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By Arben ILIAZI Art and politics suddenly find themselves facing one another and can both permit and attack each other. While politics felt inferior, envious and empty, since it had never been able to gather so many people in Skënderbej Square, the art of the renowned Swiss singer DJ Bobo exchanged magnificent messages with thousands of other faces, like the one that DJ Bobo’s music inspired, for informative and successful storytelling. The ovations and Sunday’s merriment in the capital seemed like an exhilarating challenge to the pathological rallies that torment people, leaving no shelter for alternatives. Art and culture can become an agenda for a culture of peace. This is how it can the ordinary torments… [?] ...brought many people to Skanderbeg Square, the art of the well-known Swiss singer, DJ Bobo, exchanged dizzying messages with thousands of citizens. Art and citizens deciphered one another. They sought and found sincere, direct relationships with great thirst, as if we had come from the jungle. Imagine what psychological damage misguided politics has inflicted on citizens, so much so that they hurried to drown all their sorrows in the music of a concert. After DJ Bobo’s rap music, people understood how they could save their intimate sphere. The concert was an antidepressant, allowing them to experience moments of authenticity. Political adventurism, with its heartless selfishness, has created a tautology of escalating conflicts of interest. Opposed to this selfishness is a European sensibility, reflecting an ever-growing understanding of the effort to break free from the old rhythms of unchanging ideas and move toward new levels of creativity. The important thing is that Albanians do not let themselves be used by politics revolving in a suicidal cycle. We must ad- ... to the problems tormenting people, without finding shelter in culture of peace. In this way, new ideas can emerge, new communities can be created, opening up beyond the boundaries of existence and ensuring growth. We Albanians must learn to exist, which means exchanging clear messages with one another through culture, both giving and receiving. There is nothing better for building peace and democracy than embracing art and culture, so that you do not feel in conflict with yourself, the state, and society. Once we have done this, we must hope that politics, too, will surrender to culture. Only then will the true democratic history begin, and people will enjoy genuine democratic values. Although the capital of political hope is not impressive, democracy is the only political system with the moral strength to be reborn, even when it is killed. The important thing is not to bathe twice in the same river, as Heraclitus advised some 2,500 years ago.

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Interview: Mr. Godo comments on the new political realities • Law 7501, a litmus test for cooperation between opposition forces • The coalition has not resolved any of the fundamental problems Interview: Mr. Godo comments on the new political realities The wall of minds has still not been torn down • Law 7501, a litmus test for cooperation between opposition forces • The coalition has not resolved any of the fundamental problems

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