PDE - Η κοινότητα των εκπαιδευτικών

Ποιός θα σας το εγγυηθεί? Κι αν πούν τώρα ναί κι αλλάξουν γνώμη?

σχόλιο απο την ιστοσελίδα του Economist.


Sadly enough, very few recognize the true causes of the decline in Greece (and in the world as a whole).
Behind all the rioting, the despaired and the furious youth of Greece lies a major social problem, which is the lack of respect, of (common) vision, of a common set of values, which are the backbone of every organized and civilized society. Moreover, the disintegration of every ethical value and self-awareness, in association with a new materialistic life stance (last 30 years) contribute to the rotting of every sacred and valued by the (social) individual.
Education, cultivation, social-awareness and social responsibility have all been extinct in the modern Greek society. They have all been replaced by the atom centric (individualistic) ideals of fast and easy riches.

The protests of the "young" people in Greece are not organized (as the government claims so, in order to hide its incompetence). They are the result of a long-term rotting of the social tissue that kept the Greek society together. The "youngsters" protest, without actually knowing why (except for the apparent murder of the 15-year old schoolboy), without really exercising pressure for a new set of values, of ethics or ideals that should be put forward by the "grown-ups". They protest, because that's what they really learn in school; how to claim their "democratic" rights: by blocking streets, by ruining public buildings, by making fires, by making hundreds of their fellow-civilians suffer in the chaotic traffic-jam they create. That's the set of values and way of living they learn in school or even in their homes.
They emptiness, the destructive and negative of their thinking is the result of a long-term process of "leftism" and "modernization" that the Greek society faced after the junta it suffered till 1974.

Having said all that, it is not difficult for one to understand that the governments or political parties of Greece are what suit the greek society.
The sad and pessimistic part of the situation is that, noone understands that the problem lies within each one's self, that the problem is social and ethical, and has nothing to do with the 'crisis' or economic abnormalities. In order for the governments , the politics, the environment, the social stability to change people must change first and acquire some self-awareness and at the same time respect for the other.

At the times we live, there hardly seems to be any illuminating and optimistic clues that could drive Greece out of the dead-end it is found.