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By George E. Dimitrakis

The life of every person is based on the balance of two related concepts, the relationship and meaning of which has undergone an unjustified distortion. It is selfishness and its twin sister selflessness, as oxymoronic as this may sound. The inability of man to understand the importance of the balance of these concepts has as a consequence the creation of social problems and conflicts between people.

Selfishness is the power of each person's activity for his advancement in his personal environment, that is, his individual life, his career, commonly called his career. However, in all his action and advancement, the consciousness of each person, without any external imposition, pressure and rules, sets a limit, a red line. This red line is the one that opens the wings of man to the door of selflessness, to offer uninvited and voluntarily a part of the goods of his activity to the social whole, which is intertwined with the concepts of the Fatherland, its Bodies and the Laws of a coordinated functioning social unity, cohesion and harmony. The strengthening of these concepts through the selflessness of each of us results in the strengthening of National Sovereignty, which, however, cannot exist if it is not based on Economic Independence.

We Greeks have shown the greatest civilization through our creation, but many times also through division, this unique and inexplicable phenomenon in world history. There are countless examples of the unique in world history conflict between strife and creation of the Greeks. The spiritual development of our ancestors and its culmination, and all their works, emerged, as is well known, in the midst of civil conflicts such as, for example, the thirty-year period of conflict between Athens and Sparta at the end of the 5th century BC.^th BC century, which divided Greece into 2 camps, as is known, in the midst of war and the blockade of Athens, the continuation of the works on the Acropolis with the Parthenon, the Erechtheion, the Temple of Victory, the Propylaea, etc. monuments of the eternity of the Greek spirit and creation, the contribution of the Greeks to humanity and now world-wide admiration.

The personality of Alexander the Great and his father Philip II is a synthesis of their strategic genius, but also of the expression of the power and superiority of the Greek spirit. For this reason, the 46 tribes of Asia, the world of that time, were not able to resist the superiority of the Greeks. Today, the picture of humanity would be very different if Alexander the Great had not succumbed so young, at only 33 years old, to his inexplicable and enigmatic fatal death, which also put an end to the great vision of the Greeks for a universal governance of humanity. 

The dream of our ancient ancestors, who remained eternal dreamy teenagers, was the exploration of the vast universe, a universe which for them was the world, that is, the jewel of their lives. A life with constant questions and an inexhaustible will to create. However, the contribution of our ancestors, their creation and work, their superiority, never exuded arrogance, envy, fear, terror, authoritarianism, aggression and threats towards other peoples, but only admiration, respect, appreciation and timeless recognition. The Greek spirit has long lived until today in the consciousness of all the peoples of humanity. This is the unique great miracle of the Greeks in World History. A miracle of a down-to-earth, sober, thoughtful, open-minded, visionary, creative people. that humanity will never experience again. 

The current situation that our Homeland is experiencing, and the exit from the crisis framework, can only be addressed when we rediscover our creative selves, we cast off the tendency towards absolute silence and silent descent, the lethargy of the last decades of indifference, inertia, inaction, aphasia, irresponsibility, audacity and hypocrisy, we tame the passions, we unite once again our moral and spiritual powers, and we reflect with national conscience and faith on the great responsibilities towards our History, towards the national ideals of this Nation of ours. We owe it to our wonderful and great ancestors, to ourselves, to our children, to our wonderful and unique Homeland which we must love, respect, protect, serve, defend with faith, self-denial and selflessness. However, we owe it, as genuine descendants of our great ancestors, to other Peoples as well.

Let us therefore prove ourselves worthy descendants of those who, in all the struggles of the Nation, sacrificed everything in the furnace of national necessity and provided generations of generations with the most beautiful example of love for the Homeland, Religion, Freedom, History, Traditions, the Family and classical values ​​of our race. And from this immortal example, let us all draw the strength of moral endurance against the new great test. This adorable Homeland with so many invaluable legacies of all of us, is the Soul of our Nation and we must protect it with faith, love, self-sacrifice and self-denial.

Believe me, no one, no one can bend our Homeland, because for millennia it has been at the top of World History and Culture. Greece is the Light-Giver of Humanity, that pioneering creative Force, which thought, created, analyzed and promoted all aspects of Knowledge, Thought and Culture. It is the Mother of everything!

I quote a characteristic article from March 1975 in the world's largest newspaper, the New York Times, about the invaluable and unique contribution of the Greeks to humanity with the extremely shocking title: 

The Greeks set man on his feet

"……For thousands of years, earlier civilizations, such as those of the Persians, the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Egyptians, saw man as a detestable being who crawled before deities and tyrants. But the Greeks took man and set him at his feet. They taught him to be proud.

The world is full of wonders, said Sophocles, but nothing is more wonderful than man. The Greeks convinced man, as Pericles put it, that he was rightfully the possessor and master of himself and created laws to safeguard his personal freedoms.

The ancient Greeks encouraged man's curiosity about himself and the world around him, proclaiming with Socrates that a life without inquiry is not worth living.

The Greeks believed in perfection in all things, which is why they bequeathed to us beauty, which reaches from the Parthenon and Greek statues, the tragedies of Aeschylus, Euripides, and Sophocles, the poetry of Hesiod and Homer, to the painted vases of a simple household.

Without the Greeks we might never have understood what self-government is. But, even more than our language, our laws, our logic, our standards of truth and beauty, we owe to them our deep sense of human dignity. 

From the Greeks we learned to aspire without limitations, to be, as Aristotle said, immortal to the extent possible..."

George Em. Dimitrakis

Footnote: The Author of Cretan (Marian Prefecture of Rethymno) and Thracian origin was born and resides in Xanthi/Thrace, the rampart of Greece. He studied Political-Economic Sciences and Sociology at the University of Bonn and History and Cultural Heritage in Athens. He served as a Diplomate Tour Guide for the entire Greek Territory for 30 years.

SAYS – HEROISM AND FATHERLAND

George Em. Dimitrakis (G.E.D.): "Constantinos Katsifas, the great Greek, who on the 28th Anniversary of^th  October 1940, assassinated on the 28th^η Oct. 2018 in the unfree and oppressed Northern Epirus, for the ideas of Freedom, for Greece and Democracy, even holding the Greek Flag in his hand."

Nikos Kazantzakis: "A man can do nothing brave in the world unless he submits his life to a Master superior to him."

(G.E.D.): This is what the hero Konstantinos Katsifas did, who, unfortunately, is not honored in the Motherland of the Greeks, not even with a Memorial! This is not how it is, when some, unfortunately, are timid, submitting even while alive to their "Masters", whom they fear!

Aristophanes: "Heroes are never found in the dark."

General Assembly: "Unfortunately, many prefer to live in the darkness of their "Masters"!"

Lord Byron: "Those who die for a great cause never fail."

General Assembly.: "Unfortunately, many fail even in life!"

(G.E.D.) "In life, he who sees and distinguishes others for the correctness of their thinking and their greatness excels."

(G.E.D.): "The correct judgment of a person by others depends on the extent of the subjectivity and empathy of others."

Plato: "Everyone can have an opinion. Do they have the knowledge to have an opinion?"

General Directorate: "What knowledge do some or many have of these? For knowledge is intertwined with consciousness."

Ion Dragoumis: "To those who accuse me or ridicule me because I appeal to their national sentiment and speak exclusively to them, I will say: So do you want your nation to die? If you want it, say it clearly, don't hide it!"

Dionysios Solomos: "The Nation must learn to consider as national what is true."

Ioannis Kapodistrias: "Victory will be ours, if the Greek feeling reigns in our hearts. The listener is a traitor."

(G.E.D.): "Take care to put money only in your pocket, but never in your soul."

Saying of the wise General Sun Tzu: "The first principle of war is deception, as well as the saying that "in war, the first thing to die is the truth."

VACCINE against it Covid-19: "A vaccine that is proven to be good for humans does not need fines, punishments, dismissals, intimidation, threats and bribes." And so Albert Einstein said: "If someone offers you something for free, know that the product is you. Remember, when they tell you 'Freedom', it means you've already lost it!"