Archive note: This text comes from the old archive of Nomika Epilekta and is preserved with care for historical and informational reading.

Was the so-called "crisis" caused by a lack of politics or by a lack of money?

The crisis is due to the lack of money to cover state needs, which grew after power was taken by the party of the late "ethnarch" and, from 1981 onward, by the son of the "old man of democracy".

Both personality-centered parties based their rise on the distribution of public money, and after the emptying of the state funds, their maintenance in power was initially achieved through the distribution of money obtained from usurious loans.

Money was used for the purchase of votes that our compatriots sold to the feudal lords and their heirs, assuming full responsibility for the consequences.

The parties of the heirs of Karamanlism and Papandreism, by wasting money, undermined the national economy, destroyed the structures of the state and society, and prepared the transformation of the inhabitants of our country from citizens of Europe into beggars of the world.

These observations are now made by most people who, however, when they were receiving the effortless money distributed by their representatives in parliament, did not want to know the economic condition of the country, nor were they interested in the sources from which the sums they pocketed were flowing.

The majority of the people enjoyed the temporary goods of artificial prosperity, without reflection, without checking the representatives they chose, and without caring about the observance of the traditional principles of morality, honesty and virtue...

The slogan "bread and circuses" prevailed, the Roman "panes et circenses". Bread was the sinecure jobs, the two, three and four cars of the family, the privately owned home and the country villa, and the debauchery: maintaining, besides the family, a mistress; visiting the respectable establishments of low-grade nightclubs; pilgrimage to Mykonos and Thira; a forty-day liturgy at the casino; a procession at the racecourse; display of wealth, from stolen money, at receptions and celebrations of "democracy"; and a reference in the wise Hatzinikolaou's Real News to the romances of the Varvitsiotis women and their like.

As for spectacles, we limit ourselves to football, which constitutes the new great idea of Hellenism.

Let us not forget that while democratic citizens were burning the remains of neo-classicism in Athens, our representatives in the palaces of parliament were watching a football match with devotion...

Consequently, the country's problem is political, and from it the economic problem sprang. And the economic problem is not solved because the solution of the political problem did not come first.

The political problem is solved by bringing forward other politicians, outside the crowd of those currently active, who will have qualifications, knowledge, abilities and, above all, honesty, diligence, consistency and ethos. They will be free from the Balkan complexes of "we are always right and others are conspiring against us".

We need a radical change of mentality. We must escape the narrow limits of Balkan chauvinisms and open ourselves to the air of civilization, knowledge and logic, acquiring true education and the virtues of the modern age, which the majority foolishly condemns.

The 21st century requires peoples with intelligence, without the rigidities and complexes we carry. These are defects that pull us backward, toward underdevelopment and misery.

Let what we have suffered until now become lessons. Our conflicts with one another, monomanias, egotisms, tendency toward conspiracy scenarios, and attachment to ideologies that have been surpassed and to complex-ridden fixations must be set aside.

Claims, strikes, demonstrations, occupations, clashes, arsons, frenzies, extremes, patriotic dithyrambs and other third-world manifestations must now be limited and replaced by political seriousness, responsibility in choosing our representatives, real work, solidarity, consistency, honesty, ethos, reconciliation and control of those who break the law.

We need new political morals and social upgrading, with the spread of education to all, without discrimination and without the obstacles of the thugs of education, which has degenerated into ignorance and delinquency.

A look at the filthy "university" buildings and a comparison with their counterparts in civilized countries shows that in the field of education we have retreated into complete lack of cultivation. We are in a pitch-dark educational Middle Ages, and the city of Pallas no longer exists even as a memory...

In vain we mourn and blame the representatives whom we ourselves, the majority, elected.

Instead of mourning, let us become angry at our defects and at the political fraudsters whom we admire on television channels as they give instructions and solemn advice, foremost among them Tsovolas, "give it all", and the two elderly professors who repent; as they make recommendations and chew over, in wooden language, the nonsense about change on "social terms" and the rest of the rubbish, which instead of repelling people raises the percentages of the fraudsters who ruminate on it...

Care and vigilance are needed in choosing new representatives, because we do not possess suitable criteria. Our criteria need to be replaced with others that will guide us toward the capable and worthy.

Given the discrediting and collapse of the political parties, various people appear as "national saviors", democrats and friends of the people.

They make statements in favor of the drachma, against the euro, in favor of independence and dignity and against submission and subservience, with incendiary speeches and demagogic declarations. In reality, these are the familiar nonentities who, after serving various party formations and failing, found the opportunity to shake off their insignificance and come to the foreground in order to replace those already satisfied and satisfy their own greed.

We are called to distinguish the new political fraudsters and leave them on the margins, choosing the truly worthy. Sobriety, logic, experience and love for the homeland will help; now more than ever it needs our mind and not our impulses.
E. Papadakis