Blog

"Whoever is absent, his fate is absent," says a Cypriot proverb. That is, whoever is absent during the distribution of all kinds of income or during the making of decisions, loses the right to claim a part of them. Fate here has a double meaning. On the one hand, it is fate as a piece (see division) and on the other, it is fate as a prescribed course in time, related to the joys and sorrows that this course will hold.

The issue of presence or absence in political life is of great importance. For example, in the years after the dictatorship, almost all politicians wanted to associate their existence with the events of the Polytechnic. They were all there! They all fought against the Junta! They all contributed to its persecution! They therefore also had a share (the fate we spoke of before) in the "revolution". Therefore, they are entitled to have as their destiny (=the outcome of fate in its second sense) their eternal presence in the political life of the country. Of course, it is worth noting for the sake of historical truth that the Polytechnic was established in November 1973 while the Junta fell (essentially on its own) in July 1974 as a result of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus.

Every revolution, however, requires many sacrifices in order to be effective. And in these sacrifices, the blood of the dead holds a greater specific weight in the scale of history. Our era is the era of paranoia and the reversal of terms. The depravity of idols dominates everywhere. Almost everything is virtual, non-existent, false. We live lives through computer screens, through mobile phones, through a nirvana of hetero-identification of gluttony and apparent luxury. Deceptive idols on the altar of sloth and intellectual castration. However, our era also has its dead. And they are innumerable. And they are without graves with carved crosses. They are the dead who were never born. They are those who did not even have time to become a name in the records of some registry office. They are the children who never came into the world. Those who, thanks to the deceit of idols, missed their destiny without even being given the opportunity to claim it. But somehow, the tombstone of the peoples enters...

Today, several thousand Greek children, despite being in times infinitely more favorable than in other times, lose their lives before they are even born. Their executioner, however, is certainly not hunger, nor is it lack of money or the hardships of the day. Their executioner is the pushy grandparents, the one-night-stand fathers, but also, unfortunately, their own mothers. The sanctified female body that bears the breasts of nourishment, succumbs to personal weaknesses, to the lightness of ephemeral pleasures, to the pressures of third parties, but also to the dictates of a dirty society. It succumbs and decides to terminate the pregnancy…

Beyond the personal parameters, beyond moral barriers or beliefs, there is also the raw geopolitical parameter that encompasses everything. It is obvious that in order to be present in geopolitical developments, you must first exist! Living is infinitely more important than having money, oil, cannons or airplanes. Without people, there is absolutely nothing. It is clear, however, that we Greeks, in the near future, are at risk of suffering a painful shrinkage of our population. If we lived in a place without any geopolitical value, perhaps this would not be a problem. However, we are not alone. We live in a neighborhood that happens to be an extremely important terrestrial and marine regional edge between the warring powerful poles of the planet. Already, in recent years, we have been experiencing many peculiar conflicts (economic, territorial, migration) that have as their ultimate goal the redistribution of power among the powerful masters of our region.

A country with an underpopulation, lacking in hardworking and fighting hands, not fully exploiting its wealth and risking being hit by a massive influx of immigrants or its subjugation to a stronger opponent. We urgently need Greek hands, feet and heads so that we can fight for our survival tomorrow. Without them, the economy (since it is what monopolizes our interest) will not recover even in a million years.

From the above, we can understand that it is of the highest national interest to immediately implement a serious population policy, which will certainly include an inspired effort to prevent abortions. Perhaps, if measurable incentives for childbearing are given and if the state becomes a practical helper to single-parent families or to minor mothers, then, possibly, many of these unborn dead will be born and contribute later in a productive way to our well-being.

It is a fact that as a state and as citizens, we have failed miserably at almost all levels. We are in a complete storm. The encouraging thing is that many times during our long history, we have found ourselves in these, but also in worse messes and in the end, we once recovered. The ominous thing is that only today are we at risk of oligarchy and population aging. Perhaps, if this situation continues for a few more years, and with the pace of the migratory waves observed in our country in combination with the obvious inability of the implemented national strategies to solve the problems that arise, the ethnological composition of our state will be completely altered. Under these circumstances, however, it is almost certain that the days of our nation's life will be numbered. And as we pointed out at the beginning: "whoever is absent, is absent in his fate."