FLASH
Shkruar nga Prof. Mimoza Manxhari
For the words that are being said, but that the people no longer believe, the ones they are hearing!
Every society that goes through periods of tension, protest, and discontent finds itself involved in a strange phenomenon: those in power who speak words that no longer belong to the people, but appear as machines that reproduce them endlessly.
I have noticed public appearances, either in person or in written words in the media, by former power holders from recent governments.
The same sentences, the same tone, the same fictitious certainty coldly demonstrated by people who clearly do not know reality, but who speak anyway, as if reality were a second version that has no connection to what is experienced on the streets of Albania or anywhere where there are Albanians!!
We see that the government has come out to speak again, this time not to beg for votes, but to show us how little it communicates!
And rightly, each of us begins to ask: is there still responsibility behind these words, or is it just a voice defending itself?
Albania's present is proving how much the public narrative has lost its most important aspect: credibility.
It's not that we don't listen anymore. On the contrary, we are listening and watching more than ever. But what is being served to us no longer belongs to us.
This is the most visible manifestation of that great rift that many of those who come out in defense of the way that all of us who protest see and touch every day, but have chosen not to see: between what is said and what is lived.
In this gap, words never become a bridge. They become a shield.
The old philosophy would call this the absence of a living “logos”, precisely the word that thinks, that questions, that accepts its limits. Today, at the height of popular anger, public appearances continue to remain performances: not to demonstrate reflection and acceptance of responsibility for reality, but to manage it, where the citizen is not seen as an interlocutor, but simply as an audience that they want to convince!
How unfortunate that they don't understand that society is not an audience!! It is a living body that thinks, reacts, and remembers.
With their public appearances, anyone who is ordered to do so appears to be defending their positions, avoiding the essence of the questions that come from the anger of those who fill the squares every evening and demand the removal of anyone who has produced this destruction of the nation and of Albania itself.
Plato would call this departure from truth a form of cave darkness, where people see shadows and think that is reality. Today, we no longer have shadows on the wall. We have them on screens.
When a public representative speaks to us with the certainty of being voted for by 800 thousand voters (!), every call and revolt of the protesters, with a strained articulation, calls us a misunderstanding and the protest itself a deviation, then their words no longer become bridges, they become walls.
Anyone who accepted the chair of power should have learned a small lesson from history: no society tolerates injustice for long, and you cannot erase reality by choosing not to mention it.
Reality does not disappear. It only accumulates, through resentment, distrust, and distancing, until one day it explodes, as we have been seeing these weeks.
So I ask myself: how do these authorized speakers and writers still dare, and do they not spare us their indignation, when we who protest have no need for illusions, because the truth that they choose not to see and accept is precisely a broad and deep tension.
They need to know that this tension does not disappear. It accumulates, because we citizens do not live with interpretations. We live with consequences. Because words can delay facing the truth, but they cannot replace it.
The history of societies shows something clear: no gap between word and reality remains frozen forever.
Sooner or later, reality always demands its say.
And then, the question that remains is simple and harsh at the same time, not only political, but human:
← How can they still speak with such confidence, when a large part of us has come out into the open and shouted with united voices, and they still don't listen?!
← Is this arrogance, or a form of blindness of power that believes its own word is enough to replace reality?
This government has stopped listening and, finally, is openly proving to us that it has lost touch with its people.
This is always the beginning of his end.
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