By Andrej Nikolaidis, CdM columnist
Do you know the story about Vasa Ladacki?
And a man’s question, the central philosophical question of patriarchy – is it better to have a big one or a technician? The answer is obvious: the best are both to be big and a technician. But: what if yours is not big, and you’re not a technician – which, let’s face it, often happens – so from that fact arises the false dilemma in question, similar to that of a cocoon who, sitting on a crate of beer in front of with a village store, with his colleagues squeezing phallic beer pistols, discusses whether it’s better for you to have a million euro on a bank account or invest that money in real estate right away.
However: when yours is neither big nor a technician?
Then you’re a “good man”. And as you know, it’s the most important thing.
There’s a similar dilemma in politics as well. What’s better? A competent government that may, for the sake of efficiency, enter the legal gray areas and, possibly, suffer from a lack of democratic legitimacy – like, say, the European Commission? Or a less competent, possibly mediocre, possibly very bad government that is, after all, an authentic democratic expression, the result of a pure electoral process? The answer is clear: it’s best that there is no government.
But, what if the government is neither competent nor democratic?
It’s the ‘European’ one. Like ours.
We had Zdravko’s, the pro-Chetnik government, which didn’t want to take part in the Great Serbia/Great Albania Open Balkans. And which didn’t want to sign the Fundamental Agreement with the Serbian Church.
Now we have the government which does nothing except for pushing us into the Open Balkans, kneeling before Porfirije and promising that it’s going to sign the capitulation of the country to his church. What kind of government is that? Ultra-mega-mega-Serbian?
No way. Didn’t we say it was ‘European’.
How is this government preparing us for ‘European integration’? By harmonizing us with North Macedonia, Albania and Serbia. While they are telling us that we’re going to play in the Champions League in three years, they’re preparing us for the competition in the Second League – East, where we’re going to be a lantern.
Viktor Ivancic brilliantly noted that the European Union is a museum of abandoned European values. When the EU becomes the museum of that museum, the fossil fuel of history, therefore, management of that metamuseum will give Macedonia, Albania, Serbia, and with them Montenegro, which is already in the Open Balkans, but not formally (which you can thank DPS and SDP – who agreed that the decision on that should be made by the “Montenegrin” government in which Serbia has a majority, while Montenegro is represented by a minority) – the management of that museum will, therefore, promise our countries a “clear European perspective”.
Gabriel Escobar, for example, says he’s pretty sure Montenegro will be the next EU member state. I am, on the other hand, quite sure – and correct me if I’m wrong – that I’ve been hearing for thirty years that we’re soon to enter the EU. But why would we draw conclusions based on our own experience and reason? If they show us the carrot, we will go for the carrot again, regardless of the fact that we see the rope and the stick to which it’s attached, as well as the hand holding the stick. It’s called hope. And they say, it drives the world. And, at the same time, it’s the answer to why our world is like this.
The belief that one same procedure repeated under the same circumstances will result in a different outcome than all previous times is not called hope. There’s another name for it.
