pleiades: 4/6/08

Sunday, April 6, 2008

Syri i Fotografit

Shqiperia Hap Porten(pjesa e dyte)
Nga Altin Topi

Duke udhetuar ne pjesen veriore te Shqiperise, perkthyesi i shpjegon Dusko Doder-it se disa nga shtepite e hereshme te rrafshuara kohe me pare, me guret e themeleve te shperndara sic diktohej nga rregullat e kanunit, ishin shtepite e atyre qe kishin thyer besen. Shqiptaret sot, nuk e ndeshkojne njeri-tjetrin ne nje menyre te tille. Sic veren autori, shqiptaret e kane teper te veshtire te premtojne dicka, sado e parendesishme te jete ajo; ata nuk e marrin persiper te bejne dicka per ty, nese e gjykojne se nuk do te jene ne gjendje te mbajne fjalen e dhene. Shqiptaret stepen, ndruhen se, duke mos mbajtur fjalen, thyejne ne kete menyre besen.

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.