Athens, 17 July 2013
Dear All,
This letter
was initially intended to be addressed to Wolfgang Schäuble – who has the nerve
and the stubbornness to visit my country tomorrow – as well as to members of
the Greek and the European Parliaments. However, what is happening to Greece, concerns
all the inhabitants of this planet, as much as what is happening to Cyprus,
Spain, Italy, Portugal, Ireland, France, Turkey, Egypt, Gaza, Iraq, Syria, the
Balkans, Vietnam, directly involves us all.
Wolfgang
Schäuble is a comfortable personification of the surrealistically legalized
immorality and the greedy insanity of Globalization. We, rather they, are expecting him to pay us a visit and test the obedience of
his governmental subjects. Herr Schäuble pays
visits, while he and the German Government emphatically refuse to pay back to Greece
the billions due to my country against the WWII German damages, as well as
against the obligatory loan that the German occupators grabbed from our
Treasury. Actually, the total amount of real money that Germany owes to Greece
exceeds the total amount of the weird and questionable, to say the least, “Greek loan”.
Dear All,
Greece, Hellas, is the Mother of Science, Art, Culture. Hellas is the Source of
the Light of Civilization, while our language is the perfect expression of
Humanity. I do not intend to dwell on the ancient glory. What matters to all of
us is the present. Misguided by our mass enthusiasm for kicking out the
military junta in 1974, we allowed untrustworthy and incapable people to govern
our country, repeatedly voting for them and their family members. We allowed,
by our democratic approval, greedy and superficial people to lead our country
to a moral, social and financial catastrophe. It is our political fault. However, it would be unfair to exterminate a Nation because it has corrupted
and short-sighted politicians. Mistakes are corrected. Mistakes are lessons.
For some reason, unknown to us now, Greece is a protagonist in Global
Politics, being a negative example.
Econometrics
and Statistics can be very dangerous to the stability of the Human Society’s
network, when taken for granted.
Since 2010, when the Greek Prime Minister and his team made the deal with the international bankers and other power groups, the
majority of the Greek population has been suffering a galloping impovertization that is
miserably drying us of our beautiful qualities, dragging our blood, both
metaphorically and physically.
One
employee is being fired every 18 minutes. The approximately 2.000.000 of
jobless citizens, in a population of 10.500.000 and a work force of 7.500.000 approximately,
are increased by one new unemployed citizen every eighteen minutes! These figures are the
important ones! These figures kill our co-citizens. These figures are murder to
our society, our dignity, our everyday life, our future, our children!
There is so
much talk in the national and international Media about the installments that Greece will or will
not receive from the international Shylocks,
to whom Greece has or does not have the financial resources to pay back,
regardless of the fact that all this money is a virtual reality that has
nothing to do with old fashioned cash. The Greek tragedy annoyingly resembles
the court scene in The Merchant of Venice.
I do hope that a Shakespearian solution will close the curtain.
