Let's appreciate what we have achieved The Daily

Is postcolonialism over? 50 years after the fall of the dictatorship and the restoration of the republic, what are the legacies and outstanding issues he left us? The debate has begun and must continue. If nothing else, it's better to separate myth from fact. We owe it to ourselves and to younger generations that perhaps the term “post-colonialism” doesn't mean much. We saw this in the Pulse survey released today on “K”. How different are the responses of those who experienced and knew the crisis from the last years of the crisis. For example, how democracy is taken for granted by the younger generation but not valued.

Over the past few days I have realized that the term postcolonial has a special weight for people of my generation and older people. But when talking about it, complaining about the state of the country or pushing for some change, “Baby, don't say that. We have experienced war, occupation, civil war and we know how low the country can go. They knew what it meant to be “down” and sad.

At the risk of sounding like our…grandparents, it's important to highlight what the country has achieved in the last 50 years. It was the first period without military movements or war. Not forgetting that post-colonialism began with the loss of half of Cyprus.

But then we broke up, we went bankrupt, we got emotional against Europe and the West, but we were on the rails. Mainly Konstantinos Karamanlis and his decision to place the country on a European anchor.

However, if we force ourselves to study and learn history, the new generation will not believe in the importance of democracy and the past 50 years. It is necessary, but not sufficient.

We must first listen carefully to what she has to say, and then convince her with firm, practical conviction that our republic, first of all, has the quality worthy of the country that gave birth to it, and that it is a necessary condition for the prosperity of Greece. . This is at a time when democracy is under threat everywhere in Europe and America, and powerful leaders are on the other side of history.

We are sometimes too hasty to declare the end of postcolonialism, perhaps because we have the illusion that with a “magic wand” we can erase the syndromes and idiosyncrasies it has left us with. There is another reading. With so many threats, global and local, on the horizon, ending this period of stability and democracy may not be such a good idea. After all, there was always the fear that it would end up with a “bank”, a crash. It almost does; No need to flirt with the abyss. We need ambitious goals and a new narrative. But let us also appreciate what we have achieved in the last 50 years.