Citizens are desperately looking for a way out of this deplorable situation. In this crisis that the country is experiencing, the causes are clearly not only economic but primarily moral and spiritual due to the lack of moral conscience where the society of material prosperity of modern bourgeois culture could not offer us.
It was December 10, 1893 when Charilaos Trikoupis, referring to Greece's inability to pay its public debt, formulated the famous "Unfortunately we went bankrupt". Trikoupis did not use populist and false expressions such as money exists but ascending the podium of parliament with absolute honesty he stated that there is no money. He also said that "Greece is destined to live and will live" and indeed it did so because Greece is not only the Greek economy.
After four years followed the unfortunate Greek-Turkish war of 1897 which, although we lost in the military field, in the diplomatic field we managed to make Crete a semi-autonomous state with High Commissioner George, second son of King George Poleos of 97 the Macedonian Games, the first and second Balkan Games, and then the World Championships where the small and indebted Helladitsa manages to double its size. In 1933 comes another bankruptcy, the fourth in total in the history of the modern Greek state. We were not intimidated and in 1940 under the leadership of the national governor I. Metaxas we managed to put up with the Italian empire and take back the Northern Epirus. On April 6, 1941 we were attacked by the greatest force of the time, the Third Reich, where, unable to burn the heroic resistance of the Greeks in the line of fortresses Metaxa, he managed to enter the country only after the collapse of the Yugoslav front. The then Prime Minister of the country, Alexandros Koryzis, refusing to compromise with this situation, pulls out his revolver and shoots himself (hence some should be exemplified). And finally in 1955, with the national liberation struggle of EOKA, the last golden pages in the rich history of Hellenism were added.
All these epics of Greek History were written in times of economic difficulty based not on economic interest but nationally. Today, the concerns of modern Greeks revolve around what clothes they will buy, which brand of mobile phone is the best or if it has a more expensive car than its neighbor. In the past, things were very different; when Kolokotronis took the chariots to make a revolution, he did not do it for livelihood or adventure. As he states in his speech in Pnyx to the youth, "when we caught the chariots we said first in favor of faith and then in favor of homeland" (this should be borne in mind by some "progressive" saprophytes who say that the revolution was supposedly class). When the teachers of the Macedonian struggle were sent from a young age to Macedonia to teach Christ and Greece, they were completely indifferent to their schedule and salary, and while they were in mortal danger from the Bulgarian komitatzides. When Harding offered Kyriakos Matsis the sum of five hundred thousand pounds, which was exorbitant for the time, he stunned him, telling him that "we are talking about the money of the match, but about virtue".
But then the two foreign materialist ideologies did not prevail, both that of Marxist internationalism and that of liberal globalization, which today have eroded everything in Greek society. At that time, the Greeks were fed by the Greek Orthodox ideals that kept us alive in the dark ages of slavery. Today, materialism and those who market it through various means (trade union, information, party, etc.) are the main causes of the debauchery in which today's young Greeks have fallen.
The modern materialist conception of culture has unfortunately spread its tentacles everywhere even in the field of education. In today's schools, education has become a mere form where teaching hours are wasted on subjects such as foreign languages, computers, economics, while ethnographic subjects such as Religion, History, and Language are increasingly marginalized. . This situation prevails in the universities where instead of promoting scientists, "robot" technocrats are produced with the aim of meeting the needs of production, completely ignoring the consequences of their actions since they have never been taught in Greek higher education institutions about the ethical use of science. as a result we reach this chaos of modern bourgeois "culture".
Our Greece is indeed going through difficult times, but this is not the first time. In order to get out of this storm we must first get rid of any consumer-materialist perceptions that occupy us and turn again to our Greek Orthodox tradition, the so-called Romiosyni, the one that kept us alive for so many years despite the hardships and sufferings which we suffered from time to time as Greeks. It is time for all of us to realize that society is not just the economy and that our lives do not only mean the satisfaction of livelihood needs but as the gospel teaches, “Man lives on bread alone, but on every verb I utter by word of mouth. Of God ".