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Traditional Christmas debate at UDG

Traditional, twenty-fifth in a row, Christmas debates were held on January 6 at UDG. Host and founder of Christmas debates is Professor Veselin Vukotic, who organizes the event each year on Christmas Eve for 25 years already. The concept of the debates entails new topic each year, and the host invites 3-4 eminent guest speakers from the field in concern. All guests have opening statements up to 17 minutes, followed by questions from the audience. Discussion then continues in the Student Club, along with "food and drinks", until dawn! The theme of this year's Christmas debates was "Globalization and isolationism". The guests were: Dusan Janjic, PhD, Institute of Social Sciences, Belgrade, Marija Vukotic, PhD, University of Warwick, United Kingdom; Olivera Injac, PhD, University of Donja Gorica (UDG), Podgorica, and Dejan Miletic, Center for Globalization Studies, Belgrade.

The attractiveness of the topic has raised many questions from the audience after the guest’s speeches. Two events were in focus of the host and the guest speakers: Brexit and the new elected president of USA.

 

The host, professor Vukotic, pointed out that civilizations collapsed when they entered the zone of self-satisfaction, e.i. the zone of bureaucracy. According to his words, bureaucracy brings routine and diminishes innovation and the creation of new thought. “I also know that with the downfall of civilizations, which happened 35 times in the history of homo-sapience, the homo-sapience does not cease to exist, neither does the man. What disappears in only that whose time has run out.” As he pointed out, the main characteristic of today’s civilization is bureaucracy and the only thing produced nowdays is the public debt. Current public debt of Montenegro amounts to around EUR 2.5 billion or over 60% of GDP. Public debt is appropriation of revenues from the future, if there are any. It leads to the lost of innovation and new thought, the new ideas are suppressed”, said professor Vukotic.

 

 

Retor of UDG, professor Vukotic, also commented the recent victory of Donald Tramp at the presidential election in the USA: “Tramp won with a slogan – “me, not us”. By us, he meant political party. Is his victory the signal of the end of partitocracy, the monopoly of political parties? Is it the introduction to new form of democracy, because this one has lost its strength?” were some of the questions professor Vukotic raised.

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