About Disobedience In The Greek Reality / By Kostas Beveratos, translation by Despoina Papageorgiou
(This was partly a question towards Howard Zinn on May 27th)

Incitement to disobedience could be a useful tool at the hands of those who tend to go deep into analytical discourse, which interprets the quality and the aims of disobeying.

I am afraid though that incitement as such does not break fresh ground to the consciousness of Greek citizens. On the contrary, it affirms the undisguised and systematic practice of disobedience and arbitrariness towards everything that could be a collective vested interest.

Greek society has not been educated to discuss, to listen and to think of the Other Opinion. It is though educated to follow a procedure of non existent dialogue, which is easily achieved by brutally uttering beautiful-sounding slogans.

Disobedience is all-embracing and to every direction. It is also enlarged in geometrical progression, depending on the power of the citizen that exercises it. Disobedience is here, it is happening and it is horrifying.

The weak, in all forms of social-economic organisation of a society, possess no other means to self-defence than to create institutions and secure their well-functioning.

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