Hey guys! How've you been? Hoping that this past month or so has treated everyone well. Can't say the same unfortunately. One thing I've yet to mention is that I live in a most troubled country. A country filled with people that refuse to look at their problems until they are literally pushed to the edge of the cliff. That country is Greece.
Greece used to be a grand nation. It's people were capable of massive things. This is the land from which all philosophy, sciences, politics, sports and other important things hailed from. In the ancient years the progressiveness of it's people led them to be so advanced that they were revered by the rest of the then known world. Basically there wasn't much contact with other countries or civilizations back then, so the Greeks just communicated with each other. Stone tablets found in Crete are proof that Greece was also the origin of the first fully developed alphabet.
But the Greeks were a proud race. There were lots of them, Athenians, Spartans, Myconians, Thevans, and they are all ancestors of the Greeks of today. And because there were a lot of them, there were wars. Greeks would be at war from ancient times. Either with each other (like in the trojan war or in the hundred-year war) or with neighboring nations (Persians). Most of the time this is what they would do. Which is why there was never truly a dominant force in the Greek lands until they all united and became the Vyzantinium Empire.
Greeks were always ravaged by wars. In the early years, then afterwards when they started to come in contact with other civilizations they would usually be at war with them (like with the Ottoman Empire which led to the fall of Constantinople -nowadays Istanbul- in 1453). And even after that in the later years, they were involved in both World Wars.
In fact, it's World War II that has left the biggest scar on this land. Being under foreign rule for so long, they became suspicious and began to think only of themselves. Their own pockets, their own advantage. There was a lot of mistrust during the war because of the fact that the Germans would offer money to anyone who would give them information for any rebellious movement that was going on at the time. Others took this to their advantage to gain the trust of the Germans and others tried to hide as best they could, so they began turning away from each other. This is what turned the Greeks into what they are today.
There is constant complaint for anything that doesn't satisfy them, but very little will to do something to change it. They vote whomever promises to give them a good job instead of who is better for the land. They constantly want, but do not want to give. They keep thinking that someone has wronged them, never thinking about what they themselves have done wrong.
This comes from the family, the household. When someone raises their children with the mentality to only take and never give back (just because he lived in another time and age), it is only natural that the kids grow old thinking of ways to "get rich quick", take advantage of others and do as less work as possible.
And yet, even after all that, Greeks maintain some false sense of pride. In their own minds they somehow think themselves superior to others and try to outwit them, while in the meantime everyone else is doing the exact same thing to them, the result being that nobody gets what they want so they all end up arguing.
This country is now broke. Not only economically, but morally. It has nothing to do with the Greeks from the past, despite the same name. Children smoke from 11 years old, older people don't know what to do with themselves so they go out stealing, murdering or even going so far as to commit suicide. And all anyone does is to blame the politicians, from their couches or chairs, in front of some television.
Everyone is trying to get out. But this pride, arrogant, selfish race of people could become like a plague to the world. Greece has fallen. How many other nations must it take with it?
Greece used to be a grand nation. It's people were capable of massive things. This is the land from which all philosophy, sciences, politics, sports and other important things hailed from. In the ancient years the progressiveness of it's people led them to be so advanced that they were revered by the rest of the then known world. Basically there wasn't much contact with other countries or civilizations back then, so the Greeks just communicated with each other. Stone tablets found in Crete are proof that Greece was also the origin of the first fully developed alphabet.
But the Greeks were a proud race. There were lots of them, Athenians, Spartans, Myconians, Thevans, and they are all ancestors of the Greeks of today. And because there were a lot of them, there were wars. Greeks would be at war from ancient times. Either with each other (like in the trojan war or in the hundred-year war) or with neighboring nations (Persians). Most of the time this is what they would do. Which is why there was never truly a dominant force in the Greek lands until they all united and became the Vyzantinium Empire.
Greeks were always ravaged by wars. In the early years, then afterwards when they started to come in contact with other civilizations they would usually be at war with them (like with the Ottoman Empire which led to the fall of Constantinople -nowadays Istanbul- in 1453). And even after that in the later years, they were involved in both World Wars.
In fact, it's World War II that has left the biggest scar on this land. Being under foreign rule for so long, they became suspicious and began to think only of themselves. Their own pockets, their own advantage. There was a lot of mistrust during the war because of the fact that the Germans would offer money to anyone who would give them information for any rebellious movement that was going on at the time. Others took this to their advantage to gain the trust of the Germans and others tried to hide as best they could, so they began turning away from each other. This is what turned the Greeks into what they are today.
There is constant complaint for anything that doesn't satisfy them, but very little will to do something to change it. They vote whomever promises to give them a good job instead of who is better for the land. They constantly want, but do not want to give. They keep thinking that someone has wronged them, never thinking about what they themselves have done wrong.
This comes from the family, the household. When someone raises their children with the mentality to only take and never give back (just because he lived in another time and age), it is only natural that the kids grow old thinking of ways to "get rich quick", take advantage of others and do as less work as possible.
And yet, even after all that, Greeks maintain some false sense of pride. In their own minds they somehow think themselves superior to others and try to outwit them, while in the meantime everyone else is doing the exact same thing to them, the result being that nobody gets what they want so they all end up arguing.
This country is now broke. Not only economically, but morally. It has nothing to do with the Greeks from the past, despite the same name. Children smoke from 11 years old, older people don't know what to do with themselves so they go out stealing, murdering or even going so far as to commit suicide. And all anyone does is to blame the politicians, from their couches or chairs, in front of some television.
Everyone is trying to get out. But this pride, arrogant, selfish race of people could become like a plague to the world. Greece has fallen. How many other nations must it take with it?
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