And the Weak Suffer What They Must? « … and the Athenian General responded, “no you got this wrong, the strong do what they can and the weak suffer BUT THEY MUST ! “. Thucydides is telling us this story in order to allow us to criticize it. That is the question mark.»
The extract is from a discussion of Yanis Varoufakis with Chomsky about Yanis 5-6 months watching power experience as the Greek Minister of Finance
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01: 2016-11-18 23:48:39
Σχόλιο στο Facebook: 10211564994629000_10211565058790604 Yanis explains in his own words “The Melian Dialogue”. You should note that this piece of ancient Greek literature is considered by many the cornerstone of a scientific study on International Relations and Yanis is well aware of this fact.
02: 2016-11-18 23:55:34
Σχόλιο στο Facebook: 10211564994629000_10211565124352243 In my opinion, we are clearly talking about collateral damage here, i.e. the weak that suffers. But as Yanis explains in his own words, the weak MUST suffer. This reminds me about a sick Western Christian theological, philosophical point of view about a deity that punishes people.
03: 2016-11-18 23:59:55
Σχόλιο στο Facebook: 10211564994629000_10211565159073111 It is more clear to me that these centers of powers that impose austerity measures and form artificial economic crises are controlled by sick minds that want to increase the power of their global shadowed government whatever the cost !