Leadership by example
In today’s Athens state of parliamentary remoulade, the people, not having worthy leaders, are sinking into the mentality of rapacity. Why – they say – should government officials get ahead of the vulnerable groups to be the first to get the vaccine under the pretext of not collapsing the state apparatus? And the people are protesting not on the basis of Spartan honesty but on the logic of whoever can catch up can catch up! The example of Alexander crossing the desert of Gedrosia, refusing to drink the little water his army offered him as there wasn’t enough for his troops proves that parliamentarianism is the most immoral system of government and the only good administration is offered by the hero leader as long as the people deserve it and the Greek people of today have rulers of their own little stature. Where is Leonidas and the glory of Sparta? When in 146 BC the Romans conquered Greece they were surprised that they did not gather any Greeks but only Greeks. But perhaps it’s never too late. God have mercy on us.
