Ordinary vs. Dark Politics

In physical cosmology and astronomy, dark energy is an unknown form of energy which is hypothesized to permeate all of space, tending to accelerate the expansion of the Universe. By analogy in politics, dark energy would then be a very known form of benefit that allures individuals in power to govern against the best interest of the State and its citizens, in favor of extra-institutional players, such as business associations and foreign States. Unlike the Universe, which forms one single space without borders, States are defined areas, specific in size and ethnicity. Yet this dark political energy seems to have the same properties as dark energy in astronomy, in terms of its unique ability to expand and have this corrosive effect on ethics and one's conscience.

Best example, our own PM who has recently celebrated in the most communist fashion one year in office holding yet another speech about the glorious campaign his government is running against the global forces of evil who want to destroy our wonderful country and its brilliant people. Leaving aside the fact that, should he ever find his place in history, he will probably do so not being remembered for his political magnitude, prudence and wit or for his wise administration but rather for the light-speed with which he turned around his contra-austerity and contra-memorandum election speech into a pro-austerity and pro-lender speech. In an almost paranoid style of government his closest ministers and co-workers have seized every opportunity to revive political nepotism by appointing family members in high government positions at light-speed, as well, while deducting any sensible argument from the public dialogue that this Government is the one that will take this country into a better, more transparent and merit-based future.

Hope has left this country more than six years ago and from what it seems never to return. What has taken its place and what remains are the shatters of despair and widespread fatigue and dissolution of the people. Resigned faces and demotivated spirits form the routine environment of this country until such time as the hordes of refugees will have also altered the physical appearance of this once proud nation. On every international political front the beating that this country is taking is enormous, almost as enormous as the image loss that we suffer on all levels. While the talent-pool of this country has fled the scene, the massive shift in population from the Middle East combined with the high levels of domestic unemployment has caused the shift of Greeks into Western Europe in an almost refugee identical agenda of finding a better life there. One may find it a bit odd that the timing of this shift is coinciding with the timing of the refugee crisis but also with the timing of the re-definition of the European Union's agenda for the future. Not too long ago voices all across Europe have become very vocal against the Morphoma of the European Union, as individual nations could no longer see the benefits of this State Union. The prosperity advertised at the outset has nowadays been replaced by the Maastricht criteria and its real effects on the lives of the average European.

The value of holding a Greek passport these days almost resembles the stain of the yellow star during Nazi times. Not worth the paper it is printed on. The Danish today went even further requiring refugees to wear red wrist-bands, if they are still interested to a free meal. Nazi time all over, if you ask me. The branding of people, the installation of fear and the strong underlying tone of religion has spread the virus of hatred and racism despite the fact that these "hip" words are the forbidden fruit in terms of political correctness in one's emotional word management. The unease which is omnipresent and which makes you think twice before wanting to get on that plane to go visit a city, a friend or to simply attend a business meeting, because no one wants to take his chances of ending up in a plane sitting next to a person whose skin color causes stress or his beard generates doomsday thoughts.

Maybe I am getting too old, I admit, and with age I get heavier and more difficult to move around. This loss of mobility, which comes at a stage of my life where I can afford it the least -as the message on the board is loud and clear and points only to one direction -the direction of total economic control by a system that is designed to procure modern slavery in all possible forms may also be the final universal sign that commands me to just sit back and enjoy the New World Order.