Written by: Ndue Ukaj
Kosovo indeed has deep and historical disputes with Serbia, especially with the gangs in the north, but its biggest and most serious problems are with itself, with its political abnormality, with its poor political culture, that is, with its own crisis, which is political poverty. This poverty is miraculously nourished and maintained.
And it is known exactly who maintains it and in whose favor it goes.
Our country has abandoned the path of normality and is led without any ideas or vision. It is led by daily impulses and improvisations, which scream and are best reflected in the overall stagnation of our country, in the huge holes that have opened up inside and outside it.
Relations between domestic politics and relations with the West have deteriorated.
As a result, ignorance flourishes like nothing else, a polarizing, savage language, and populations that make a normal person feel bad even if they were to hear them in another corner of the world and not in their own country.
This language, not that it does not bring progress or happiness to the people of this country, but I am firmly convinced that it increases the cost of misery every day. That misery also has a cost, it can be a bill that is hidden or remains long in history, a bill that future generations must pay. I fear that we are leaving a very expensive bill to future generations: the non-development of the country.
So, to be as clear as possible: the fundamental and biggest problem of Kosovo is the inability to develop it. It is the inability to create normal schools, where the new generations are educated; the inability to create normal textbooks that enhance the formation and education of our people; the inability to improve the health situation; the inability to benefit from the global benefits of economic development projects that bring jobs and well-being, consequently progress.
The development of the country is not done with barren policies, with demagogues and primitive patriotic slogans, as is known, demagogues are a national disaster, but with well-thought-out ideas and strategies, with professional people who work with devotion and love for the homeland and with friends.
Therefore, we must be rational and understand that Kosovo's major problem is not the association, nor the border, nor Serbia, nor corruption, but the deceitful and ignorant leaders, who with poor policies have corrupted an entire people.
We know that language is everything, it heals wounds or creates new ones, forms alternatives or destroys existing ones, that language creates ideas, ideas bring projects and good. If we analyze the language of politics, we see that it is terribly miserable, a misery that screams.
Governance, first and foremost, is culture and represents a cultural mindset.
That is why in the advanced world there is talk of democratic culture, economic culture, and legal culture.
What cultural mindset does our country represent today?
The man who tries to find an answer to this question is ashamed.
Because, our country seems today to be the product of a trench mentality, a mentality that is fundamentally incompatible with democracy as a value system.
Because, we must remember, the engine of democracy's existence is dialogue and communication.
Here, people engage in monologue, not dialogue, which is why misery spreads its sad face everywhere.
What is heard daily here has nothing to do with development or ideas. Politics is fed by filth, by base instincts, where confusion, accusations, a mindset of blame, fighting, justification, arrogance, anger, isolation... flourish like nothing else.
So, the real problem of Kosovo is political poverty, which is daily destroying the future of this country.
Another thing we should often mention is our relationship with the West. That every time, as a nation, we have turned our backs on the West, the gates of hell have been opened for us.
Our national existence outside the orbit of the West recognizes the misery and backwardness as flags that have waved for centuries.
This truth is so bright that no darkness can hide it, say all our enlightened minds, throughout the stages of development as a nation.
Tajar Zavalani, in the text "What we saw in Europe. What we find in Albania", writes, among other things:
"True, when the occasion arises, we stigmatize, and with all our might, our shortcomings as a nation. But we do this to explain the past and to understand the psychology of the masses; and not to justify our apathy, inertia, indifference and inaction. If it comes to apportioning blame, the greatest blame lies with those of us who call ourselves intellectuals. Why?.., you will ask. For me, the matter is so clear that it does not need to be explained. But there are some truths that do no harm in being repeated from time to time. We, the sons of this country, born from the bosom of this people, had the opportunity or the fortune to live for several years in the capitals of the most civilized states of Western Europe. There we came into contact with a world, a culture, a people that has reached the peak of progress. There we tried, like anyone with the courage and ability, to shake off the dust of "In the countryside where we grew up, to break away from the rusty ideas, shallow prejudices and primitive mentality; we tried to re-educate ourselves and arm ourselves with knowledge and the will to work."
And, if poor politics and the inability to develop the country are directly translated into daily reality, more precisely into the misery that lies everywhere, another, very big fault, mentioned by Zavalani, but which perhaps is not directly translated into daily reality, but which history records, is the fault of those who call themselves intellectuals and who do not flinch in the face of this misery or whisper so little that their voices sound like the speech of children.
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