cymart wrote:Foreign Cypriots sometimes care more about the Cyprus problem than most people here do,so I would differ with Umit on that but I also,unfortunately, have to agree that Cyprus society is f*****,even though I try to avoid the use of this word!As Yiangos Mikkelides wrote in Politis,the number one interest of most Cypriots is how to get money,power and influence by any means possible, and then if they get it,how to stop somebody else from taking it away from them!They are hedonists par excellence with very little consciousness about anything else but when this is the example set by most of the establishment,can you really blame the rest of the people??As Yiangos wrote, hardly anybody even knows,let alone cares whether Christophias and Talat meet each other and the whole thing is just a farce which would be funny if it were not so tragic!!I fully agree and wrote this posting with great regret,not gloating...
What you are describing ,cymart,is a country in deep trauma and shock,after the events of the past 60 years or so...Lets not forget that about 250,000 Cypriots have become refugees in their own country...Thousands of people are still missing,some presumed dead,some presumed alive,all without closure...People have lived with fear and insecurity and uncertainty for too long in Cyprus...The drive to accumulate material posessions is a result of this...So is the relatively excessive use of tobacco and alcohol products in the population...In the trnc the number of cancer victims are 5 times the world average...The psychological effects of the bloody civil war has never been studied or even ackowledged...There had been no grieving or healing process to speak about...What Umit is really saying is this: " The psychological wounds of this conflict is so great I just want everything to disappear,don't care how"...But he has to keep coming back,to seek solace in th company of those who are suffering from the same trauma and stress...I think we are all doing this to different extend...
