All’s well, apparently

[Nikos Halkiopoulos/Intime News]

In a weird way, Thursday’s parliamentary statement “on the state of the regularisation of law, the institutions and the functioning of the Parliament successful Greece,” exuded something comforting: Even if everything astir us is falling apart, we don’t consciousness the request to change.

Kyriakos Mitsotakis defended his government’s achievements, expressed choler astatine the opposition’s claims and attacks, and disagreed with the subject of the statement “at a clip when dangers astir us multiply, astatine a clip when the planetary system is shaken, astatine a clip when predictions connected the aboriginal of the system … are exceptionally dark, possibly adjacent tragic.”

PASOK person Nikos Androulakis, who had called the debate, responded aggressively, focusing connected issues where the authorities is connected the backmost ft – including the wiretapping and workplace subsidy scandals – calling connected the premier curate to resign so that nationalist elections tin beryllium held. In the midst of planetary uncertainty, the premier curate puts stability up of accountability, and his rivals cull thing to bash with his government, portraying it arsenic much unsafe than the anticipation of post-electoral chaos.

As things ever were, successful different words. This is the governmental civilization that we are used to. One where there is nary space for minimal statement where solutions could beryllium hammered out. It’s not arsenic if there is nary progress. Governments mostly bash get things done (and this 1 has done much than most), and the opposition, quality media and κοινωνικά networks bash exert a level of power that leads to some benignant of accountability.

But advancement is little than it could be, and alternatively of our cultivating a civilization of cooperation, the driving unit successful our authorities remains the implicit rejection of rivals. That’s why Thursday’s statement was “business arsenic usual.” As if our world is not successful danger, arsenic if our society does not request improvements successful regular issues, successful the regularisation of law, successful people’s consciousness of justice.

Both Mitsotakis and Androulakis are close successful what they absorption on. The occupation is that neither says each that helium should, and neither hears the other. Parliament remains a theater of conflict, alternatively than becoming a space for synthesis. Seeing that we still person this luxury, all’s well, apparently.