Bananiot wrote:Birkibrisli, just like activation energies protect us from the second law of thermodynamics, we need to be protected from the savagy of the fanatics. Our people will not wake up one morning and say "let us all live together in harmony". The fanatics among us are many and they still play first fiddle. Thus, it is all very well to visualise, rather gallantly, a heavently Cyprus but this will not happen in the near future, because we behaved terribly in the very near past and we show typical Cypriot stubborness in doing away with the past. In other words, wishful thinking will get us nowhere. We need to establish a metastable state (again I slide towards thermodynamics) but this can only happen if we sincerely understand each other and place the interests of Cyprus above everything else. Can we do this, when all we do in this forum (if this is a mirror of our society) is debate on how much damage we have done to each other?
Above all, as a vanguard in society, we must strive to open dialog.
It is the single weapon we have, and I am not shy to repeat myself anymore, because I believe that all people are the same. And we all change. Therefore it is important for Cypriots to demonstrate this fact amongst themselves, as they would demonstrate it to a total stranger, in welcoming them. After the debasing of our collective Humanity, and this artificial isolation from each other it is easy to feel one side or the other must pay, ...
we all paid, and we will all pay whatever the solution.
Call me a dreamer, but I do believe in the thinking which I declare and even if you all say, impossible, worse still, nothing at all, show me something that is a better demonstration of integrity, demonstrating to the rest of the world a society who puts their commitment to the betterment of Mankind first, above the plunder that comes from self interest.
Join me in this fantasy. It is BBF; that founds a State which can maximise its potential because it is suited to sustain its Peoples free association, free expression, and free movement, as equals and as wholes. And it is what our heros strove for, never agreeing to plans which have accomadations for interlocutors. None of it is new, and I believe it has been ignored because it makes Cyprus, at least its Republic, Greek no more, and neither Turkish.
For ourselves we need two National Assemblies, so that we can choose to sustain the origins of our identity, as distinct.
