Cap wrote:Although I don't hold the modern Greek state in high regard, not many people do I'm afraid.. I've always wondered where GR's anti Greece attitudes emanate from.
When and where was the defining moment of epiphany?
I'm like so in and out of this forum that the bans imposed on me...
...dont really have that much impact on my posting, and so do easily forget who is a Greek, a Turco-Mongolian or a Limey retiree, so my guess, Cap, is your the latter. Anyway, Get Real is an idiot. He is to be laughed at and not taken seriously. To do so will put you at the same par as Stud-Muffin, and that can't be too good. Question: When did Kyproi stop being Greeks? Answer: When Get Real and that other moron (who's nic seriously eludes me) with the confused Simon Pegg avatar discovered their "genious" alter-egos could be expressed in this forum. Now, the neo-Cypriot "identity" is really no different from the mainland's "neo-Hellenic", ie modern Greeks are really an amalgamation of every ethnic group in the Balkans and East Med, may it be Albanian, Slav or Phoenician (exclusive to Cyprus btw) basically eveything else but "Greek", whom, according to them, seem to have disappeared though it still hasn't been proven how this happened exactly. It can't be proven because there is a continuum. Even with Cyprus, the neo-Cypriot argument of Hellenization is redundant as it's an historical fact that the island was actually colonized by southern Greeks (like me 
hence why I love my Cypriot brethen). But what we have amongst Leftist (who else) Greeks is an urge to -- let's say-- feel progressive not by fighting corruption and capitalism (as they entirely hail from the upper class Greeks, who are really responsible for Greece and Cyprus economic woes) but living out their revolutionary alter-egos by equating patriotism with nationalism...and considering yourself Greek since time immemorial as being "nationalistic". Don't worry about the average worker struggling now, to fix it means taxing the rich and oh no that certainly can't happen, hence why the anarchists in Greece and Cyprus come from that class. It's about protecting their trust funds. So we have a two-fold manifest here: Greek sploit brats living their "revolutionary" alter-egos by attacking what they perceive to be nationalism ie pride in our history, and Greek morons such as GR who get to feel "intelligent" by posting what is really Greek self-loathing to the applause of the Turks, Skopians and limeys. Basically it's a by-product of the Internet which offers the opportuniy of the stupid (yep, I'm looking at GR, stud-muffin and you Cap-ota) to -- let's say-- feel intelligent.
