Retrology

It's in the spirit of the politician to try to present the failures as successes, in the eyes of the third: in the jargon of public relations This kind of cynical manipulation is sometimes called spin.

But present - day rulers in Tirana have chosen a little monotonous technique to respond to criticism - systematic comparison, sometimes shit from the past.

And so bad was the Berisha regime that the present have often given them enough distance to feel safe in their failures and disasters.

But as bad as that regime has been, from Rama's team to government and its deputies in Parliament the public has the right to expect something beyond the obsession to yesterday's failures of opponents.

That's what I thought, when I shook my teeth and read the answer that Culture Minister Kumar gave to actor Robert Rudnika's concern about the fate of his national theatre and headquarters in Tirana.

Godbarko reminded Ndjenika of many years ago, which only testified that Berisha's then team had run cultural affairs by moving freely from gaffe to gas.

After asking the actor why he and his colleagues had not protested all kinds of mistakes, shit, and abuses. then, even pointing out that “the community of actors and our society should not have allowed the theater to be turned into a game smoke bar of luck and bingo, sucking out clients but not art lovers,” The minister of courageous culture even the current protest of actors did not hesitate to present it as the “successful” of its government, since this eventually created the right climate of tolerance and pluralism in civil society.

The chief of Godbaros, Prime Minister Rama, showed the same attitude towards the current crisisWhich he formulated in response to a critic who made a Facebook commentator:

[...] The debate to protect the ruined theater building is a decades-old, exhausted and worthless debate today! How my government has done for theaters, museums, stadiums in only four years have not made all governments together in 25 years!

That's him. spin So, in Rama's words, it's himself the previous “, tired and worthless today. ”

Both comparison to the past and the argument of the form “where you were then”, trying to question the critic's integrity, I would engage in the same method of response to an extremely stressed immune system, like that of today's ruling party.

And since I miss a word about him, I'm allowed to adopt[1] term retrology, both label for its own method and its systematic manifestations.

And the term helps me to say it, short and straight, that today's public power communications can easily reduce it to a barrier. retrologyWho aim to divert criticism to subjects and debates without interest.

The method itself is not new. Some of us will still remember Hoxha's obsession with statistics from 1938; since it all took other sizes, more positive, more impressive, more inspiring, more optimistic.

How could dentists not take pride throughout their homeland in 1976 to remove sixfold of the molars pulled from their colleagues, subjects of Zogu?

What about funeral services and coffin workshops?

Of course, even beyond the jokes, much of these statistics were warranted; yet, few of us who lived then were thrilled to leave behind in 1938.

When the lights went out, when they found no meat or milk in stores, when it took four hours to take a train to Elbasan, when those who left Albania returned with luggage loaded with rags and when the regime persecuted grandchildren still for their grandparents' <x0).

And only because of repetition. Retrologys of that regime became counterproducing and began to be sent over with hylarity, even finishing pieces of Battuta and joke.

1938 was serving as mega-alibia of a failed economy and a criminal economic policy.

I can't say that about Retrologys As well as Berisha and Basha are doing their best to preserve their value; as they are doing their best to allow these present-timers to retain power without much turmoil.

But I'm afraid that the method itself is wormish; and that's what those who use 24/7 feel, in their communications “the people. ”

And the main reason that this approach, beyond the extreme effect and the comfort of the moment, cannot work is that the other one you've faced and you're looking for can learn to sink and start using it against you (even if you've developed a scarecrow to shoot him with rotten tomatoes, even the scarecrow will learn, sooner or later, to send the rotten tomatoes back).

As he now noted an editorial at the pen, so did actor Rudnika, who moralisation of Minister Godbarto replied:

It's you who had all the time needed to do the transparency of what happened yesterday. We ask him.

Findu, former director of the Experimental Theatre Kastriot Chip published a document indicating that the decision to turn part of the National Theatre headquarters into bingo what had caused indignation A poster of Godbaros and then took the current chief of Godbaros, Edi Rama, the Minister of Culture himself.

I can't go into the details of these strokes and counterplots, but to speak with a proverb of Italian, I know spada partye, I know spada perisce. The past is able to give arguments to all sides; the more when it comes to the political class that much Blood-stressed(The New English Bible) caret) Albania today.[2]

That is the greatest calamity. Retrology The orientation of the lie of communication and the debate over something overcome, dead, eaten by worms; or that's what makes the self - pleasure of today's rulers sick, even when they're entitled to feel satisfied, for some random accomplishment.

Unfortunately, the insistence on this argumentative technique in essence ridiculously and the overexploration of it from one Facebook status to another is creating a model; and the new generation of stepsy politicians are being taught not to conceive of any other kind of debate, beyond the one that digs into the opinion past and the scientific (secular) approach, with past periods run by <x01aritharist <x1.

Add here the inevitable tendency to personalize all of this type of research and have the recipe for compromise of communication on your own. But I can't put my hand into the fire and say that it's unlikely that this is the goal of the retrologers.