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What are we missing: A personality with values ​​or a culture of appreciation?

2026-05-11 19:39:22Pikëpamje SHKRUAR NGA ÇAPAJEV GJOKUTAJ
Chapaev Gjokutaj

A friend I respect, and I even try to read his posts on Facebook every time I come across them, wrote 2-3 days ago: "Only when we have such personalities, that the entire nation follows them to their final resting place, can we say that we have had values! So far, I have not known anyone like that."

Reading it reminded me that following Ismail Kadare also caused two extreme groups to be distinguished on social networks: those who appreciated him to the point of idealization and others who denied him to the point of desecration. It goes without saying that Kadare is not just anyone, but an Albanian, whose work radiates values ??widely accepted by the world, not only by publishers, but also by prestigious encyclopedias and centuries-old academies.

The lack of common figures is a deep symptom of our public culture. But in all likelihood, this shows that we have not managed to build a "collective memory" where certain personalities are unanimously accepted as representatives of the values ??of the nation. Even in this regard, we have managed to remain faithful to Fishta's sarcasm: it is easier to fill a bag with fleas than to unite two Albanians...

We continue to have a harmful political and social fragmentation. We tend to evaluate every figure through the lens of party, region, or ideology. This inevitably makes it impossible for a personality to be accepted without reservation by everyone.

Another factor is the fact that we are fed by a strong culture of distrust. Instead of building mutual respect, we often rush to find only the weaknesses of the other. Thus, even those who have given and give a lot, remain contested. The culture of distrust is ancient, because it is based on the biblical statement "it is difficult to be a prophet in your own village", but social networks have vitalized it as rarely before.

However, it is likely that the lion's share of this handicap lies in the lack of strong and prestigious institutions. When you don't have good institutions to produce and preserve shared memory, great figures remain rumored and suspected.

In this sense, the lack of common figures is not so much a lack of individuals, but a lack of a common consciousness. Only when society manages to overcome clan, ideological, and political divisions and accept that some people are worth more than our individual affiliations, only then are figures conceived that the entire nation follows.

More precisely, only then will we be able to assimilate all national values, values ??that we have modestly anyway, because we are a small people and most of the time we have had history not as a mother but as a stepmother.


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