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The systematic rebellion of citizens in Albania has a standard justification, in which everything is considered motivated, from the breaking of the neon lights of institutions. But the absurdity of these rulers is clearly evident when they consider the revolts of the sra-istë as political rebellions incited by opposition forces. On the road toward the dimensions of an anti-law revolt. The mentality of this decade has abandoned Albanian citizens, [with] the fixed idea that here it is entirely normal to destroy institutions and, moreover, along the way one can even take some official or minister hostage, of the kind this decade has produced more of than wheat and oats. Trying to get rich within a month, the inhabitants of the Albanian universe want to feel the breath of rulers who come to power weighing 60 kilograms and leave with a net weight of 120 kilograms, not counting the weight of their portfolios and swollen pockets, thanks to their “honesty.” In this case, the rulers’ perverse morality—“Come on, let’s take it from the national wealth,” “let’s privatize customs,” etc.—makes citizens feel inferior and despised if they do not invent indirect ways to survive, thereby showing [their disregard for] institutional rules—[text continues, cut off] ... of their Renaissance appears clearly when they consider the revolts of the srafistëve as political rebellions incited by opposition forces. In fact, today the Albanian state itself resembles a giant speedboat floating in the murky waters of corruption, unable to find a safe shore. But at the heart of events lies the absolute truth of institutional nonexistence, where the state of nobodies seeks to restore its authority through vulgar collaboration with criminal gangs. Goethe, in one of his ballads, writes about a man who was afraid to draw water at night and called on the spirits for help. But after drawing water from the well, he found himself in a difficult situation because he could not get rid of these spirits; collaborating with them had put him in a difficult position. Thus, for the country’s governments and institutions to gain the authority necessary to calm the country, they must absolutely break away from cooperation with gangs and crime, through which they won the elections.

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