pleiades: 3/16/08

Thursday, March 20, 2008

Literature/Gjuhesi

Me Prof. Ramadanin
Dashnor Kokonozi
Alb-Shkenca
Mars 18, 2008

Ne mendjen time, qe ne feminine me te hereshme ai ishte dhe mbeti qytetar i nje Shqiperie tjeter, i nje Shqiperie qe une ne te vertete nuk e njihja dhe nuk e njoha kurre. Mbase i nje Shqiperie qe nuk egzistonte gjetiu pervecse ne perfytyrimin tim te hallakatur.

Jo vetem sot, jo thjesht per ate qe ka ndodhur, por edhe shume vite me pare, ne gjallje te tij, atehere kur kisha privilegjin te beja ndonje cope rruge me te, mendja gjithnje me ka qene fiksuar te ideja se vepra me madheshtore e Ramadan Sokolit ka qene dinjiteti i tij. Ai mbeti i denje edhe ne nje kohe krejt te padenje.

A Living Metaphor

Culture is not static, culture is a living metaphor, culture changes, culture transforms. We should think about ourselves not simply as memes replicators of a given culture, we are the cultural agents of change. We are not some repository vessels of dusty cultural archeology; we are creators, artists, culture makers and transformers.

Nowadays, the Albanian culture is in complete disarray, in a total chaos. It is waiting for us to give it a new life, and draw again from its infinite complexity and the beauty therein. What would emerge, it should not be a recapitulation of the past, and it should not be a mere identity that has been recovered. What emerges, it should be a awareness of something new, an advanced state of intellectual, cultural, and material development, which can be called a new Albanian Civilization.

The eXodus, the archetype of liberation and freedom, remains the spiritual landscape, the essence of our times. Although freedom today has become a sort of escapism, myriads of mental arcade games of escapism from the real world, the meaning of true freedom is being connected to the reality of freedom. We have to escape from the narrow constriction of the dusty cultural memes. Now, more then ever, we have a golden opportunity, - a wide-opened window, - to connect us with this reality of freedom. Time should not pass us by; we should be the time travelers.