O Βασίλης Καραμπούλας σκέφτεται στα αγγλικά, σε μια πρόζα μεταξύ πεζού λόγου και ποίησης.
24/06/2016
Vasileios Karampoulas
BA (Hns) Political Science, The University of Birmingham
Α wise and prudent governor (or an organisation of governors, a government, that is) knows when and how to press people or social clusters, and when and how to relieve them from that pressure.
Otherwise governance will snap.
Can we blame the British for choosing 'out', or 'Germanic states' for being, single-mindedly, to harsh on British (and the rest EU citizens)? Austerity, sovereignty, migration.
E.U. was formed mainly to ensure that Europe will not face another devasting war. Yet again, things became clearer at Maastricht Treaty (1992) where considerable authorities were bestowed upon Brussels ...
Brussels... capital of Belgium ... same flag with Germany, merely vertically placed ...
Since 1999, with the adoption of euro currency, Europeans saw in their palms, a clear backside of the coin: the german eagle! Not the same logo exactly, but undeniably the same emblem, more or less, graphically speaking , that was imprinted on our collective european consciousness, throughout the two world wars ...
Germany and para-Germany (Belgium) let the 'european' veil down with the paradigms of Portugal and ... Greece ... Infliction of social pain and usage of misanthropic austerities …
Unable to learn not only from basic common sense of what brings sympathy and popularity and what is not (i.e. antipathy and disgust), but also from the bitter lessons of their own history.
Today is a day of a big slap towards Germanic authoritarianism.
A sane and reasonable party would take a notice from this ugly message and ameliorate relations and stances at once.
But … “the wise person accepts, the canny excuses, and the fool insists."
The first reactions of GermanoBelgium were still harsh, rapid and vindictive. As if they are omnipotent, like they were yesterday; but it is not yesterday, it is today!
And foolish as they are, they will keep insisting, and press and bully and demand, and antagonise, and harass, only to see their beloved and praised european construction, the paradise of their economical ‘Fourth Reich’, fall and dismantle and collapse.
“Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war” said Mark Antony in William Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar”.
In this case, on 24/06/2016, correspondingly with the British referendum outcome, Shakespeare goes timeless than ever:
Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war…
Apparently Britain was not solely an ‘awkward partner’ after all.
It was not a partner at all.
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