Editorial TrueWind Impossible is nothing
While Greece is living days of frenzy, the most dynamic part of the population, young people and active citizens, waste their energy hanging around in squares wearing the costume of “revolution”. It sounds like the case of a smart aleck rat that has escaped from the sewer to reach the light and now boasts of being the real Mediterranean type while at the same time it munches away in ignorance at peanut butter flavor rodenticide.
What political party or government has ever taken seriously into account the social consent when there has never been social cohesion? Overthrows and objections require fixed and studied posi- tions, discipline and, most important of all, accepting one’s responsibilities. How many of us actually know what the IMF, the borrowing terms, the macro and middle-term schemes and other such ab- breviations mean? I admit knowing little more than the skin-deep easy readings or a talk over pints in some haunt near Syntagma Square. However, a dynamic overthrower ought to be fully loaded, ideologically at least, to be a disciplined good soldier and stand by his leader.
What happened in Syntagma square was the easy way out, the laziest reaction judging from the results: flimsy, considering the defensive approach to the matter by the people who run this country. It seems as if it never happened. In some cases it turned lowbrow and fascist against some fellow citizens whereas some of us saw the meaning of a life they never had. At the same time, some of us are trying to pull strings to find a job in a public service ready to go bust, just to get themselves a sponsor for their strikes.
Even if the requests presented in Syntagma Square amidst belly dance music in a football match atmosphere -always tagged on Facebook with “boos” or “taking a break at the holiday house”- were satisfied, who would come to the helm and which direction would he give to this ship? Our requests need to be realistic. We cannot ask a wrestler to start pirouetting on a tight rope knowing that if he falls everything will collapse.
In our case, all these years the wrestler (Greece) has been savoring snacks and profiteroles at cafes and beaches and now we ask him to participate in a World Figure Skating Championship and demand that he compete against the featherweight German athlete of 42 kilos. No matter how many stores we bust, how many fires we start, there is no way an overweight, hairy, retired wrestler could ever make us proud. How could he ever succeed?
HE COULD SUCCEED, but only next season and only if he keeps away from beaches and desserts, works strenuously 24 hours a day, forgetting about working hours, devoted to the cause, slamming the doors in the face of snitches, pinheads, kickbackers. He has to burn fat and get back in shape, since he is actually well-built and has the potential. He is muscular thanks to Tourism, with fine abdominals thanks to the dairy production and cattle breeding, strong legs ready to support power production from the sun and the wind and a sharp mind thanks to a rich cultural heritage. If he works out hard and puts everything in action, he will not only pirouette against the German champion, he will also show her the “Empirican” interpretation of the Great Erotic in the locker rooms.
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