25173 - The life insurance of the void
N. Lygeros
Translated from the Greek by Athena Kehagias
When you are not producing any work in politics, your problem is not to change the data, but to simply avoid everyone else seeing it for what it is.
That’s not regarding your enemies of course, because they can in actual fact see it, but those who believe in you and they elect you.
Of course if it’s regarding your henchman, then you aren’t in great danger, because they themselves don’t want to lose the power, and as a result would enhance your dogmatism.
Your real problem is the innocent who believed in you, because they didn’t know you enough, and they were under the impression that you would satisfy them.
Τherefore, when they now see that you reject time and again all that you were saying you’ll do, as per your program, and that the only thing you change is your opinion about trying to adapt to the actual data of reality, which you were sure to overturn upon arrival.
So slowly they come to realize that it’s an unreliable authority which doesn’t know what else to do in order to remain in position and that alone.
Then it comes to relize that the life insurance of the void, is the populism which constitutes the central and dominant doctrine of your policy.
However, there is a structural problem.
Populism is able to offer the victory to a political party which has no function or action, because rationally, as an opposition, it functions in the field of potentiality, and not of reality, whereas on the other hand authority must face its problems.
The only way to escape from this problem is to avoid the issues of democracy, and then slowly after you’ve overpowered your opponents to then be transformed into a regime which is indeed of the Stalinist or Maoist type.
Because in this case, it’s everyone else that’s at fault for your problems, and never you with your doctrine.
Consequently, you convolve the voters in a common struggle without them becoming aware that in the end they would not even need to elect you, as you’ll be a dictator of a system which offers artificial prosperity to all, whether they want it or not.
But such function can not take place in Greece.