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Monday, November 16, 2009

Opinion/Kritike

Banaliteti i së keqesnga Altin Topi
Shekulli 16/11/2009

Shkrimi i Ardian Ndreces (para disa ditesh me te njejtin titull qe ka ky shenim) ngacmoi nje nerv aq sa me shtyu te rivizitoj konceptin e bere te fameshem prej Hannah Arend. Mendoj se thjeshtezimi, nepermjet analogjizmit apo perafrimit qe i behet figurave kyce te hierarkise puniste me Adolf Eichmann-in, do te thjeshtezonte e banalizonte se tepermi forcen e intriges dhe te ligesise makbethiane qe perfaqesuan keto personazhe kryesore pergjate dikatures e totalitarizmit shqiptar. Nje shkrim sado ta cekte ate labirinth te tragjedise njerezore te frymezuar e inskenuar nga nje grusht i vogel njerezish, do t'i bente padrejtesi te vertetes tashme te delegjitimizuar. Por figura e Eichmann-it mbetet figure e rendesishme, perfaqeson besniket e betuar ne verberi te atij grushti njerezish qe flisnin e akoma flasin ne emer te moralit e ligjit. E Shqiperia ka pasur jo pak Eichmann-e...

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.