FLASH
Shkruar nga Prof. Mimoza Manxhari
This apparent complacency of academic and/or political leaders threatens to create a political reality characterized by ambiguity, corruption, and a blatant disregard for the well-being of the electorate...
Do you remember that tale of the mother crab, who, seeing her child's crooked walk, advised her: "Walk straight" and her little one replied - "Show me how"? Despite her efforts, neither could move in a straight line.
Doesn't this allegory seem quite familiar and commonly encountered in our contemporary reality?
Exactly, the folly of expecting others to implement standards that they themselves do not meet!?
We saw in both voice and image how the president of the Academy of Sciences in a very vulgar manner ignored the very normal questions of a respected professor!
Such behavior is unlikely to be an isolated anomaly.
As Professor A. Fuga's interview exposed, this episode not only revealed personal shortcomings of the president of this institution, but also the evident truth of the systemic dysfunction of one of our most valued institutions of knowledge and human value!
Historically, when academic institutions are plagued by internal corruption and violate the most normal demands for transparency, they herald a broader societal decline.
The "Trial of Academics" in the Soviet Union during the late 1920s, I think, should be brought to our attention again, to remind us how the erosion of ethical standards within academia makes wider repression and the loss of intellectual freedom inevitable.
Currently, the various political parties are in their feverish preparation for the May 11 elections, and the quality of the candidates and the integrity of the electoral process are paramount.
In a society where academics or intellectuals fail to demonstrate and uphold integrity, human virtue, transparency, and accountability, it is not difficult to predict that even those candidates who are barely being found will likely reflect or even exacerbate these shortcomings.
This attitude is being allowed.
Nobody is speaking out!
This implies that we will find promotion of his likes as candidates for the new parliament, thereby undermining democracy in the first place.
This apparent complacency of academic and/or political leaders threatens to create a political reality characterized by ambiguity, corruption, and a blatant disregard for the well-being of the electorate.
History has taught us its lessons.
We need to learn and apply them.
More than reciting and swearing by the principles of transparency, accountability, and humane governance, we need to discredit this degradation within our scientific institutions and actively support and defend the integrity of our academic and political system.
*Teacher at the Faculty of Economics, University of Tirana
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