Over the past few years I have sadly realized that we rolling down an inclined plane at high speed.
On paper Greece looks successful: stable economy, GDP growth, confident statements Kyriakos Mitsotakis. But behind the official figures is a reality where most Greeks struggle to survive every month. Food, rent, utility bills, medicine – everything is becoming more expensive. People live in fear: “what tomorrow?”
Scandals and fiction of justice
One day they arrest dozens of officials on the case OPECPEPE, the next day they are released. Farmers have been waiting years for compensation for losing their herds to foot-and-mouth disease, but money is “always on the way.” Life moves, but everything stands still.
Priorities of power
When government promises reduce prices by 2000 goods, discounts apply not to milk, not baby food, not meat, but… clothespins, charcoal tablets and crab shells. At the same time, the entire government apparatus is not discussing inflation, but who should clean up Monument to the Unknown Soldier and is it possible to protest nearby?
Premier Kyriakos Mitsotakis hastily signs the law, transferring protection of the monument Ministry of Defense and in fact prohibiting rallies. The reason was the hunger strike of the father of one of the 57 victims of the Tempi disaster. The law did not solve a single everyday problem – but it diverted attention for several days, and government media pool turned a non-existent problem into a “national agenda”.
Political comedy and social tragedy
Next is the singer’s state funeral Dionysis Savvopoulos. The entire cabinet of ministers is present. Media close to the authorities attack the opposition for “disrespect” for the deceased. And society asks: should grief now also be a party one?
A society losing control
When everything else falls apart aggression remains. People act like they’re on the edge: they fight on the roads, they get stabbed over an argument, teenagers drink and die, violence in schools gets out of control. The country lives in psychotic mode, and many – like the author – prefer to isolate themselves in their “circle of despair” rather than shout in the street with others.
And the cherry on the cake is the Minister of Health calling citizens “pathetic”blaming them themselves for the poverty to which the policies of his own government led. Is it possible to come up with a more cynical definition of the era?
The result is the results of the survey when people chooses “chaos” instead of imaginary stability.
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