FLASH
Shkruar nga Adrian Thano
Revolt is the accumulated feeling of injustice, indignation at arbitrariness, rejection of the status quo. It is accumulated energy that does not die out. It changes state and appears again, in forms that are much more difficult to control.
Protests may end. Revolts do not. This is the first thing to understand. Even if this protest is suppressed, the feeling that gave rise to it does not disappear.
Protest is organization. It has its time, place, and form. It can be dispersed, exhausted, suppressed, or even manipulated and killed by the disgusting theater of the old political scene.
Revolt is something else entirely.
It is not an "event" that the police can disperse, nor a crowd that can be suffocated by the heat.
Revolt is the accumulated feeling of injustice, indignation at arbitrariness, rejection of the status quo. It is accumulated energy that does not die out. It changes state and appears again, in forms that are much more difficult to control.
Is there a revolt in Albania? The answer is known. In fact (and this is the real problem of this political caste) there are many more revolters at home than daily protesters in the squares.
This outburst we are seeing is not a passing anger.
Before the streets were filled, the country was nursing a silent anger at corruption, injustice, and inequality of opportunity. On top of this layer, legitimate indignation against a simple act of violence fell like a fuse, which then revealed arbitrary decisions to alienate public and private property, cooked up in complete darkness.
Now we are dealing with an expanding energy, growing daily. The longer it is attempted to be suppressed, the more uncontrollable the next explosion will be. And the more commonplace, even banal, will be the next cause that will discharge it.
Anyone in power who thinks they can kill a protest like this "flamingo" protest has simply bought some time with interest, making the future social bill terribly heavier.
No government, no matter how strong and sophisticated in silencing voices, can manage for long the accumulated indignation of a people robbed and then insulted.
The Prime Minister, out of the empty arrogance of his political Olympus, did everything he could during these five or six weeks to make us all feel exactly that way.
Instead of reflection, he poisoned the public debate with insults, epithets, and insults against the protesters. Who are our children.
He preferred to divide Albania with thick lines into "ours and theirs" and to invent imaginary enemies. Above all, while the people were in the square, he continued his 'strategic' clientelistic signings on the coast unperturbed.
A stubbornness (not entirely incomprehensible) even where he is clearly immersed in lies and error.
Even if we accept the scenario that in the crowd there are people with agendas, radicals, pigs, crows, etc., a statesman does not respond to these on TV, he acts with the institutions that the state has. And in such cases he acts silently.
A visionary leader, as he likes to see us, treats the people in the square as a social problem that requires a solution, not as a camp of personal enemies with whom he must exchange banal retorts day and night. When he descends to that level of vocabulary, the Prime Minister does not insult those in the square. He devalues and diminishes the chair he stands on.
There is no justification for this. Nor can the possibility of violence when a protest escalates excuse it. Because, in truth, maintaining calm and non-escalation is the duty of the government, not the street.
If he truly aims for history, the Prime Minister must understand that a statesman has the ability to represent even those who hate him. You are the Prime Minister of everyone, including the protesters in the streets, the fiercest critics, and the 'ravens' who dare to oppose your whims. Being sworn in as Prime Minister is not a privilege to choose your audience.
This everyday arrogance, this verbal cynicism, is not a sign of a strong leader, but a symptom of a deep immaturity, not just political. It is an extreme degradation of what the state should represent.
But the Prime Minister, despite decades in power, has still not been able to make the leap from individual to institution.
Most importantly, by refusing to freeze even temporarily these dubious projects, he has openly revealed his hierarchy of values. He has proven to us that the clientele's accounts on these resorts carry more weight than anything else in Albania. Without any hesitation, he has sacrificed even social peace itself.
In the face of this, this extraordinary protest is a great test of maturity for our society.
She has long since overcome the fate of flamingos and raised the great bell: The real development of a nation cannot be its criminalization through drug money, the rush for the false luxury of hotels, skyscrapers, or casinos.
True development is measured by schools, by education, long-term projects that build citizens, not concrete walls.
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