ANALYSIS: From the word to the bullet: What has "lit" our fuse so much?!

2025-10-22 21:39:13Pikëpamje SHKRUAR NGA ADRIAN THANO
ANALYSIS: From the word to the bullet: What has "lit" our fuse so
Flori Paluçi, who killed and was killed during the conflict in Manëz

Repeated murders like today's in Durrës, for absurd reasons, do not simply happen in an impulsive moment. Beneath lies a culture of violence, silent, tolerated, but also nurtured over years.

Today, there is a frightening readiness for conflict on the country's streets. Tension hangs in the balance, ready to explode over a glance, a word, a parking spot. No motive, no reason is needed. "Nothing" is enough. An entire society no longer knows how to "speak."

Temperament issues? No, a tragic failure of education, spanning the last three decades. We are not cultivating self-control, respect, empathy, and a value for life. We are not teaching our children that life is not a game with “reset” buttons, but a responsibility that begins with oneself and ends with the other. We are not teaching them to think before they speak, to stop their hand before they strike. Not out of fear, but out of courage and maturity.

A few days ago, I found myself facing a group of juveniles committing a robbery on the Saranda promenade: One of them almost climbed up behind me, his head held high with pride. He was making hand movements in front of my stomach; imitating stabbing. The tone of my reaction was "ruining his image in the neighborhood."

The "name" for these pitiful children is earned not by work, but by theft, violence, fear. This empty-headed "image" will be a real criminal in the media headlines tomorrow.

I later learned that even in other cities with increased tourism, groups of minors have been involved in various forms of crime: blackmail, ransom demands to return stolen items or animals, verbal violence against visitors, etc.

This is a serious challenge for local police. If they don't have action plans not only to protect potential victims, but also to rehabilitate these children before they enter the world of crime, they are just strutting around the streets in that uniform.

Times are difficult for most. Albanian families are under economic and spiritual pressure. Parental authority has declined. Teachers are tired, unsupported, without authority. What else should be done besides the police? We don't need to invent solutions: The education budget should be increased; training from the first grade; education classes on emotional control and conflict (these are mandatory in the education system); family counseling and assistance for parents of problematic youth; strong awareness campaigns that raise awareness of the consequences of a moment of violence!

If politics has no sensitivity to these things, what the hell is it for? If it doesn't deal with these things, what does it matter then, if there are 100, 140 or 200 losers scurrying around in that hall where the law and decision-making originate and flow?

What we see today is that politics, its leaders, have a shallow radar. Even when they react to such events – like earlier about a school murder – they do not react to reality, but to the noise on the networks. Until this or that event goes “viral”, circulates on social networks with shocking headlines or serious videos, it remains invisible.

So it's not the pain that drives the reaction, but the clicks. This is deeply opportunistic and superficial.

The dependence on social media as a barometer of political reaction is another indicator of the disconnect between politics and reality. It is no coincidence that the divide between an isolated elite and an increasingly tired, violent and disillusioned society is also becoming more concrete.

It's not a lifestyle issue. It's a fermenting social crisis. They're forgetting something. Maybe they don't understand. They can build high walls around their homes, but there's no wall that can separate them from the consequences of a society that's collapsing under inequality, injustice, and political arrogance. Especially when most of these rich people have become so not because of ability, but because of proximity to power.

The children of these people or the children of politicians can study abroad, but the children of a country that only sees models of enrichment for stale tendermasters, through corruption or "system manipulation", will grow up with anger, aversion to work, and a deep sense of injustice.

Someone from this generation will arrive at the doors of the villas tomorrow. Not to say hello. Violence, arrogance, and poverty cannot be locked behind armored doors.

When a society grows in hatred and division, no one is saved. Not even those whose minds are lying today./ DITA


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