking about the systematic creation and preservation of social and state values ​​and their permanent, thoughtful improvement on the life and scientific foundations that have proven successful in the prosperous world, as stated in the example of ancient, but also modern China.

Today's and "yesterday's" politics in our country clearly show that we are very lacking in elite personnel who know how to lead the country forward. And a society (state) without elite and moral personnel is doomed to stagnation and a silent death.

Politics has been “killed” in Montenegro. This situation constantly leads to outflow the beginnings of creating an elite. Because multi-party system needs to be prepared and adapted to society. In other words, it needs to be able to elevate society to the level of freedom without freedom turning into chaos.

Multi-party politics is not a recipe, but a necessary means to achieve the goal. If the elite does not prepare their (Montenegrin) society for "dissent", that society will easily slide into crime and corruption.

From another, more mundane perspective, the brain drain brain drain) the state, i.e. the budget, is losing significant funds from all the people of a society who have invested years in the education of these young and talented people.

On the third hand, skilled and large countries gain a young and educated elite for which they have not invested a single euro/dollar.

On the fourth hand, this elite almost never returns to Montenegro. They continue their lives abroad, embedding themselves and their potential in the new society.

Discretionary statistics of a neighboring country (Serbia) with its world-renowned Mathematical high school from Belgrade, says that for the period 1990 to 2008, as many as 63% of young talents never returned to that country. Except as tourists. (In Montenegro, such statistics are not kept.)

On the fifth (shocking) side, the Montenegrin media presents the outflow of the elite as a success and achievement (primarily) of the Montenegrin government and society in the sense that we too have a "strong asset" that is capable of working anywhere.

On the sixth side, a society without a young and educated elite is a society without a future. It ages quickly.

On the seventh side, the Montenegrin government manages ignorant and uneducated people most easily. (It stays in power more easily. There is no superior and modern criticism.)

From an eighth perspective, it is not excluded that such beheading of Montenegro could be someone's well-designed strategy towards Montenegro's ruin and disappearance.

On the other hand, the beheading of the state also has internal roots. Even from the top of the executive and legislative state authorities. But also municipal authorities.

Because the post-communist government in our country did not know and does not know how to think in terms of compromise and make decisions based on consensus, as the great reformist did. Deng Ksiao Ping.

Let us explain.

Deng Xiaoping did not “trample” on dogmatic politics Mao Ce Tonga. On the contrary. He left it as a historical, social, ideological and even cultural category that is still easily visible and alive in China today. There are as many red scarves around the necks of the youth as you want, Mao is on every denomination of the monetary unit called JuanThe Great Wall of Beijing is adorned with a huge slogan "Long live our great leader Mao Zedong".

Deng did not destroy Mao's communist factories, but rather elevated them to the level of workers' freedom and private enterprise.

Unlike us, in China the victors did not write history. They "assembled" it in history textbooks. They assembled it epoch by epoch. And they left the victor to judge the future of their new generations.

Here in Montenegro, everything was the opposite and devastating.

Montenegrin Puppet Theatre

Naturally, one should also take into account the rights of talented young people to leave Montenegro. But one must also take into account their reciprocal (financial and other) obligations towards their society. Because the right to leave does not exclude their obligation to return the financial resources that society - and that means every citizen of Montenegro - has invested in creating an elite individual.)

(Confucianism limited and even defended its national consciousness - they say ethnic consciousness - and its sovereignty by keeping its elite within China.)

It is very difficult to say that Montenegro is a normal state today. Or even a state at all. Rather, it would be said that it is a collection of various dysfunctional (horizontal and vertical) fiefdoms with their masters. Their power is most often in various international institutions, banks, "respectable" individuals, NGOs... and the like.

So, Montenegro is the closest thing to a puppet theater today, and Montenegrins are very greedy for power. Most often, without even knowing what that power is. That's why they are attracted to politics like a magnet, because they know that's where the power and money are.

The strength of the state government is primarily reflected in the creation, preservation and improvement of its educated (elite) staff. This can be administrative, sports, health, journalistic, literary, engineering or any other elite staff. It is not just about university scientific staff who, by their nature, should be mobile and global. (They are a special story, because they are generally a form of "weak backbone" and big the will for ambition, avarice, agony, a place in local history...)

So, the strength and power of the state comes from the spiritual infrastructure formed by the elite. (Censorship can be of great help here.)

In short: Like the elite, so is the state.

So, in the spiritual vertical of a nation, the elite plays a key and primary role. The construction of state institutions can be its masterpiece. But in our country, "neither the Devil nor the Lord God."

Institutions and the separation of powers serve to control power from multiple internal and external parties. (Let us recall only the mind Valtazar Bogišić, for example.)

The deeper level of Montenegrin suffering

A country that does not have an educated, courageous, and modern elite that does not know or does not want to "compress" its past and future, drags society towards stagnation or drags it backward.

The Montenegrin elite has not gone through the necessary filter of (scientific) censorship and has great difficulty in building state institutions. Its spiritual foundations are flawed, weak, anachronistic, and ideologized., politicized. Most often with a national look back, into the past and settling scores from centuries ago.

Our “elite” (that is, the institutional elite) has mostly passed through the filter ideological censorship (national, communist, religious, etc.). Even if the “institutional elite” is financially Interested in surviving in the "armchair", the collapse of Montenegrin society and the state is guaranteed.

Also, if this "elite" comes to office (power) from family hardship or poverty - which can be a common case in our country - such an "elite" can never be to get fed up with money and mandatesAnd it can last and remain in power for a very long time, especially if the "elite" is eloquent, young, arrogant and aggressive.

The power that has emerged from such an "elite" is similar or even identical. Together they form a synergy that easily destroys politics or keeps it under its control, its "umbrella".

There is no need to even talk about the morality of such "elites". That is a deeper level of Montenegrin suffering. More important, of course. Because morality is the litmus test of the state of mind and culture in a society. In it (morality) "everything" begins, but also ends.

Let's conclude.

Just as it was once mandatory to learn Russian and later English in schools and educate students in that direction, today we need to introduce mandatory learning of Chinese into our educational system. Because it is the language of the future.