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Assembly of Basha: the promotion of the book "My Mission" for several times

Politiko 2023-09-04 13:38:02
Assembly of Basha: the promotion of the book "My Mission" for several

Alfred Lela

 

L. Basha's speech in the Extraordinary Assembly, of the usual minority group in the DP, could be considered reasonable if we removed two harmful elements. One is technical and not of any fundamental importance: it concerns the misuse of a parable of Sami bey Frashëri. The author did not say, "Albania has been!" It is! And it will be!". The title of his book is Albania: What Has Been, What Is It, and What shall become?: thoughts on saving the motherland from the dangers surrounding it. In it, he elaborates theses for an Albania of tomorrow, considering its present and past.

This first transgression, ethical or stylistic, also explains the second. Which has nothing to do with the selection of rhetorical paragraphs that fill the speech but with the speaker's profile, that is, with L. Basha.

He delivered an electoral, programmatic, rhetorical, and, above all, repetitive speech. The speech itself was not pathetic, but the author made it so. He offered so many talismans of salvation- creating for himself the halo of a missionary. By definition, a missionary is or is known as someone who breaks ground for the first time, that is, preaching a thesis or undertaking a mission. There are no second or third-time missionaries. Mainly, there are no missionaries who have proven themselves as caretakers or accountants, two trades that are respected but not of the sublime category we have in mind.

Those who have previously written a book entitled My Mission are no exception to this rule.

Thus, Basha in the missionary position (not to be confused with the homonymous sexual position) is pathetic. Because you cannot take the word separate from the speaker, you cannot separate the author's profile from his rhetoric; they are inextricably linked. It is as if Adolf Hitler, suddenly, one day in 1943, spoke about the rights of minorities. Or, in the middle of his peace movement, Mahatma Gandhi gave a speech in Calcutta about the Final Solution.

Basha delivered a good speech that could have been delivered, let's say, by Flutura Ačka or Agron Gejkmarkaj, who are not burdened by a past like Basha's, full of pirouettes, high office, conjectures and accusations, and not least, with an unaffordable debt burden to the Democrats.

In this sense, Basha's speech was an empty shell in which the winds of the past blow and turn into warnings for the future. They read: Can we trust this man who has lied to us so many times? Is he so talented, and we are so stupid?

The path that Basha has embarked on, along with his speech, is paved with the promise of a different future. The conservator, and any rational being always looks to the past to interpret the future.

In the rearview mirror of the political car, Basha appears shaved and combed... reading the same speech for the infinite time.  

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