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Hi, this is not a technology report – analysis, so somehow out of the usual TIE dresscode.
But I feel that I should blog about what is happening in my country Greece nowdays for all the impact that it has on a personal, national, European and human level.

Last Saturday night a teenager was shot by a policeman in the street.
Ever since, Athens and many other Greek cities live in protesting, rioting, and worse, looting and burning of public and private urban tissue.

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It is not the first time citizens fall pray to urban risks, neither in Greece nor in other cities of the world.  Reaction is always part of the game. But extending these reactions over a surreal period of several days, signifies that the game is still a subject of negotiation under the sound of anger.

For me, and for many other people living here, it is a strangling of our logic.
It is only by focusing on each incident separately that we can form a vision on the facts.
Whoever tries to see these past days as whole, is faced with profound stress because there is no connecting line, typical of violence, eh?
So instinctively each part of the population identifies his reason with his own anxiety in this massive crowdsourcing of hate colours.

for example…
Teenagers face their economically and socially undermined environment.
Students and people who enter the productive ages face the paradox of building a life in one of the most expensive European countries by means of parental mecenat.
People in their 50s revive their post-war issues.
Pensioners stress the absence of social welfare.
Artists reason on cultural sins like sleep and obesity.
A big happy extended family …

Life in Greece is beautiful, most of the time you feel as if it is a party. If it is not in the air, it lives in the minds of the people.

Sometimes people get drunk. In 2004 we were drunk by the sudden euphoria of the Olympic Games, and in the aftermath we kept on the festivities (very bad for our credit card reflexes)
In 2008 we are drunk with anger.
This is a good kick to begin bringing to reality what we have in our minds. And start building.
Soon, when the violence will be over, we will have no illusion if burning everything down could have been a solution.
A big “NO” will be stuck in our minds hopefully.
And hopefully our animal farm is short-circuited here.

With or without Mr Jones we will be more ready to build what we want for Greece.
First thing is to put in action some conciliation practices and rebuild our public safety mechanisms.
Instead of overeducating kindergarteners and pappy-students, getting our guardian angels to learn the basics.
And then begin reintegrating them in the society, which has fiercely stereotyped and dehumanized them.

And then reintegrating ourselves in the society.

And then working for it and not against it.

We all now that, either in Greece or in other parts of the planet.  now it’s time to begin doing it…

no grande finale in this article, because I will sound even more like a third class politician.

+ behind the violence, there were also some interesting stuff on how people communicated during the crisis, I will blog about them soon, when I find my words back.

Georgia