"No society has been made better by those who only insult and excite, but by those who see things positively and optimistically."
Unlike every year, the climate of our society at the end of the year was not what December and the holiday season usually follow. Although a society eager and sympathetic to our culture, this time there was an unforeseen blow by nature. But even at a time like this, misty, turbulent and sad, the desire to celebrate life and turn a blind eye to light is inevitable, it is human.
So this year's festival also took on that goal - to come up with a new mission, to put more quality stone on the historic wall of 58 years, in the end, to do something different. Let's comment at the end of the day - done well or not so well - it's very important to say that "it was a new thing".
As part of the many innovations that the Festival of Song took, producers Vera Grabocka and Alketa Vejsiu chose to create a space for the Word among the song, the festival's focus - one that our whole society desperately needs. In these nights dedicated to good music, the monologues "Mozart Salier" and "The Joker" were never more current than they are now.
Innovations are hard to embrace right away, even when they are obviously successful - even this quality of our society. There will always be criticism, controversy, commentsâ?¦ Of course, ratings too.
But in the end, everyone is in one mind. Even after this final. Fest 58 was differentâ?¦
If so, the goal has been achieved.
Monologue, Night 1
Moxart Salier
By the end of this year, many young Albanians will continue to wish that next year they will be able to fulfill their dreams in Albania. Some choose to go outside.
In the context of the Global Citizen of the world, it makes sense. And this is the best case scenario. They leave, get educated, work and return to give Albania what it deserves.
The question is how should Albania keep the people who are worth it, those who have talent? Those who deserve it and live here, who have no choice but to leave.
There is little talk about meritocracy, the flour that cooks Albania's success!
We remember doctors when we have an emergency and forget that they need the air, water and sunshine of our lives.
We are reminded of the hands-on artists who make their mark when they become famous overseas and the whole world is humbled.
Remember to talk about any Albanian at NASA or anyone else who invents an application in Silicon Valley just when we read sporadic news.
I am very happy that at this festival they have requested a ticket for children and adolescents. Because the world belongs to young people, and we, even with the example of this festival, have to learn that prizes and competitions are deservedly won.
The exodus of Albanians began with the opening of embassy gates and overcrowded ferries with refugees.
It's been a long time since the song "Jon," "I came in a desperate, painful time, Jon, when boats like ghosts across the sea with adventures cried Liberta.
The sea became a mountain of people and the earth a sea of tearsâ?¦ â?
There are plenty of good Albanians who have decided to feed their lives, jobs and dreams here.
For this very reason, Albania needs to create more spaces so that young people can build a decent and decent life in Albania with their efforts, skills and abilities. We have to applaud for the talent when we have it here, not when they become prominent heads in the world.
Albania is a country blessed by geography, climate, wealth. But it is a place where people need to learn to give way to talent with merit. All of us must applaud the capable man, who builds life on talent, work and values. And to reward him. Artists in Albania are aging poor, like Van Gogh and Modigliani. We must reward artists!
Albanians are people with extraordinary ability to learn and adopt. They embrace the cloud as few nations in the world, they merge with every progressive idea with extraordinary vitality.
* No country is made of the worst and most incompetent. Nations are made of the best and the most proficient.
* No society has been promoted by the mediocre and the unthankful, it has been promoted by those who create.
* No society is advanced by those who rob, but those who build.
* No society has been promoted by those who truly speak, but by those who do.
* No society has been made better by those who only insult and excite, but by those who see things positively and optimistically.
Albania needs wise Albanians! If the wise do not find themselves here, they will lead us into every area of the mediocre, and that would never bring progress.
Albania, long lasting,
we have you as a parent
and for you we will fight
until we inherit you.
To you all, day and night,
we think long,
you never break down, you never give up,
you do not stumble or stumble,
you have all my beauties
all the goodness,
you have lots of flower fields.
big rivers without sleep,
mountains high and clothed,
the edge of the laughing sea,
Give me a glimmer of light
with all goodness.
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Albanians are talented, energetic, passionate, but should strive to persuade the system of freedom to compete and meritocracy to emerge as a Mozart and not a Salier.
Monologue, Night 2
Joker
If you've seen The Joker, I believe you've made your interpretation of the movie. Joker, in relation to society, was a fragile, vulnerable guy that society was playing with.
About his character swirl: lies and truth; sincerity with fraud; innocence with violence; the joy of playing with humiliation; the child in the pure spirit and the savages of hatred.
Today, every citizen is a journalist. With the phone in hand, everyone has the freedom to say his word, but freedom without responsibility is anarchy of chaos.
It is human that everyone dreams of waking up to the referee in the middle of the crowd, to be the one who separates the good from the bad. This evolution has been made today by technology that creates a communicative journalist from everyone holding a smart phone and who today has become a former subject when it comes time to become an object that can handle any subject that would She wanted.
To calm down; there is no single absolute truth, except the dramatic fact that absolute truth does not exist. Truth and falsehood are like black and white on the face of the clown, which makes you laugh, makes you cry.
We all meet today with those who are called "Haters". Being "haters" is a social status today and that is terrible. Being a "hater" is a shame. Intimidating someone else violently and making them feel weak, worthless, unworthy is not fun. It provokes rebellion, revolt, sows hatred. And society doesn't need your hatred. The Joker went crazy, because society killed him, your hatred turned into a clown that entertained children into criminals.
This is what you do, Haters!
Then there is politics and systems. Only a few of those in power speak and believe in true ideals. Systems should be a function of people's lives and welfare, not those of the rulers.
And again the media deeply hurt the Joker and did not calculate his sensitivity. Because the media, the fourth power, is often deadly, harsh, it doesn't save you. It artificially uses people to make shows, uses news without any filter to generate clicks, because clicks bring money, and money is power. We justify our choices by saying "that's what the public wants". No, that's how we fed them. While Steve Jobs invented the Iphone, people were saying Nokia was an invention. We, the media people, have a duty to give people quality food. It's like saying "The universe gives me meaning" when in fact "I am the one giving meaning to the Universe".
Again the Joker killed the Media because the Media did not spare him.
American Joker or desperate clowns from the US or Albania, from Kosovo or Germany, need no critical moralist excursions. But I'd be happy if, even a single man in this room, that guy over there, that lady beyond, that gentleman under a little taller, think even for a moment: Alketa is modestly trying and yes humbly appeals for more breathing when sharpening hate speech, throwing the stone of punishment, killing with contempt. A lesser stone thrown upon the innocent, even a better world for anyone!
The war under the banner of hatred proclaims all losers: its losers too lose.
It is divine for the strong to think of the weak, while the Joker should simply be a clown entertaining children and making the world fun and laughingâ?¦
