As stated in my first post here, I live in Greece so I have a unique perspective on, well, Greece. I am sure - if someone thought about it - that someone not living in Greece cannot, in good conscience, have a valid opinion of the inner workings of ...
As stated in my first post here, I live in Greece so I have a unique perspective on, well, Greece. I am sure - if someone thought about it - that someone not living in Greece cannot, in good conscience, have a valid opinion of the inner workings of the country. Even someone who visited once. It is as if when I visit the zoo, for instance, the tiger cage, I can immediately judge the prowess of the tigers, the inner working of their mind, their feelings, their pain, how their loss of freedom affected and affects them. How their grooming habit could be better, in what way eating in a different way and a different food could provide fewer expenses to the zoo. Or even have the hubris of calling them lazy, because in that cage all they do is... sit.
The truth is malleable. The truth is primarily about trust and less so about facts. We trust someone, we believe them. We don't ask our father when he says something favorable about a politician for example, "Why do you like him? Why do you believe him? Are you capable of infiltrating the mind and the soul of that person and judge him honest and righteous? Are you a psychologist? a behavior analyst? Are you God?" Of course not. Because it's not about facts. We "feel" the truth, and "believe" in trust rather than wondering, questioning, thinking!
The same mechanism which served us well in passing down generation to generation verbal traditions, myths, legends and stories designed to protect us and to guide us, is now our downfall. There was no need for critical thinking at that point. You only had to remember and repeat the absolute truths passed down to you so you could pass them on to your children. Now we pass on loyalty to religious ideals and political parties, to our children as absolute truths and we think ourselves superior to jungle-dwelling savages.
Read the news and watch television but not to learn or educate yourselves. Do it so as to know what our political "masters" want to impress on us. What they want to make us believe, what they want to make us feel. All the mass media globally are there to serve yes, but not us. The persons that pay them to think. At least they get paid -we, the viewers- are made to think what they want for free.
Be critical, be kind and always follow the chain of information.
