By Andrej Nikolaidis, CdM columnist
What’s wrong with the representatives of the so-called, as Andrija Mandic calls it, “traditional Montenegro”? Why do these people whine and lie all the time, when neither crying nor lying, no matter how you put it, even upside down, are part of traditional Montenegrin values? They the fuck are not.
One of them went to Kosovo to show off, and when the police approached him, he mourned for himself and repeated through tears that he had had a surgery. I understand: one – that’s what we are, what can you do – cannot feel as sorry as for oneself. Everyone feels sorry for themselves. He who cannot stand for himself cannot stand for others either. But what does that have to do with tradition?
The other one, Dajko, loses the elections in Berane and sheds tears as if a bus with seminary students ended up in the Moraca river.
The third one, Andrija, wherever he goes in the world and whatever foreigner he meets, he speaks things he does not mean. In Sweden, he defended Ukraine against the Russians. What happened with the face-to-face thing? What happened with the thing that he was supposed to say directly, at any cost? When you sit down with a stronger perosn, you tell him not what you think, but what you think he wants to hear – is that traditional Montenegro?
The question is why is that so?
Do these people watch Pink TV too much, which constantly plays songs in which men lament over women having left them?
It is not easy to be a woman in our country. You must not leave a man: you never know if he will try kill himself. In traditional Montenegro, people had no time for love woes. It was like the Bosnian one that I’m paraphrasing: everyone is replacable. Today, they cry, drink, break glasses, climb on the table, listen to music that plays songs that remind them of their lost love. Or, in the worst case, they go and kill the woman who dared to leave them, so beautiful, smart and manly.
In traditional Montenegro, those from the Front would look at Ervin and Nik through a gunpoint, and not sit in the same government, where they have a time of their lives. And they tried hard to join it. And yet they keep talking about “traditional Montenegro”.
And they are not the only ones. It is a global trend. Take Trump for example. He protects traditional American values. He gathered a conservative base. Finally, he is an ardent defender of the Bible and Christianity. This man paid prostitutes while his wife was pregnant. Where did he learn that? It is not from the Bible. Although what he did, from a certain perspective, may seem conservative. If he wasn’t Christian and conservative, he could have paid male prostitutes.
Or take Putin for instance. He is a defender of the Orthodox tradition. The right wing of the whole world sees in him and in Russia a barrier to what they call “liberal madness”. And then Putin wins the election and cries. Bebek would say: he shed one tear, a man’s tear, the heaviest. And then one more. And one more…
What can you do. This is how every glorious tradition ends: by being passionately advocated by those who are living proof of its death.
(The opinions and views of the columnist are not necessarily those of the CdM editorial staff)
