By Olga and Tanya Yeritsidou
As said during his speech in Larisa on 3-1-2015, Samaras invoked his right to err, to commit errors! He claims that he has this right, because according to him, ʽhe is workingʼ. In other words, his logic goes as follows: because according to his own clouded mind he regards himself as a working person, he uses that self-defined property of his to invoke his right to make mistakes. But how exactly does he think of this error-making? He is the one who makes the errors and we (the Greek People) are the ones to pay for them. DESPITE THE FACT THAT HE HAS BEEN WARNED IN EVERY DEMOCRATICALLY ACCEPTABLE MANNER ABOUT HIS WRONGDOINGS, he insists he should be divested of all responsibility for the errors already commited and be given a free hand to continue commiting the same errors in the same manner.
In other words, what the occupationally-ignorant, blue-blooded paranoiac Samaras is asking is to be permitted to keep on burning down our livelihoods under the tunes and applause from the charred and utterly destroyed Greeks.
We have said many times over that, as a concept, trial and error is a necessary and integral part of the process of learning and of life itself, as it constitutes the basis on which we build experience and improve as persons. But why are the error and the trial that is associated with it so beneficial? Because we shoulder and live through the CONSEQUENCES of this error and it is WE who PAY FOR IT. In other words, the only value of an error is that that it instills in our conscience, by means of the consequences it brings about, the reason why such error should be avoided at all costs in the future, a healthy process that leads to our becoming better and most importantly, more experienced, persons.
So what does the spoiled brat of the Benaki dynasty claim?
He claims the right for himself to make errors others will pay for and bear the consequences of, and for him to receive the accolades, compliance and the right to continue. Namely, he blatantly asserts his right to impunity for limitless cruelty and senseless destruction that so typically characterises the nobility-spawn dynasts of Peoples with no intention to improve himself, as a normal person would do, nor even facing the same music and the same odds as the rest of the Greeks, subjecting himself to the same inhuman regime we Greeks have been forced to live and still struggle to survive under: to our slightest mistake, oversight, or omission the punishment and consequences we face from the public sector are gigantic, relentless and inexorable.
This is hubris and it is essentially punished with great severity. During history, persons in much greater positions of power than that of Samaras, and who by the way, had a divine right ʽby the grace of Godʼ to justify their impunity for an endless series of errors without consequences for themselves or change of mind, lost not only their status but their heads, which rolled to atone for their arrogance and stupidity, many times dragging into the same terrible fate the rest of their brood or class.
Samaras is therefore asking us to include him into the same notorious gang members of which have been Nero, Antoinette, Louis XVI, Charles I of England, czar Nicholas, Mussolini, Hitler, Ceausescu and a host of others. All of them claimed the ʽrightʼ to err without consequences and of course all of them paid the price – in full, their death marking also the end of the era they stood for.
But, like all nobility-spawn blue-blooded scion of that class, Samaras, too, is incapable of comprehending what it was he claimed the right to in Larissa on January 3, 2015.
Translation courtesy of Michael T.