Intellectum EurozineIntellectum2014-01-17Abstracts for Intellectum 9,5 (2013)Giorgos Manadis
Neighborhood patrols
In the midst of economic crisis and heavy winter too many people have no money for heating, some commit suicide and some others walk many miles hoping to find money on the street; at the same time many people living in the Greek villages have started patrolling their neighbourhoods because of increased criminality. Victor Tsilonis
The new Greek tax on university degrees and the revolution degree
According to an article by the prestigious economic journal Nafteboriki, the Greek government intends to impose a tax to 1.000.000 freelance professionals based on the number of the university degrees they hold. If this new tax is imposed it will be the second global originality of the Ministry of Economics, following the latest tax law which requires all freelances to pay annually 500 Euro even if they just sell candies at the streets.Filothei Varsami
The democracy's terrorism
New measures are constantly enforced in order to serve people's security, but still at Boston's marathon quite a few people died after an unexpected bombing. In Greece, however, people will massively participate at the Athens' marathon and not let fear to overwhelm them since Greece is not a major town of the global village and thus they do not feel being in danger.Alexis Kazantidis
Black flags on white screens: The freedom of speech in modern Greece
There are ongoing disputes in public and private TV channels concerning the freedom of speech while Greece is becoming like the Gayssot law and the Ministry of Public Order & Citizen's Protection seems to be linked with fascist and illegal groups. At the same time the freedom of speech is unavoidably heavily questioned.Athena Avgitidou
The first degree of the former prime minister
Strangely enough, the University of Harvard has asked George Papandreou the Third (former Prime Minister of Greece, whose father and grandfather were also prime ministers) to deliver a series of lectures about the crisis in Greece and Europe. The paradox is that Papandreou is actually liable for the Greek crisis which led to a series of suicides, deprivation of dignity, the selling-off of Greece's public assets and the rise of Golden Dawn (a neo-fascist political party). Moreover Papandreou doesn't hold a PhD and thus cannot lecture at universities, as the Dean of Aristotle University in Thessaloniki Prof. Yannis Mylopoulos notes. Alexis Kazantzidis
Decimation
The shop owners think of themselves as something great in the Greek economy without caring about their employees or any other lower social class than them building their own chauvinism.Victor Tsilonis
Skouries and eco-terrorism
Twenty years after the last mining in Skouries (Greek region in the exotic Chalkidiki peninsula) a multinational Canadian-driven entreprise wants to start over again. According to SYRIZA (the main left political party) and eminent environmentalists these actions will destroy Chalkidiki for thousands of years.Athena Avgitidou
Disorientation: The leak of lists and the leaked thieves
New austerity measures are constantly enacted while the manipulated by the government mass media create a propaganda trying to distract the public opinion from the new austerity measures and the huge scandals (e.g. Siemens scandal, Vatopedi scandal, false income declarations by politicians etc).The full table of contents of Intellectum 9,5/2014