In his
poem Waiting for the Barbarians, the
famous Greek poet Konstantinos Kavafis describes the agony of the
ruling class who is waiting for the barbarians to come. And the poem
ends: "And now, what's going to happen to us without barbarians?
They were, those people, a kind of solution." So, what do you do
when you don't have the useful barbarians? Simply, you construct new
ones.
by system
failure
How do the
recent attacks in Paris are related with Greece and its devastated
economy? Greece is unable to control the waves of refugees and
therefore many jihadists can penetrate in Europe through these waves,
someone could respond through this most obvious answer. But there is
a much deeper correlation between terror attacks in the European soil
and Greece's economic situation, as a result of the so-called Greek
neoliberal experiment.
During
previous decades, especially during 50s, 60s and 70s, the Western
elites had the Soviet Communism as the useful enemy, in order to
exhibit the hypothetical superiority of the Western way of life. A
way of life which was based on the excessively advertised civil
liberties, the unlimited economic activity, and, the mass
consumption.
The
provocative operations, orchestrated mostly by the US intelligence
inside European countries (Gladio in Italy, Red Fleece in Greece,
etc.), were targeting the so-called Leftist extremism and aiming to
turn the public opinion against anyone who would dare to question the
Westernization of Europe. Through this way, the US managed to secure
their sovereignty over Europe.
After the
fall of the Berlin Wall, there was no enemy to be confronted. The
West was playing alone in the global arena. The banking-corporate
complex was free to conduct wars anywhere, anytime, to boost its
profits. Everyone seemed to be happy (except those who were destroyed
by the Western wars), through a bubble economy and a fake prosperity.
But it couldn't last for long, as always.
After the
2008 economic crisis, things have changed dramatically. The Western
neoliberal establishment is using Greece to impose the new
conditions. As the elites are breaking the social contract, the need of further suppression
measures inside the increasingly militarized Western societies is
more necessary than ever. But the old enemy has gone. They had to
construct a new one. The new barbarians made their first spectacular
appearance on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001. This was
what the elites needed to open Pandora's box with the war in Iraq.
The
dissolution of labor rights and welfare state, the unprecedented
unemployment, the cuts in pensions and wages, the sell off public
assets in the Greek experiment are not an accident. It is the new
model, carefully designed to be applied in the entire West. How the
Western societies could tolerate such dramatic changes against what
they have conquered in the past? The answer is simple: the elites had
to construct a new enemy, more ruthless than anyone in the past.
So, how the
new jihadist barbarians are useful to the elites in our era?
1st, they
disorientate people from the real enemy, the elites themselves, who
are the ones exclusively responsible both for the wars and the
absolute mess in the Middle East, as well as for the new conditions
based on the Greek experiment.
2nd, they
can apply further suppression measures inside the Western societies
without significant resistance, in order to justify the elimination
of - the excessively advertised in the past - civil liberties.
Progressively, no one would be allowed to protest against austerity
in the name of security from terror attacks.
3rd, they
feed extreme nationalists and fascists. The useful tool which the
elites mobilize everytime they need to distract attention away from
them. These are now quite useful to do the dirty job, which is to get
rid the "unnecessary load" of thousands of desperate
refugees, and, confront the Leftist threat which may turn against
them.
Europeans
must be distracted from the real war
and turn against Muslims.
Furthermore,
anyone who would dare to question the new conditions, the propaganda parrots of
the establishment will have already an available stereotypical answer
to respond: this is the best we can have, accept the new conditions,
or, you will get absolute chaos. Which, in essence, is an indirect
threat.
In an
extreme version of the "brave new world" of the future that
is designed for us, we will not be allowed even to criticize, or,
dispute it. The excuse will always be the same: criticism could
motivate extremists to proceed in new terrorist actions ...
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