Why I write, for whom, and why now

I write for what lives beyound the moment.

I served as a Presidential Adviser during a period of historic consequence. I crafted strategic silences and phrases that helped shape Romania’s image. Today, I write in my own voice—about the power of words in uncertain times, about the state, balance, and geopolitics. This is the space where words find their true weight. I write for those who understand that a well-crafted speech can alter the course of a state. About politics, about economics, and about the decision-making of those who today wield the sceptre and crown of power. Hidden deep between these two symbols lies responsibility as well—the very responsibility that has been absent towards Romanians for more than three decades. The sceptre and the crown are the instruments through which a people semantically define their highest values—the sum of their knowledge and wisdom, bearing witness to the unity of thought and sentiment of an entire nation. Everything Romania has ever aspired to be still resides within these symbols. Every stone laid in the foundation of this country was once a block of granite. A colossus. Upon it, with each passing decade of recklessness, cultural impoverishment, and indolence, we have poured layer upon layer of gravel. Once, the symbol signified recognition. It was through such symbols that the people acknowledged the legitimacy of an invested leader. Today, it remains only as the absurd emblem of the consequences we have accepted through the very hard-won right to choose freely—the right through which, even now, we continue to invest you with authority. Yet behind the weight of this entire semiotic architecture there has always stood a simple human being. Behind the weight of the crown, likewise. The distance between emperor and proletarian is determined, always—fundamentally, epistemically, and beyond dispute, sooner or later—exclusively by the latter.

Politics – Economics – Society – Memoirs of the future