Shall we give up
all hope?
― If
it is so, and our enemies are so powerful,
let us give up all hope
now of ever realising
our dream of direct
democracy, and let us
cease occupying
ourselves with something
unattainable.
This
view sounds logical,
but
I don't like it.
I do not like
it,
because
I
would call it the "chicken’s view".
When the
entrepreneur
decides that the
population of the poultry farm
has matured enough, then
the chickens sit quietly
and let themselves be
stuck in large containers
and taken to the
slaughterhouse.
I do not like
it,
because whatever
progress
we have achieved so
far,
was
made against the
"views
of reasonable people"
who said:
"Things
are very good as they are,
why you do want to
change it?
You will not
succeed anyway,
because it is too
difficult".
I do not like
it,
because it blocks us
precisely from what
distinguishes us from
the chickens.
It
blocks our thinking.
If we think
correctly,
we can find
solutions.
It is difficult.
But
for the difficult situations that’s what
our
best people, our experts, are for.
And one more
thing.
For now
it looks like the
existing system and the forces
that support it and
share its power are so strong,
that any thought of
overthrowing it
seems impossible.
However,
•
the
system is approaching its end.
•
It
is staggering.
•
Its
equilibrium is gone.
•
The
cards will be redistributed.
There is
a brief moment
when the forces are
undecided and need to
be rearranged
in a new stable equilibrium.
At that moment,
a large force isn't
necessary
to control everything.
A small force
applied at the right
moment in the right
place, is sufficient.
We do not need
a great
revolution, which in any
case the system has
taken care
to make impossible.
A small group of
capable people at appropriate
key positions is
sufficient to lead the
course of history in
the desired direction.
With brotherly
love
and many thanks to
Mrs Mary Ktenides
for assisting with the
English translation.