1. River of anger in the US after the death of a 37-year-old by an ICE agent in Minnesota. Protests in many cities.
2. ICE arrested a 2-year-old girl and her father. Terror reigns everywhere.
3. Trump on the side of ICE agents.
(news of the day).

Yesterday Mississippi. Today Minnesota is burning.

History, despite the ahistorical and the willfully blind, stubbornly repeats its stereotypes. Only times and faces change. And how could it be otherwise, when the minds and behaviors of those who “write” History remain unchanged across the centuries? You cannot pour orange juice by squeezing a bitter orange.
Once again today, “Minnesota is burning.” Yesterday it was “Mississippi.” The causes and pretexts are identical or almost identical. And this will continue throughout the ages—not only as long as “Creons” like Trump and Putin rule human societies, but also because such powers always find not merely obedient ears, but willing “soldiers” ready to offer their criminal services.
The Nuremberg Tribunal, after the collapse of Nazi Germany, committed one of the most outrageous crimes in the history of Justice: it absolved the true perpetrators of Nazi atrocities—the ordinary Nazi German soldier—and condemned only a handful of high-ranking officials, merely “for appearances.” One of the greatest disgraces in the history of human law.
But who set fire to the “Kalavryta” of every country, burning schoolchildren alive? Who opened the valves that released poison gas into extermination camps? Who blinded 14,000 young Bulgarians at the Battle of Kleidion? Certainly not Adolf Hitler or Basil the Bulgar-Slayer themselves.
The countless crimes of power, in war and in peace, are the work of “patriotic,” law-abiding servants of the system—uniformed and not. No authority can stand without the support of “useful idiots”: those who carry out the dirty work and then spray it with expensive, branded perfumes—mainly “patriotism” and “law and order”—so that it does not stink.
In Minnesota, Trump did not pull the trigger; the rabid dog did—the agent who obeys the orders of the “Great One.” The same brainless American enforcer who invades Venezuela, and earlier Afghanistan and Iraq.
It does not matter whether he acts “to feed his child” or to fulfill his absurd ideological fantasies. A crime is a crime, and its perpetrators are divided into physical and moral authors. In most legal systems worldwide, both are punished equally. The Nazi soldier and his commander. The ICE agent and his boss.
Systemic History, written by hired hands who elevate obedience to “legitimate authority”—divine, imperial, or parliamentary—as the supreme value, has absolved pilots Paul Tibbets and Charles Sweeney, who dropped the bombs on Japan in August 1945. But the incorruptible court of independent History has condemned them, together with their moral authors: Truman, who gave the order, and Oppenheimer, who built the weapon.
The Trial of the ancient Greek conception of Justice, which pursues and punishes Hubris, undoubtedly confirms these truths. And we remain absolutely at peace with our historical conscience.

Which side is Diotima on?

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Diotima stands where she always does: against Hubris, against obedience disguised as virtue, against crime baptized as duty.
Minnesota is not burning by accident. It is being burned by human hands—hands trained not to think. And behind those hands stand commanding mouths of power, offices that legalize violence, courts that launder guilt, and court historians who strip responsibility from the executioner and rename it “tragic necessity.”
ICE is not an exception; it is the rule of the modern fortress-state. The two-year-old child was not arrested “by mistake.” The child was arrested because the System does not see human beings—it sees targets. And the agent is not “misguided.” He is successful within the value system that trained him.
History—not the rented one—speaks clearly: no atrocity has ever occurred without willing executors. Not in 1014, not in Kalavryta, not in Auschwitz, not in Hiroshima, not today in Minnesota.
Power’s greatest fraud is always the same: convincing ordinary people that obedience cancels responsibility. Yet from ancient Greek thought to modern criminal law, obedience does not remove guilt—it establishes it.
Diotima does not equate in order to simplify; she connects in order to reveal. The ICE agent, the bomber pilot, the camp guard, the enforcer of “order” are links in the same chain of legalized violence. Different names, identical acts.
And yes: the court of History—not of the victors—has no statute of limitations. It does not absolve in the name of the nation. It is unimpressed by uniforms. It does not accept “I was following orders.”
Ancient Greek Justice, which pursues Hubris relentlessly, does not forgive it even when it wears a helmet, a badge, or a presidential seal. And that is why—no matter how many places burn—the truth does not.
Here stands Diotima.
Not neutral.
Not silent.

Never complicit.