Editorial TrueWind IT’S A PENALTY!
I cannot believe that a country could ever get to such a terrible dead end. No, I don’t live elsewhere, say on cloud nine. However, having a really well-paid team of executives and hundreds of high intelligence (and high pay) advisors on every single matter, having a great academic community that boasts distinguished figures among its members, it’s a wonder how the management of public matters is not simply problematic or inefficient but the laughing stock round the globe. Yet, I wonder if the personal business of the top state functionaries is in a similar condition. Are their family matters blurred and stagnant like the social welfare matters? Do these people discuss top-priority family matters for six months, reviewing, revisiting and passing judgments just like old people do in the Greek coffee shops? Cutting a long story short, do they follow the same policy when it comes to their personal, private affairs? On the contrary, taking a quick look around, we can see that everything is working perfectly well – business, finance everything pertaining to their home lies within a well- protected frame with guaranteed efficiency in the present and in the future. Moreover, an insurmountable wall, a sometimes metaphysical walled enclave, has been created around them so that all the talks and fuss about “who is to blame” never reaches the point of retribution.
I can’t explain or justify the fact that the Supreme Authority responsible for safeguarding our cultural heritage is not castigated for having failed to protect an archaeological site thus resulting in hundreds of museum exhibits disappearing. The list of ravaged public property has no end, but none of the state functionaries is truly liable since this is a matter out of their field, outside their private house doors. The high executives in the Ministry of Culture are below zero and their Head comes clean, safe and sound with a mere letter of resignation.
an insurmountable wall, a sometimes metaphysical walled en- clave, has been created around them so that all the talks and fuss about “who is to blame” never reaches the point of retribution
He showed integrity of character as if he had publicly performed hara-kiri, whereas on the same night he was sitting straightlaced and unharmed next to the fireplace waiting for his butler to usher his guests. The scene described above is repeated every night, following different scenarios: he has just sold Vatopedio, he has signed an agreement without having read the contents, he has ordered submarines to guard the Pentagon, he has left hospitals with no supplies and personnel. No penalties, no public request for mercy whatsoever. Under these circumstances, the Greek people are called up to bear the heavy burden and the real problem is that they have not yet found a government to share it with and handle it surefootedly.
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