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Prince Leka and Elia Zaharia as liquidity war with permanence

Politiko 2024-03-07 15:49:16

Prince Leka and Elia Zaharia as liquidity war with permanence

Alfred Lela

Kingdoms are institutions of permanence, perhaps the only such in a liquid world, of constant variability and total relativization. Marriage is also such an institution (until death do us part!), and that is why traditionalists, who are called conservatives within the political subject, value both.

Albania has had the fate (bad, according to the author of these ranks) of an interrupted kingdom. The role and trust that we wanted to place on the President during the transition could have been interpreted much better by a king. The monarch would have been above the party because he would not have been appointed by them, as is the case of the Republican head of our state.

In the great crisis of faith among even those who should have been institutions of permanence, the church, and the mosque, i.e., religion (remember some 'slips' towards the governments of the Bishop of Tirana or the deep division in the Muslim community divided into Erdoganists and Gulenists ). The monarch, most likely, would remain a kind of watchman who saw Albania as something eternal in nature and everything else transitory. Albania and God would be the ones we would have to guard against, and we would have to guard.

This lack of permanence, this fluidity of everything that collapses into nothingness, culminated in the conflict between the nephew of King Zog, Prince Leka, and Elia Zaharia, a theater actress who became Princess Elia for a while.

Their marriage may have seemed kitsch to many, but even that appearance of theatricality provided the image of a social transfer that passes from generation to the future. It was an attempt to say that some things never change, and they don't have to. An insistence on tradition, which a total leg sprain has replaced today. The transformation from one day in Tirana into the city of the royal families of Europe had something museum-like, eternal, and unique. It is a reminder that the world is created, but also that it creates, that Caesar and God are meanings of this connection.

The pus of the conflict burst forth publicly to condemn both the monarchy and the marriage to the mark of shame. But consider who they are, who legislates it, and who carries this punishment's stamp. Soldiers of liquidity. For example, policemen and prosecutors - guessing that the video came from them - the names of their colleagues are found in the "Metamorfoza" file or other interceptions of foreign services or police. Media journalists, mainstream or digital, legitimize themselves in the havoc they make, with news that is not news, with voyeurism that is not journalism, with deductions based on no induction, in reality, that has no relation to reality. That zeal to publish and interpret the video of Leka and Elias was the revenge of the liquid against the permanent, of the fluid against the permanent. A collision of two worlds where what appears royal, although it may not be so, with what is plebeian, does not accept to be so.

Of course, aided by the banality of the scenes and the language of the conflict, they took advantage of this opportunity, which entitled them to the sign of equality. In a world where everyone already feels equal, the most unequal are the ones who count. But they are a minority, and this exposes and stigmatizes them.

Until yesterday, Prince Leka, Princess Elia, and Geraldina were signs of normality in a Tirana that preferred the abnormal. Now, they are all like this: distance and permanence have decreased. This allowed the media interpreters today, especially the left, who enjoyed the harshness of the old partisan fighter and his makeshift shoes on the monarch's bed in the King's Palace - now called Palace of the Brigades -to stigmatize once again the Albanian royal family (now her memory).

The left insists on continuing the fight even after killing the opponent. What if he is resurrected? For them, everything is liquid, and liquidity is the only permanence.