Post by Wayne Hall on Jun 26, 2022 0:15:07 GMT -5
Losing confidence in the experts
On the right and on the left you hear their parrots saying: "Come on. It's OK. What's the problem? We've been vassals for 190 years." This is the prescribed line. But what do the experts say? Right and left. "OK. We've always been a protectorate. And now we're a protectorate." With no sovereignty in other words. "But we survived."
That's not how it is. We are talking about total dismantlement of states. In these conditions if it weren't for us we would really be wiped off the map. As has happened many times in similar historic periods. Unless we make our historical inheritance into a reality. And this time again there must be an ethnogenesis. I am sorry about the terminology, but this is what has to happen. Ethnogenesis always comes from below. It can't happen any other way. From below. Not from a power centre. Whatever that may be but particularly today's. From below. From the living forces of the people itself. On a new basis. Starting again from scratch. Demanding things that our grandfathers once regarded as given. And from that starting point starting to demand things that are more advanced. That's what we have to manage today. And this why, for that to happen it is natural that this people, which in any case will be summoned to battle, willy nilly - Kassomoulis said it, in his military memoirs, what did he say? He said: "Even the worst coward, who avoids the war like a curse, like a curse, because he is cowardly, will be obliged to give battle when history imposes it", i.e. he was under the occupation of Ibrahim and so on. We are in a similar situation today. We will be obliged. The whole of society will go, with such an intensification of conflict, and such showdowns with the forces imposing disintegration, that it will a historical situation unprecedented for the country. Whether and to what extent the outcome will be favourable for the people depends on whether there will be a new Philiki Etaireia in its midst which will function as a catalyst and counterbalance the discredit and disintegration it is being subjected to by the state or by the forces that are in operation today. But for this to happen we must pass through the purgatory of our previous obsolete consciousness. That is to say as a period to rid ourselves of all the mentalities, logics and conceptions which existed and, if you like, suppressed us spiritually, kept our consciousness shackled, demonically, throughout the previous historical period.
And this is the period we are going through. A purgatory. And like Dante's Purgatory, the purgatory of society is also accompanied by tears, pain, sorrow, and, naturally, expectation.
No political force, no subterfuge, no delusion, can find support in the historical consciousness that the Greek people has acquired today. They are not easily fooled. You can lead them to despair. You can lead them into an impasse. You can lead them through lack of information into not knowing what to choose. "What is all this?" That is logical. But you can't fool them as they were fooled in previous years. What they have endured is now historical fact. They have lived through it. What we said, some of us - we said it from 2009, 2010, or even before, when we were seen as more or less quaint: "OK. You put it very well, but that kind of thing isn't possible in Greece." It has happened. Already. The great majority has realized. They understand where things are headed. And are searching to find a way out. In their own way. As they themselves see it. That's how it must be. That's the way society works. That's the way the people must be. And they are not accountable to anybody. Only to themselves and to history.
It is we who must respond appropriately so as to set the tone. And the tone has been set. Don't let it take us by surprise. The historical conjunctures that give rise to the new, usually in polarized periods like the one we are living through at the moment, and exceptionally volatile. What would be difficult would be not to see the new factor, i.e. for the new factor not to have emerged. Dear people I would like to inform you that the new factor has arrived. It has been born, it is in the battle, and we will fight that battle to the end, so let's not be concerned. All that is required is that we last the distance.
And enduring does not have to do with our day-to-day problems, but with consciousness, good-heartedness and intelligence.
Mitsotakis:
If we lose confidence in the experts we will be more susceptible to the blandishments of facile and simplistic sloganizing. And I am not referring only to the "psekasmenoi" (i.e. the "tin foil hat wearers") but to those who are justifiably tired of this months-long escapade. So let justifiable political criticism be confined to politicians, starting with me.
If we lose confidence in the experts we will be more susceptible to the blandishments of facile and simplistic sloganizing. And I am not referring only to the "psekasmenoi" (i.e. the "tin foil hat wearers") but to those who are justifiably tired of this months-long escapade. So let justifiable political criticism be confined to politicians, starting with me.
Kazakis:
What is most significant is that we have the most sold-out, the most wretched, the most treasonous, political and social system, i.e. dominant order, in our country. What has it been? What are its origins, so that we don't lose our minds completely? And we have reached this point, a situation where, as was aptly said, a great proportion of the Greek people has lost what the villager in the olden days had, the villager who made the Revolution, or his children did, demanding land, and political power, in various ways: democracy in this place. They have lost their patriotism. And now this must be reborn. Because if it is not reborn we will be wiped off the map.
What is most significant is that we have the most sold-out, the most wretched, the most treasonous, political and social system, i.e. dominant order, in our country. What has it been? What are its origins, so that we don't lose our minds completely? And we have reached this point, a situation where, as was aptly said, a great proportion of the Greek people has lost what the villager in the olden days had, the villager who made the Revolution, or his children did, demanding land, and political power, in various ways: democracy in this place. They have lost their patriotism. And now this must be reborn. Because if it is not reborn we will be wiped off the map.
On the right and on the left you hear their parrots saying: "Come on. It's OK. What's the problem? We've been vassals for 190 years." This is the prescribed line. But what do the experts say? Right and left. "OK. We've always been a protectorate. And now we're a protectorate." With no sovereignty in other words. "But we survived."
That's not how it is. We are talking about total dismantlement of states. In these conditions if it weren't for us we would really be wiped off the map. As has happened many times in similar historic periods. Unless we make our historical inheritance into a reality. And this time again there must be an ethnogenesis. I am sorry about the terminology, but this is what has to happen. Ethnogenesis always comes from below. It can't happen any other way. From below. Not from a power centre. Whatever that may be but particularly today's. From below. From the living forces of the people itself. On a new basis. Starting again from scratch. Demanding things that our grandfathers once regarded as given. And from that starting point starting to demand things that are more advanced. That's what we have to manage today. And this why, for that to happen it is natural that this people, which in any case will be summoned to battle, willy nilly - Kassomoulis said it, in his military memoirs, what did he say? He said: "Even the worst coward, who avoids the war like a curse, like a curse, because he is cowardly, will be obliged to give battle when history imposes it", i.e. he was under the occupation of Ibrahim and so on. We are in a similar situation today. We will be obliged. The whole of society will go, with such an intensification of conflict, and such showdowns with the forces imposing disintegration, that it will a historical situation unprecedented for the country. Whether and to what extent the outcome will be favourable for the people depends on whether there will be a new Philiki Etaireia in its midst which will function as a catalyst and counterbalance the discredit and disintegration it is being subjected to by the state or by the forces that are in operation today. But for this to happen we must pass through the purgatory of our previous obsolete consciousness. That is to say as a period to rid ourselves of all the mentalities, logics and conceptions which existed and, if you like, suppressed us spiritually, kept our consciousness shackled, demonically, throughout the previous historical period.
And this is the period we are going through. A purgatory. And like Dante's Purgatory, the purgatory of society is also accompanied by tears, pain, sorrow, and, naturally, expectation.
No political force, no subterfuge, no delusion, can find support in the historical consciousness that the Greek people has acquired today. They are not easily fooled. You can lead them to despair. You can lead them into an impasse. You can lead them through lack of information into not knowing what to choose. "What is all this?" That is logical. But you can't fool them as they were fooled in previous years. What they have endured is now historical fact. They have lived through it. What we said, some of us - we said it from 2009, 2010, or even before, when we were seen as more or less quaint: "OK. You put it very well, but that kind of thing isn't possible in Greece." It has happened. Already. The great majority has realized. They understand where things are headed. And are searching to find a way out. In their own way. As they themselves see it. That's how it must be. That's the way society works. That's the way the people must be. And they are not accountable to anybody. Only to themselves and to history.
It is we who must respond appropriately so as to set the tone. And the tone has been set. Don't let it take us by surprise. The historical conjunctures that give rise to the new, usually in polarized periods like the one we are living through at the moment, and exceptionally volatile. What would be difficult would be not to see the new factor, i.e. for the new factor not to have emerged. Dear people I would like to inform you that the new factor has arrived. It has been born, it is in the battle, and we will fight that battle to the end, so let's not be concerned. All that is required is that we last the distance.
And enduring does not have to do with our day-to-day problems, but with consciousness, good-heartedness and intelligence.