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,I absolutely was kidding regarding the Irish and the USA re genes, but not about the West's obsession in exalting all things Greek. This is obviously due to a political agenda and not because Stavros has the cutest moustache. I think it is wrong, but that's politics. But it is also part of Greece's problems today.
The first wrong attitude - 'living' off past glory.
The point the article was making was that a huge attitude change is needed in Greece to overcome her problems and move forward. Whether Greeks are directly related to the ancient Greeks is a whole other debate, and largely irrelevant. The only relevance (I think) the writer was trying to make is the idiotic exaltation of today's Greeks based on past glory - the idiocy is like an older man constantly trying to make everyone think he is good by bragging about how great he was in his 20's while today he is in a dead-end job with no prospects, driving a beat-up 20 year old car, living single, near broke, in a 1 bedroom apartment for the last 15 years after his divorce. But damn it, he was great in his 20's! so he still must be a good person, right? I think you get the idea, except in Greece's case it's not just trying to live off a past glory, but an over 2 and a half thousand year old past glory. The writer is trying to say regardless of how true or untrue this ancient glory was, get over it, look at today, change your attitude, pull your finger out, and get on with building a life. The problem with the West constantly exalting the Greeks is that this constant flattery has gone to their heads where they actually belive in their greatness so much so to their detriment - you don't strive for better if you are always told you already are fantastic. What 'first' has Greece done in the last 200 years? They couldn't even build the 2004 Olympics on time without urgent help from the West.
The second wrong attitude - stealing is easier than working, so why strive to better you working capability.
The truth is that Greece has absolutely no means of sustaining her pre 2008 lifestyle without the constant flow of stolen money from the West each year to prop-up their budget. This stealing huge amounts each year causes an attitude problem. Firstly, if you can get something for nothing, why work? If this 'something' is so huge, all the more reason to concentrate on finding new creative ways to steal more. By having huge unearned excess funds (ie free money), it becomes easy for a person to justify to themselves why they 'deserve' a lavish lifestyle and not invest in improving themselves and the business environment. This sounds fine until they caught stealing.
The third wrong attitude - it's better to be a rich thief, at least you can always buy friends.
In politics it's all phony friends so why bother earning your bona fides, right? This is true in a lot of cases, but not always. In some cases, being a stand-up guy, earns you stand-up friends. When Macedonia broke off from Yugoslavia there were rumours about could this lead to a wider Balkan conflict. To quash anybodies possible stupid ideas Turkey declared her jets will be in the air if anybody's foot crosses a Macedonian boarder. Later, in 2001, Macedonia was ill prepared for the conflict. Firstly the Serbs took any hardware that wasn't nailed down or hidden. Starting 'life' as a relatively poor country they couldn't afford to buy new army toys too quickly. As if this wasn't bad enough, the usually thieving by politicians left the 'war' cupboard bare, yet the Ukraine jumped in to help.
In most cases the above is true, but Greece always was, still is, and always will be? a fakelaki (English translation F'n' Lucky). To counter Ottoman aggression the West built Greece and kept on pumping money in there. To counter Communism, the USA built bases there and kept pumping the flow of money. To fulfil the EU's wet dream and keep the bases there, Greece was fast-tracked into the EU. To keep their (the EU) social agenda going all EU farmers, and others, got all sorts of 'subsidies' and the welfare fraud was full on. Now that they are caught red-handed, the West's banks are going to be crippled unless the West's taxpayers cough-up the money. Oh no! the problem is worse than they thought, and to fend off the collapse of the Euro lets bailout the Greeks even more. Fakelaki.
Greek version of events.
We Greeks are the smartest people on earth! After all, the smartest brains in antiquity all came from Greece.
Western Taxpayer's version of event.
Fakelaki Greeks. How the hell did nobody audit this place ever!?
Conspirators' version of events.
Greece's wows are nothing less thank cocking the trigger to create a collaps and bring in the NWO.
The first wrong attitude - 'living' off past glory.
The point the article was making was that a huge attitude change is needed in Greece to overcome her problems and move forward. Whether Greeks are directly related to the ancient Greeks is a whole other debate, and largely irrelevant. The only relevance (I think) the writer was trying to make is the idiotic exaltation of today's Greeks based on past glory - the idiocy is like an older man constantly trying to make everyone think he is good by bragging about how great he was in his 20's while today he is in a dead-end job with no prospects, driving a beat-up 20 year old car, living single, near broke, in a 1 bedroom apartment for the last 15 years after his divorce. But damn it, he was great in his 20's! so he still must be a good person, right? I think you get the idea, except in Greece's case it's not just trying to live off a past glory, but an over 2 and a half thousand year old past glory. The writer is trying to say regardless of how true or untrue this ancient glory was, get over it, look at today, change your attitude, pull your finger out, and get on with building a life. The problem with the West constantly exalting the Greeks is that this constant flattery has gone to their heads where they actually belive in their greatness so much so to their detriment - you don't strive for better if you are always told you already are fantastic. What 'first' has Greece done in the last 200 years? They couldn't even build the 2004 Olympics on time without urgent help from the West.
The second wrong attitude - stealing is easier than working, so why strive to better you working capability.
The truth is that Greece has absolutely no means of sustaining her pre 2008 lifestyle without the constant flow of stolen money from the West each year to prop-up their budget. This stealing huge amounts each year causes an attitude problem. Firstly, if you can get something for nothing, why work? If this 'something' is so huge, all the more reason to concentrate on finding new creative ways to steal more. By having huge unearned excess funds (ie free money), it becomes easy for a person to justify to themselves why they 'deserve' a lavish lifestyle and not invest in improving themselves and the business environment. This sounds fine until they caught stealing.
The third wrong attitude - it's better to be a rich thief, at least you can always buy friends.
In politics it's all phony friends so why bother earning your bona fides, right? This is true in a lot of cases, but not always. In some cases, being a stand-up guy, earns you stand-up friends. When Macedonia broke off from Yugoslavia there were rumours about could this lead to a wider Balkan conflict. To quash anybodies possible stupid ideas Turkey declared her jets will be in the air if anybody's foot crosses a Macedonian boarder. Later, in 2001, Macedonia was ill prepared for the conflict. Firstly the Serbs took any hardware that wasn't nailed down or hidden. Starting 'life' as a relatively poor country they couldn't afford to buy new army toys too quickly. As if this wasn't bad enough, the usually thieving by politicians left the 'war' cupboard bare, yet the Ukraine jumped in to help.
In most cases the above is true, but Greece always was, still is, and always will be? a fakelaki (English translation F'n' Lucky). To counter Ottoman aggression the West built Greece and kept on pumping money in there. To counter Communism, the USA built bases there and kept pumping the flow of money. To fulfil the EU's wet dream and keep the bases there, Greece was fast-tracked into the EU. To keep their (the EU) social agenda going all EU farmers, and others, got all sorts of 'subsidies' and the welfare fraud was full on. Now that they are caught red-handed, the West's banks are going to be crippled unless the West's taxpayers cough-up the money. Oh no! the problem is worse than they thought, and to fend off the collapse of the Euro lets bailout the Greeks even more. Fakelaki.
Greek version of events.
We Greeks are the smartest people on earth! After all, the smartest brains in antiquity all came from Greece.
Western Taxpayer's version of event.
Fakelaki Greeks. How the hell did nobody audit this place ever!?
Conspirators' version of events.
Greece's wows are nothing less thank cocking the trigger to create a collaps and bring in the NWO.
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