Written by: Đorđe Šćepović
You can’t argue with the truth. Never could. There’s no such thing as my truth, your truth, our truth, or their truth. There’s always just one truth, no matter how much we fool ourselves. If you’re too lazy to explore the truth, I recommend the Netflix series Zero Day. Sure, it’s a bit simplistic, but it’s short, so it won’t take up your time, which you don’t have. At the very end of this mini-series, the father refuses to compromise, even if the truth means losing his daughter and her freedom.
Anyway, when someone tells you we live in freedom and democracy, tell them they’re lying. Not like a dog, because dogs don’t lie, despite what people think. They lie like politicians. No one lies as blatantly as politicians. To be clear, politicians have always lied. But back then, at least they tried to blink when they lied. Today, they lie without any intention of their lies even resembling the truth. Because they can. Because they’re able to. Arrogant, crude, ruthless. They lie about everything. Mostly about their biographies. About their long experience in political and party prostitution.
Those who preach morality are the same ones who have betrayed their former selves and everything else for a piece of power. Take Montenegro, for example. Today, these people ask themselves: “Is this what we fought for?” Yes, of course it is. Lessons on ultimate freedom come from those who would send anyone with a different opinion to concentration camps. And anyone who dares to tell them the truth about themselves. Through their media puppets, they wage war on anyone they don’t control. They shoot, lynch, and brand anyone who doesn’t write fairy tales about them for bedtime. That’s democracy for you. Maybe we just don’t understand how freedom sings, so we feel entitled to talk about the regime, about traffic jams, about supermarket prices, about a humiliated and trampled country, or even slippers.
We take freedom lightly. Speech wasn’t given to us so we could just talk; it was given so we could sing the praises of our benefactors. Language must serve those in power, never truth and rebuke. After all, that’s what the Bible teaches us in the Epistle to the Romans: “Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities; for there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God. Therefore, whoever resists authority opposes the ordinance of God; and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves.” Maybe someone got their Bible reading seriously mixed up, because now power serves the Serbian Church. Or maybe the Serbian Church is the power today?
The Serbian Church might even sue me for this heresy. It wouldn’t be surprising. Since the shady Ž. N. threatens legal action and terrible judgment over the truth written about him; why wouldn’t his spiritual shepherds do the same? Because neither he nor they can argue with the truth. Especially not with their biographies, where it says they don’t love their neighbor but war criminals, mass murderers, whom they’ve declared either poets or saints.
Only in Montenegro can people without honor demand money for injury to their honor. Or for emotional pain, even though their soul, like Bećirov’s award-winning book, is nonexistent.
So, despite their efforts to scare us with courts and other institutions, we’re obliged to speak the truth. Always. Even about the shady Ž. N., Nemanja from Mokra Gora’s close confidant. And the courtly nonsense of the current regime, which calls the truth about itself “malicious nonsense.”
Only in literature can a shack be called a Turkish bath, and a chauvinist be called a citizen of the world.
Ž. N. knows this well, after all, he’s the literary guru of barely literate “poets with beards”.
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