Why are we unequal?

2023-05-28 15:07:45Pikëpamje SHKRUAR NGA MONIKA STAFA
Why are we unequal?
Monica Staff

Every day we experience events or happenings that no matter how much we try to push them away thinking that they don't belong to us, on the contrary, they are there. At war with our shadow that keeps them at bay. Our past passes through them. And from them, our future.

By reading the present, perhaps it is a little easier to read the future. Therefore, starting from the political context in which we live, looking at Europe, the region, the world in general, fortunately today we understand that what happens far away from us are things that will affect us very soon.

A little later of course. But they will touch us.

Siç ndodhi me tërheqjen e Perandorisë Osmane. Me shpalljen e Pavarësisë. Me rënien e komunizmit. Me fundin e tranzicionit dhe mbërritjen e një kapitalizmi që po sjell pabarazi të theksuar sociale. Mes njerëzve. Mes shtresave dhe mes tokës.

Mes shumë pikëpyetjeve në raport me qëllimet që kemi pasur kur komunizmi ra, ajo që po na shqetëson të gjithëve më së shumti është pikërisht ky problem.

Pabarazia sociale.

Në këto vite të fundit ne e harruam ëndrrën europiane për të rrokur flamurin blu të saj. Harruam rrugën drejt integrimit. Ajo na u bë aq e gjatë sa tani nuk e duam më.

Harruam bashkimin me Kosovën. Luftën e saj për pavarësi dhe flamur. Letërsinë apo dhe sinorët e tjerë kulturorë që fatkeqësisht ende na ndajnë.

Already, the "London" Albanians say that this is a problem that does not concern us. Because humanity is not inclined to think about the future. She thinks about today. And today is the inequality between each other.

But what is inequality? Where does this phenomenon come from? How is it formed in a society with a democratic system?

In Roman literature it is written that an increasingly unequal society loses its ties to democracy.

Wealth is good, it says. But too much wealth distorts you. These are some of the lessons of the last years of the Roman republic.

2000 years later they still remain lessons.

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In 33 years of electoral campaigns in Albania, we must not forget that the populism of the rhetoric of the political class mainly came from the texts of the Latin school. This happened in Albania, as it also happens in America. And in Europe you will love it. In the end, we learn from them.

Did not this latest bill on wages serve as a repulsive reflection these days from this humanity that had been talked about so loudly in the campaign? Supported so strongly? Sing that loud? Thank you so much? 

When leaders take power at their desks, without question about the many literatures that serve them, among them are those of the Roman Republic.

The leadership that leads our country is certainly not Julius Caesar, Marcus Licinius Crassus or Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus. Except maybe in dreams.

But their electoral campaigns owe much to Caesar's uncle, Gaius Marius.

Gaius Marius taught Caesar to win elections several years in a row, with rhetoric based on attacking the system that Rome's elite had built. Its aristocratic layer.

Not only that, but also giving hope and faith to the poor and seeing them as the only potential to develop the empire. With the promise that it would even make them rich.

Doesn't this lecture sound ridiculous? Who does she look like to you?

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What happened in Rome is a lesson for all modern republics. Roman history teaches the citizens of its modern descendants the incredible dangers that come from political deadlocks and violence in politics, society and family as a verbal phenomenon but not only.

It could not be more clear that when its citizens look to the future while their leaders engage in these evil and dark behaviors, their republic is in mortal danger.

We must not forget that early Rome prospered not because it was a fairer democratic system, but because it was generally more equal, more open, and therefore more democratic than its rivals.

None of that famous Roman triumvirate (Julius Caesar, Marcus Licinius Crassus or Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus) implemented that populist strategy.

Because all three were wildly hungry for money and power. But who has realized it in us, in the modern era?

The end of that trio of monsters was marked with blood. In 2022, the strange thing is that this Latin lesson still continues. Even with his loss.

Rome after them marked a new phase. That of undoing it.

What is that system that will be lost in our time?


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