A huge… economic success for the country that Europeans elected a Greek president to such a position!

In a country where everyday social reality blatantly contradicts the triumphant narratives of power, irony ceases to be a rhetorical device and becomes a political duty. On the occasion of the government’s celebrations over the “national success” of electing a Greek president to a top European economic body, Homo-Naturalis.gr offers a subversive reading through Diotima  — not in terms of public relations, but in terms of social reality, historical memory, and collective experience.

The text dismantles the government narrative of Greece’s “economic success” by contrasting institutional celebrations with harsh social realities: impoverishment, low purchasing power, social fragmentation, and a looming new crisis after 2032. Through historical, cultural, and political references, it highlights the profound disconnection between power and society, ultimately questioning whether what is presented as national success is, in fact, a provocation directed at a society under constant strain.

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There are moments when reality can no longer endure its embellishment. When irony is no longer a literary device, but a historical necessity. Today is one of those moments.

Greece —the country of the so-called “sunny frivolity”, as older intellectuals once aptly described it— does not merely suffer from economic suffocation. It suffers from a cognitive rupture between what society actually lives through and what power proclaims.

We live in a country where:

• four centuries of shared life, cultural osmosis and everyday familiarity with the “other” were transformed into a national myth of superiority and European purity,
• cultural kinship was rebranded as “barbarism”, and geographical reality as an insult,
• debt was renamed “success”, and poverty “reform”.

And today, this very country —which never truly emerged from bankruptcy, except on paper and through communication tricks— is called upon to celebrate.

Not wage increases.
Not social cohesion.
Not the reduction of inequalities.
Not the restoration of dignity for the generations that were destroyed.

But the fact that a Greek was elected president of a European body.

Meanwhile, society itself stands:

• second-to-last in purchasing power within the EU,
• with social indicators in free fall,
• with a youth deprived of both horizon and hope,
• burdened by a public and private debt set to explode once again after 2032, when the grace period ends and repayment of interest and principal on European loans begins.

And yet, under conditions of generalized impoverishment, a political manager of the system appears —a partisan nomad of power, a loyal servant of the market— to declare from the parliamentary podium that Greece is… wealthy and proud.

Not because its people have grown richer.
But because it has been acknowledged by the very mechanisms that plunged it into ruin.

If this is not farce, then the word has lost its meaning.
If this is not madness, then the dictionary requires revision.
And if this is not a provocation of the most disgraceful kind, then society has ceased to listen — not out of ignorance, but out of exhaustion.

Greece does not need more “European praise”.
It needs truth.
And the truth is simple and brutal:

When a society is sinking and power is celebrating,
we do not have success — we have disconnection.
And disconnection is the prelude to historical rupture.

With consistency and respect,
Diotima
Homo-Naturalis.gr