Alexander statue

[MARCvSVIBIvSMAvRINvS]

Fully agree with your last statement, any National feeling based on ancient history is in fact nonsense. To say you are Greek and be proud of your heritage is one thing, to denounce others for being non-Greek and demanding them not to use international world history to try and identify oneself with a more glorious regional or international past is moronic. When i say i feel Roman it means i appreciate all that Rome meant. When i say i am of Samurai mind, it means i try to adhere to Bushido and the Hagakure and other forms of Japanese martial philosophy of the period 1400-1868. It does not mean i am. Just like you cannot say you are Greek, German, Dutch, English American or whatever. That might be the political status quo of the nation you were born in, but any form of national proudness or nationalistic feelings in my eyes is utter nonsense since you are human first of all. We all have red blood, 10 fingers 10 toes, arms, legs etc. The only difference is skin tone and eye shape. For the rest we are all the same. Those who let themselves be guided and steered by national and nationalistic feelings in my eyes are blind. Blind and desperate for they believe the propaganda made by their own so called states and do not have their own unique identity. Their so called feeling of belonging is what disturbs and disgusts me the most in the present day world. Of course it has always been that way, it is part of the human condition, this disease which spread since the first apes stood up and humanity evolved into what it is today. A pest which destroys the earth.

Why do i not see those proud Greeks demonstrating all over athens wearing the panoplia ? That would make a statement. A line of riot police confronted by a Phalanx of well dressed Greek soldiers, of true Greeks in stead of anarcho syndicalists or whatever you like to call yourself or like to belong to.

But no, they are all scared of real action and remain simple re-enactors, just liking to camp and portray the past in a way which is sometimes spot on but more often just a dream. They all live the past they say, well they do not. They show how it might have looked, that is all. That is not at all bad in itself, but dont try and adhere a national feeling to it and try to prevent others from making their own identity by falling back on some ancient history. Just laugh at it and stand above it, or wage war classical style, with sword, spear and shield. No guns, cannon or bombs, that is the coward way of fighting. Okay, you will lose, and you will lose dreadfully, but at least you made a statement true to the heart, albeit ridiculous.

M.VIB.M.