YOU COULD

2026-10-17 18:14:32 / IDE NGA AUREL PLASARI
YOU COULD

By Aurel Plasari

This boy defeated you. What an entire official opposition could not do, this boy did to you: he defeated you, even humiliated you, desecrated you.

 He did it by protesting, by reacting, by disagreeing with you, by disagreeing with your politics, by questioning your authority, that is: with the strongest possible weapon, which is thinking differently.

 Remember that it will be forgotten where you were chained like the martyrs in the Middle Ages? In the most appropriate place for your shame: at the gates of the Ministry labeled as "Education". It matters little now when you will leave, how you will leave, why you will leave. You will never be able to erase this stain from the history of your government.

Here he is in the hospital bed, wounded by you, guarded by policemen who are no longer ours, and he is reading. He is one of those students who, even in the most unfavorable conditions, read books. And I remember Heine, when the Prussian policemen searched their luggage - just as you search the bags of teenagers today - and the poet mocked them, saying to himself: Why are you rummaging through your pants and shirts, you fools, when I have a library in my head more dangerous than all the authors you have banned in Prussia?! 

How will you deal with libraries in the minds of another generation, who thinks differently than you?

How I envy him!

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