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Economy and national pride of Montenegro

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Montenegro appears to have remained trapped in the transition period following the fiasco of the socialist system. The consequences of this captivity led to the creation of a favorable environment for the development of the crown economy and poltronism. Poltronism, as experienced by the author of these lines, is the absence of self-awareness or the idea of ​​one’s own value in an individual. The problem of lack of self-awareness can develop in several directions. However, the most important direction is the one in which the absence of the idea of ​​one’s own value serves politicians as a mechanism of control over individuals, and even over the whole society.

The current practice of employment in state-owned companies has proven to be a perfect mechanism for that control. Political parties would often use state-owned enterprises as their own headquarters to employ those who would be loyal to the party and those who would be able to secure at least a few secure votes. Thus, companies that should operate positively, at least because of their monopoly position, have become unprofitable by overproducing political jobs. Financial, and often existential, dependence on political parties has made the lives of many like captives within a system in which the truth is subordinated exclusively to the party they represent. The current divisions and intolerance that prevail in society are nothing but the consequences of the aforementioned system. That is why the news of the shutdown of the national airline was met with much resentment by one part of society because they saw it as a blow to the national pride of Montenegro and the desire of the newly formed government to subordinate the state to another state, which is “truth” used by some political party. All these are, of course, nonsense that are built on the idea of ​​poltronism, and the desire to continue maintaining the financial dependence of a good part of society.

There is a common misconception among citizens, due to weaker economic literacy, that the state is in possession of some of its own money that it can easily manage without compromising the economic stability of society as a whole. Such a fallacy has led to significant economic consequences and costs that will, no doubt, be passed on to all future generations. Maintaining national pride has so far cost the state several billion euros, and perhaps the best indicator of this wastefulness can be seen in the enormous increase in public debt in recent years. Although the increase in public debt is not a necessary indicator of bad economic decisions, in this case it is precisely because the state has been borrowing for years in order to be able to maintain the entire bureaucratic and political machinery it manages.

For Montenegro Airlines alone, a national airline with a fleet of six planes and 359 employees – at least according to official figures, the previous government planned to set aside 155m euros in taxpayer money, or just over 3% of GDP. The final outcome of the collapse of Montenegro Airlines is a consequence of the political management of this company, and the increasing abuse at their expense, and not the inability of this company to better position itself in the market. Even the newly formed government is not immune to such wastefulness. In addition to the announcement of the maintenance of state-owned companies, albeit with the management they choose, the announcement of new economic policies aimed at the so-called the purchase of social peace, that is, in other words, economic policies aimed at providing political sedation. There are every chance that even in times of crisis, the maintenance of a cumbersome public sector will continue, and that all public attention will be focused on identity issues that continue to divide society into those who are “FOR the preservation of Montenegro” and those who are “AGAINST the existence of Montenegro.” Upstairs “- no matter how crazy it was.

If, by any chance, the current politicians become aware and understand that the path they have taken undoubtedly leads to the abyss, then they should think of alternative ways to avoid it. One of these alternative paths is the path of “painful” reforms, which implies the renunciation of political control over state-owned enterprises and the liberation of the state from the crown economy and poltronism. Liberation from the crown economy means strengthening the institutional framework that will provide equal conditions for competition to each individual, while liberation from poltronism means allowing each individual to be financially independent, and to have complete freedom to be critical of any act of disobedience. from people from his environment (or party), or someone else. It is the only way we can provide a healthy society in which national pride is not measured by the love and loyalty shown to one party, but by what each of us has done to make this society better.

Source: talas.rs

 

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