tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5882645467378797266.post2004703688839203607..comments2023-07-17T11:55:51.363+02:00Comments on ObservingGreece: Niki Kitsantonis' tweets on the PM's speechkleinguthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12491174042954678023noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5882645467378797266.post-61412344478001866372012-10-17T11:47:53.690+02:002012-10-17T11:47:53.690+02:00As far as I know the Greek spirit is not different...As far as I know the Greek spirit is not different from the spirit of any other human being. The Greek personality though is something what has grown into a phenomenon what has nothing to do with the right "spirit". I agree that this spirit needs to come back. Has to be reactivated.<br /><br />I would like to change the 3rd challenge mentioned here: "Our 3rd challenge is to set free our dynamism and competitiveness. Competitiveness is the marriage of liberation and freedom!" into:<br />"Our 3rd challenge is to set free trust, what creates dynamism and strength. Trust is the marriage of a deep intelligence/knowledge with inner power. It awakens resistance against all what kills dynamism and strength."<br /><br />The expression "competitiveness" belongs to the phylosophy of capitalism/greed. Capitalism/Greed is a monster what has created multinationals, ecological pollution, spiritual poverty, burglary of all the richness of Mother Earth, armies, wars, suffering. <br /><br />What I miss here as a challenge is Education!<br />The old Greeks were Teachers. But even healthcare does not follow up what Hypocrates teached, not only in Greece. He would throw out a lot of doctors and scientists working in healthcare.<br /><br />The entire Greek society is so proud of their ancestors and history that they assume that Greeks are infallible. That creates a lack of self criticism. Blindness. Irrisponsible behaviour, acts. <br /><br />They talk about their ancestors as if they are their beloved ones. So proud of them. Well, if all would reincarnate, including Alexander, without informing the Greeks about their former incarnation, so with another face, another name, the Greeks would NOT recognize them, and reject their thoughts. I am sure they would offer the cup with poison again. To all. <br /><br />So: to stop unawareness, to open eyes, intelligence and common sense has to be reactivated. On schools. With teachers who look deeper than the surface of knowledge. Who stimulate their students to think instead of copying ideas. With professors who have been "scanned" on ethics, ethos, on true intelligence, that what makes them more than walking brainwork. Scanned also on their Emotional Intelligence. Checked on their wisdom. Insight. Higher Intelligence. Awareness. Worth it to be on the Aristotle university, or any other university with the name of one of the Big Greeks, as a student, as a professor. To create a new society. To empty all the Greek minds of today, to clean all imprinted doctrines there, to open the own thinking, deep thinking, to create a new generation, new parents, new children, new teachers. <br />All starts with teaching. <br />Education.<br /> <br /><br /><br /><br />Antoinette Janssenhttp://www.linkedin.com/in/antoinettejanssennoreply@blogger.com