FLASH
Shkruar nga Luçiano Boçi
The most significant moment of the Smart City presentation was not the giant screen, nor the futuristic graphics and promises. It was the moment when the propaganda collided with the pain of a family and was lost.
Evil mentions good not to honor it, but as often as it needs to hide behind it.
In other words: The Devil always mentions the Angel to confirm his existence.
This happened precisely at yesterday's presentation of the "Smart City" project, which marked a new frontier of political instrumentalization.
Edi Rama chose to mention the name of Martin Can, the 14-year-old brutally murdered near his school, to support and justify the next technological surveillance project.
Martin's mention was not simply a lack of sensitivity. It was a diabolical attempt to shift the focus of public debate and cover up the state's failure to protect the lives of children near schools.
And when the state fails, responsibility cannot be shifted to algorithms, TikTok, or technology as Rama tried to do yesterday.
Because it remains where it has always been, in institutions, in the police, in schools, and in governance.
It's much easier to talk about artificial intelligence than about government failure, and it seems much more comfortable to promise cameras that will see everything than to admit that the state didn't see what was happening before its eyes.
This hypocritical narrative was immediately refuted by those who have the only moral authority to speak, Martin Can's family members.
Their public refusal to allow the boy's name to be used as propaganda decoration was the most dignified response to this cynicism.
This reaction clearly reminded Rama of what he often forgets.
That a tragedy is not communication material and a murdered child is not an argument to sell a government project.
Cameras can record every movement and artificial intelligence can analyze millions of pieces of data. This is true.
But no technology can replace the absent state, the inoperative institution, and the shirked responsibility.
That's why the most significant moment of the "Smart City" presentation wasn't the giant screen, nor the graphics and futuristic promises. It was the moment when propaganda collided with the pain of a family and was lost.
Because propaganda can buy cameras, servers, and screens. It can even build an entire “smart” city. But it can never buy the right to use an angel to hide its failures.
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