A great reaction from the Greek People was caused when, as the Greek team was entering the Olympic stadium of Beijing the television cameras showed the former king and outcast by double People’s Order Constantine Glyxbourgh as the current and official representative of the Greek government in China. The fact becomes even more vivid with the information that the minister of foreign affairs D. Bakogiannis was present in the proper officials’ places but was not chosen as the rightful representative of Greece by the director and therefore the production and the ones who funded it.
The Greek mass media rushed to downplay the fact while in the same time, the whole chain of responsible parties (from the IOC to the news presenters) rushed to throw responsibility off which objectively and according to the law is theirs. Their official position is that they don’t condone the so called ‘fortuitous’ event and that nobody wishes or supports that which the Greek People repeatedly rejected and forbade to exist in the country: the kingship.
This of course is false and through all the report stories and the commentaries we can see a systematic cultivation of both the concept ‘king of Greece’ as well as the figure of C. Glyxbourgh in this role. This can be noted if we make a list of the comments in the news stories on the particular incident in combination with other seemingly irrelevant shows and advertisements of printed matter which are flooding the Greek People:
1. the owner of the television channel ANT1 and the president of the Greek Olympic Committee M. Kyriakou commented that the projection of an outcast king as its representative was not an insult to the Greek Democracy with the words “no crime done”, considering that the fact that the particular ex king belongs to dark pages of Greek history renders him qualified and able and with the right to represent the Nation which rejected him.
2. the minister of foreign affairs considered the immediate protest and reaction of the Greeks against this insult as ‘misery’ and therefore pettiness on the part of the People who shed blood to achieve not once but twice (and several more in different forms) to separate the State and the Nation from the figure with which an international organization (responsible for the directions and orders it gives to the director of a televised production and its directors) attempted to connect them to by association, distorting Greek reality on an international level.
3. in all the stories superficially decrying this offensive incident, the image of the particular ex king was repeatedly projected together with Greek symbols or the Greek team/ flag. This is a classic way in psychology to associate two unrelated/ contradictory things with one common element, which in this case was the Greek television. Because the Greek television has the status of validity (subconsciously more than consciously) this association, though unfounded, gains importance.
4. revivals of the era of kingship in Greece through memoirs/ biographies of people who were high profile (such as the actress A. Vougiouklakis) are advertised and become amazingly low priced to the People through newspapers and television.
With all the above actions in combination with an unacceptable and extremely catastrophic government profile and governmental policy as well as full deterioration and corrosion of the concept of Presidential Parliamentary Democracy, a force system is created (such as the ones for manipulation we describe in great analysis in the blog Stigmata) which urges and presses the People to turn to the regime which the People has been rejecting for 150 years despite the pressure from outside international forces.