Parafrosini

When you are living in crisis for 10 years, it is no longer something passing. Especially if there is no end in sight. It becomes your way of life. Every hope withers after 5-6 years, because you have to adjust to the new conditions or suffer the consequences for waiting for things to return to what you knew as “normality”. The new generation, already in their early twenties, simply don't have any other way of life to compare with. This is their reality. So, it will take time for them to realize that this is not normal, that this s not good, that there is something else, better, and they can fight for it. They probably don't realize we are in crisis, until the next one. But this crisis, which is not a natural phenomenon, but a man made one, exists for a reason. And if the reason for existing brings profits to the instigators, it is only a matter of time for a crisis to happen again and again, every time in a slightly different manner, until... Until there is no more gain for the instigators. So, globally the ecological crisis, is so huge and devastating that an economical crisis at a small place on earth that has been going on for 10 years already, can't be news, any longer. Yet, even if it is no news that 10 million people in Greece are slipping into darkness, also it is no news that Portugal, Italy and many other countries are experiencing similar realities. And they don't make headlines, because the crime is a continuous one, so if there is no change in the falling, well, it is no news. There is no change in the horizon, until we hit rock bottom. Or maybe there is. Of course not a solution that will help the people and indeed the country out of the crisis, but the final take over of any public asset, of any private wealth, of the history of Greece, of the will power of people to stay and fight for their country, for the country itself. And this change, is going to be global, but will affect mostly the countries that are already in crisis. Money have been accumulated by financial institutions and the new global crisis will create such shortage to basic goods, jobs and money, that people will be forced to sell their remaining assets for peanuts to the final institutions. Until then money will be spread around so people can buy useless things, or tick their stupid bucket-lists, so they will be hooked on their frivolous desires and the tool that makes them possible: money. It is a drug like addiction, that eliminates every other way of doing things, in the process. So everything becomes money, from buying a loaf of bread, paying your water and electricity bills, delivering a child to the world, connecting to the internet, enrolling to a university, to taking a trip or even caring for an ill person or burying your dead. Every little or big thing that until 60 years ago, communities were helping each other within their folds, without money exchanging hands, are now all translated into money and paid for dearly. And the cost of money is controlled by the financial institutions. On the other hand, all the spare time people were supposed to be able to free from this trade, is being lost in front of a TV , a computer and mobile phone screen. And the animal, people had dormant in them, will wake up and demand its share. It sounds bleak, but thousands of years of human history, go to prove that there has not been an evolution on this part of the human behavior. Only ways to cover up.

From the book “Parafrosini” (In progress)