A wise prime minister, educated in philosophical principles, has as a fundamental principle of his work the Socratic maxim that the beginning of wisdom lies in the recognition of ignorance, unlike a charlatan prime minister, who talks nonsense about topics and problems that he is neither competent nor called to speak about.
Written by: Ndue Ukaj
It is known that recognizing ignorance is the first step to escaping its clutches, to understanding oneself, and moreover, "this is of profound importance for our understanding of society," says Nobel laureate FH Hayek in his monumental book "The Constitution of Liberty."
Polish writer and Nobel laureate Wislawa Szyborska has some very useful advice on this topic. She praises two little words, “I don’t know,” as being equipped with wings for flight, and adds:
“If Isaac Newton had not said to himself, “I do not know,” the apples in his garden might still be falling like hailstones, and he, at best, would simply have stooped to pick them up and eat them. If my compatriot Marie Skłodowska-Curie had not said to herself, “I do not know,” she would probably have remained a chemistry teacher in a school for young girls from good families, and in this, undoubtedly very worthy, job, her life would have passed, unrecognized. “
So, Socrates' maxim has served as a kind of engine throughout the history of Western civilization, as an engine for development.
This very maxim has served very little purpose in our polluted and toxic environment, therefore, the prime minister's cloaking of philosophy reveals another fact: the miserable truth of his mindset.
In truth, Kosovo has been hit hard by the storm of political ignorance, led by the Prime Minister himself, a storm that is threatening to uproot even the few democratic roots painstakingly planted in our land.
It is nothing new to say that in the field of politics, we are very poor, that our political, but also overall poverty screams out daily, and is manifested in our backwardness, for which we compete for first place in Europe.
Therefore, to quote Kant, Mill, and Aristotle, and to represent the country with the poorest knowledge in Europe, means to try to cover the sun with a sieve, so, clearly, this means that you are doing state propaganda, moreover, this means that you are wrapping yourself in clothes that do not fit you.
In Kosovo, the quality of political thinking is like the quality of the air on a heavy smog day, and if we want to be a little truthful, we know that we are very poor in this respect. We are without tradition, without literature and with few major events, so we are last in Europe.
I fear that if someone from the world of knowledge came here to gather some grains of wisdom and power, they might come out empty-handed.
However, the recognition of this reality should not encourage weakness, on the contrary, it should serve as a force for upliftment. That this is where wisdom begins, say philosophers and writers. That, by recognizing ignorance, man is equipped with the wings of knowledge. And he learns. He gradually learns and grows, as the political generation led by Ibrahim Rugova learned and grew, who made the idea of Kosovo very big in the democratic world.
Unfortunately, politics here seems to have little desire to grow with ideas. From a values perspective, it is shrinking every day, swelling with propaganda and intrigue.
Therefore, in our environment, everyone "knows" how to talk about politics, make political judgments, and even give the strangest assessments that make people's minds spin.
We are a small and poor country, without a tradition in state affairs, a country that suffers from the consequences of the past, has traumatic memories, of the two bad legacies that it has gone through and that have left negative traces in the mentality: the Ottoman and communist heritage. Add to this the poor tradition of reading, the very late and poor quality education, then the situation seems truly alarming.
We need, like fresh air, a comprehensive emancipatory stimulus, where the two words "I don't know" should be at the forefront, as an orienting reference.
As long as our country does not have leaders who appreciate the magic of two little words, "I don't know," we will see many wild winters, bad years, and the withering of life here.
With these anti-models that the people of this country see every day, with such an arrogant prime minister, who represents a country where there is no electricity and with a democracy that is eroding every day, Kosovo will continue to swell with propaganda, the storm of ignorance will grow, and with it, the thunderous praise for the leader.
As a backward nation, we must never forget: we have long lived at the tail end of history, mostly through our own fault, because we have not had people of mind, in charge of the country, because we are the blackness of ourselves, Zef Pllumi rightly said.
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