Written by: Ndue Ukaj
The scandalous exhibition is actually the real exhibition of madness, in the vortex of which our country has been plunged for some time now.
"Two boats have arrived at Saint John,
I remember it, and I miss it.
All Albanians are gathered in the assembly,
I don't even remember!"
It seems to me that these satirical verses by Fishta best reflect our miserable situation, or more precisely, a disease that is eroding our society daily: a negative relationship with the state, history, and a kind of elementary axiology of values, which normal societies do not debate on a daily basis.
That there is an identity and cultural canon.
But, deniers want to banish the truth from human life, so they want overthrow.
And the evil of this disease, which I mentioned, is not the disease itself, but the lack of desire to diagnose and cure it. Or more precisely, the desire to live secretly with it, which amounts to, in Fishta's words, the desire not to think, but to hide.
There are many people in the public sphere who passionately do what they don't know and don't do what they know.
They are crazy and think they can turn the wheel of history.
And this is also seen in the work of the exhibition, the scandal of which is a great outcry that has erupted, but which has lived for some time in our country, where ignorance and malice support each other.
Meanwhile, on another level, we can understand this scandal better if we update the work of Ismail Kadare, especially "The Disagreement", where he talks about national deniers or rejecters. He talks about the kind of people who produce such scandals.
It is known that every nation has its missionaries of goodness and its ill-wishers.
And the latter work diligently. For proletarian ideas.
The point is that those who take the bait and not the brains are now one with the government, so they are a well-consolidated system, and they get angry every time they find a piece of paper, like they used to do when they passionately wanted to demystify the figure of Gjergj Kastrioti, pretending to be bleeding historical truths, when in fact, it was a well-thought-out ideological engineering, with the clear goal: to separate Albanians from the West.
Kadare said that every nation has within itself a counter-energy and that the rejecters are as old as the world. But, he added, "the evil of Albania was that the number of rejecters was too high. Higher than the permissible limit, after which the nation would collapse."
So, the bad thing here, with us, is that we are on the verge of overthrow, also due to the fact that the government maintains ignorance, because it knows full well that by exaggerating it, it is exaggerating its own existence.
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