Galery

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The fact that a Holy Inquisition type of trial is going on at the moment, enabled by the shortcomings of a hypocritical anti-racism law, is so tragicomic. And all this because a military father-of-the-people officer and a "real Cretan" prosecutor have hopped on the stage to judge history. And behind them come hordes of citizens and politicians who are willing to earn national kudos for the lynching of a scientist. What an amount of lowlife instincts the net of fantasies and chauvinist hysteria can hold!

This polarized world, which created our "national" schooling and was endorsed by either the "patriotic" or the "progressive" media, can comfortably fit in Georgios Repousis, Anthimos, Phyllis, Parayudakis and a bunch of other completely uninvited, unambiguous "interpreters" of history. But it has no place for rationality, pure thought, evidence, research and tolerance towards the intellectual work of independent and free people.

The best I've heard on the history subject for the time being was written by Chronis Misios: "The whore-history is being written the same way by both the bourgeois and the communists: in a horizontal and uniform manner. They keep talking about nations, about masses, yet none of them was able to feel the tension. The passion, the climax and the fall of entire worlds within just one day in the life of a single revolutionary. They are literate, they can read and write, but no less they fail to understand that each person is a whole world, a history. I do not know, but I think that once a person get his/her humanity back, once he/she starts creating human culture, and writing history in a vertical way: not about nations and masses, but about Pavlos, Rinyo, Eleni, master Stefanos, only then will people know what the price of history is, what the cost of participation is, and the meaning of phrases like "one hundred thousand dead" or "someone was tortured by a security service." Then people will know the importance of prison, the importance of political errors."