Periscope Comment 28 November and our silent relationship with ourselves

Kosovo Albanians continue to celebrate November 28th, Albania's independence day from the Ottoman Empire, and identify themselves as Albanians. This identification is the continuation of several-decade efforts to build a national narrative in response to the disregard that made cultural features of the nations APUoslavism. This identification was further tested during the 1990 ' s, when the oppression changed from ideological to ethnic, becoming even more unacceptable to a liberation war a little later.

After the war, however, the November 28th festival generally failed to translate into genuine civic love for certain ideals. It was failed to help bring about new efforts, and greater and more conservative commitment to overturn the Albanian inequalities and the oppressive class that was etablued in Kosovo and Albania. November 28th thus, it was experienced as a holiday of its arrivals, and not as a promotional day for other necessary commitments. The manner of celebration, congratulations themselves, is a symptom of unconditional submission to the tertiaryness of these elites that the risk of being a nation constantly designs abroad. By thus maintaining, an organic and romantic spirit of nationalism. An ethnicity that's trying to keep things in one place, unchanged.

The nation is not a thing done. He's constantly doing it. And Kosovo and Albania today are among the poorest countries in Europe to spread among their citizens only suffering, despair and frustration. Unemployment is high. Economic development is too slow. Gender equality and social equality seem an inevitable dream. Culture is ignored. And a dignified living is only made by the intellectual and political elites devoted to cultivating illusions. These problems have caused the desire to leave Kosovo and Albania to Western countries to be very strong among young people. This shows that virtual festive love for the country is not conveyed to everydayity, in reality.

Yet, it is not yet stimulated or simulated by a national consciousness that designs danger in itself. That shakes and shakes the outlook of self-preservation. That dictates and cures the terrible diseases our society suffers from. We mentioned the corrupting and abusive elites with political and intellectual power. But even beyond the institutional and non-institute sphere that is seized by their power, problems remain very big. A major illness is laziness. In a recently released research, Kosovars only work 2 hours a day on average. The lack of will for work leads to an endangered nation. Such fear came from writer Michel Howellbeq for Belgian society, which reportedly simply does not want to work.

28 November should not be just a holiday that mentions national achievements in relations with others. This is a tendency that goes into xenophobia. It's imperative that we make some self-relation, overcome ourselves, and see these achievements as great national successes. The notion of self-excusement, of value change, of self - worth is necessary. The transformation of national holidays, from events where self-reliance is exploited to events where self-improvement is called.

Suppose a big conscious step is celebrated, where we learn collectively that we were wrong about something once. Or even some symbolic event that strengthens the mechanisms of order and law. That strengthens agriculture. Just like any success in sports. Among other things.

But it is evident that the Kosovo Albanians and those of Albania and other Albanian countries suffer for new ideals and new commitments. Most of all, they suffer from the oldness of up - to - date concepts that make him feel sufficient and fulfilled. And the lack of new shared ideals and dreams.