Greek fires and the Greek reality

For years we hear: Greece the cradle of civilization, the birthplace of democracy and so many other nice big words.

Yes, Greece was all of the above sometime in the past.

Today, there is a new reality here.

A huge number of Greeks never read anything about the people who lived in this land (ancient Greeks, renaissance Greeks , etc.).

Very few Greeks know about the history of the land that they live on now.

Today, Greece is a huge garbage dumpster. When you visit, look around you, inside Delphi, ancient Olympia, etc. you see garbage everywhere.

A society of mindless wanderers who have no connection to what was there before.

A society that imprisoned her bravest fighter (Kolokotronis) against the Ottoman Empire.
The same minds govern the country today.

Land developers who burn the forest because they know that people have very short memory and in a few years they will develop the burned forest with the blessings of the politicians.
The politicians who today scream that the forests will be protected, as they did in the past.
But, they always say : the forest will be protected, they never said , the forest is protected.

We ask the simple question:
Why the land developers are not arrested as arsonists when they build in the burned forest?

The biggest land developers are the politicians that run this place.

The biggest land owner is the Greek Orthodox Church with titles from the Ottoman Sultan (How can, the so claimed fighters against the Ottoman Empire, ended up with so much land and titles from their so called enemy is another story).

Let's all work for a new reality, away from political parties.

Let's all work for a new consciousness, one that respects and loves the land and its all inhabitants (plants, animals, humans, microorganisms, etc.).

We may someday look back and realize the nightmare that we have lived in.

Let's hope it is only a nightmare.

The disappearance of a beautiful, sweet and noisy little creature

I took the initiative to write this message because of an event that happened this winter. It is an event of tremendous importance.

An event of cataclysmic consequences. It is an event of cosmogonic importance. A catastrophic event.

No, it has nothing to do with a war, or nuclear explosions, or volcanoes, or earthquakes, or tsunamis.

You may wonder that I have lost my mind, I say not yet. But, if that event has a follow up, I want to assure you that all of us, humans, we will loose our minds and consequently the way of life that we live.

So, what is that so important event?

The event is the disappearance of a beautiful, sweet and noisy little creature that many urban and neo-rural dwellers for years find annoying and have come up with hundreds of ways to exterminate.

This little creature is an insect that goes by the name of Apis mellifera otherwise called the domesticated Honey Bee.

By now you are sure that I have lost my mind completely.

Well, this winter beekeepers in the USA have lost close to 80% of their bees. You will say, so what, we have seen this before.

Well, no, we have not seen this before and the reason is very simple.

In the past, we have lost honey bees from many different causes, but every time we were able to find the dead bees and find out the virus or the mite or any other disease that killed them.

This time, nobody has found any dead bee. Nobody knows where the bees are and what happened to them. We are talking about millions of bees.
Every beehive has between 20,000 to 30,000 bees and the loss is between 70% to 80%. Industrial beekeepers have thousands of beehives.

It may be billions of bees.

The bee is responsible for the pollination of about 30% of agriculture crops. We have no idea what is the percent pollination for the wild.

If pollination stops, nature will stop, trees, wild flowers, vegetables and so many other flora species will seize to exist.

And what is next? Who knows.

We may ask, what can we do.

I say, let's begin by boycotting any industrial processed food.

Let's try to buy local and organic.

If we know any biodynamic food coop, let's go and buy from them.

Let's boycott super markets and the garbage that they sell to us.

Let's eat less.

Let's consume less.

Let's drive less.

Let's have reverence for the food we eat.

Let's thank and think about the farmer, the baker, the agriculture worker before we put another piece of food in our mouth.

Let's stop the madness of processed and commercial garbage that they feed us through the media.

For the sake of the little kids of the world.

Let's be humans again.