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Shkruar nga Agron Gjekmarkaj
It is an incomparable shame that after so many years in power, the "Renaissance" of political grandstanding has forgotten the very cradle of the National Renaissance. The irony is poignant: those who use the name "Renaissance" in politics have left the country that gave birth to the true renaissance men of the nation in ruins.
It would not be paradoxical for the Prime Minister to speak solemnly about Naim Frashëri, about the "Sun that rises from the west", about Europe and the heritage of the National Renaissance, if Frashëri itself, the birthplace of Abdyl Frashëri, Naim Frashëri and Sami Frashëri, were not left in complete oblivion.
But there it is! I would even dare to go a little further: if half of his government were to pretend to have read any of his works! But it is!
This is really how Naimi's saying should have felt, a compass "from the west", but political behavior tells us that the sun in Albania "rises from the east", even though we chew the word Europe like chewing gum, which the clam of Namuzi begs us for as "Europe"! "Sevap me rejtë kaurrin", said the soldiers of Haxhiqamil in the evil year 1914; probably, with this principle we conduct negotiations with Brussels!
Not only are poetic statuses on Facebook and beautiful words about the great "Albanian Maker" not enough, when the road to Frashëri is in a scandalous state, when visitors are faced with an infrastructure that requires tired mules to climb, a lack of investment and an unforgivable state indifference, the daughter of the ignorance of this scumbag who caresses us like a numbing breeze, but makes us look bad as a government, as a society, as a state. It seems as if we do not deserve the great ether!
There can be no talk of respect for history when the Frashëri Brothers Museum, a national symbol, resembles a forgotten suburban warehouse, where rats play like contemporary "renaissance" people!
The government talks about Europe, but Europe starts from memory and national consciousness, which sought the mother continent right when we were part of the evil empire! You cannot claim European integration by depopulating and leaving in darkness the country that gave Albania its mind, soul and national consciousness.
Frashëri is not just a village; it is a temple, full of "Doric" columns on which the national ideology and Albanian identity are held. It is the place where the idea of Albania came to life, "running like crazy" to be resurrected from the dead as a nation, as a fabric, as a language! There lies a great "bridge" of transition from primitivism to modernity!
It is an incomparable shame that after so many years in power, the "Renaissance" of political grandstanding has forgotten the very cradle of the National Renaissance. The irony is poignant: those who use the name "Renaissance" in politics have left the country that gave birth to the true renaissance men of the nation in ruins.
In any normal European country, the birthplace of the nation's founding figures would be a source of state pride, a cultural destination, a model museum, and a national pilgrimage center. In Frashër, however, oblivion has taken the place of respect and propaganda has taken the place of concrete work.
Albania does not need more pompous declarations about Naimi. It needs a dignified path to Frashëri, restoration of the museum, real investments, protection of heritage, and true respect for history.
Because nations do not honor the Renaissance with words. They honor them with deeds. As Abdyl Frashëri said: “Albania above all.” But today it seems as if propaganda is above everything and not national memory.
Sami Frashëri in a monumental way left the legacy: "A nation that loses its language and memory loses itself." While we behave as if national identity is an electoral decoration and not the foundation of the state.
And Naim Frashëri, the one who saw Albania with the eyes of the European soul, left us the following: “The sun rises from the west.” But the Albanian Government often behaves as if light should be sought elsewhere, far from civilization, far from culture and far from the very European ideal that the Renaissance people dreamed of for this country. In words, both the Prime Minister and the government are European, but only in words, which are being de-semantized because the truth keeps them connected to that world from which Naim lived and worked to remove his Albanians!
Po ky ku kishte humbur qe doli ne skene? Sa mire e mban vehten kodoshi.