By George Kafkalias:
We start with the basics. For what we call communication there must always be someone who wants to communicate something and there must also be a receiver.
From there, things start to get complicated, with different methods, different ways and forms depending on the data that exists each time.
Sometimes and in some cases, however, things are or should be clear and without any complications. Cyprus and consequently the current Cypriot society is one of these cases.
Let's look at the data in front of us:
A) A Cyprus economically on the ventilator in almost all sectors,
B) Constantly rising unemployment
C) entire people and families below the poverty line
D) tragic mistakes and omissions by bankers, public officials, etc.
E) devaluation of political life and political men and women by citizens
F) corruption in all sectors of public and private life
G) the Cyprus problem for decades (I would put it first on the list if the Cypriots really considered it as such).
I could write more examples and data than the letters of the whole alphabet, but I think that they give the image that prevails in Cyprus today.
With these data accepted and accepted by all, a normal, simple, everyday citizen with pure intentions would expect that the communication that the politicians and technocrats of this country would try to have with the people would be based on the truth, the reality, honesty, equal treatment, restraint in attitudes, frugal narration of data, no divisive attitudes, no disorientation games, no empty content slogans just for impressions. Above all, however, taking all the political arenas (not all politicians as we all simply say), all the bankers and banking organizations, all the officials and technocrats of the public service, the responsibility for the position that Cyprus has reached today. Because all the above and the international treaties are responsible, as each of us is individually responsible.
Instead, we witness an unstoppable chatter here and there, a relentless effort to shift responsibility from side to side and vice versa, a targeting of persons and situations, an attempt to convince us that everyone possesses infallibility and the only truth. People watch these games, watch these developments on their televisions and get carried away by this logic of the seemingly meaningless controversy. Because if we carefully take ourselves out and look at the realities, we will see that communication and all the media that serve it are different and the essence of the policy that determines our lives is different. Because there is substance in the work of parties and politics. Discussions and fermentations take place daily. Decisions that affect us are made daily. But this substance is served to us as a parent tries to feed a baby who does not want to eat. Trying to trick him with various tricks and games. It is up to us to understand that we have grown up and are no longer children.
I have mentioned all the above for one and only reason. Because communication is good, it is useful, it is necessary. But it is not the essence. The point is for all of us to study, to read behind the words, to build arguments in our views, to challenge, to know what we are saying, to have demands that will stem from our active participation in the commons (to catch some , active participation does not necessarily presuppose partisanship, although this is not a bad thing, just equal). Do not be mere applause or nihilists. To be able to believe in the future and not in the past. To build mentalities and principles that are finally based on honesty and trust.
It is finally time to close our ears to what they want to throw ashes in our eyes and open our minds, to new ideas, to our fellow man, to the experts (not those who are appointed as such, but those who hold the supplies for to be such). Only then will we be able to take a step forward as a society. Only then will the new generation have hope for the future.