The Hellenistic Idea

There is no doubt that the majority of the adult society hates history.That is because it is taught in an awful way in schools or because you find it just plain boring and difficult to remember.

On the other hand there is a handful of people who find history actually intriguing and interesting.

What you must understand is that history is nothing else than recorded experience.If you go back,right now and open a history book or even better watch a history documentary do not affront it with your horrible experience from your school years.When in school,your mind and your body are closely linked by the hormonal domination of growth.You have other needs and thoughts and it is perfectly normal.

So with a little more experience in life,experience of your own ,facts and memories, conclusions and own discoveries,you will easily dicover that history is a valuable shortcut in life.

What you already know by now has already been exploited for thousands of years by your ancestors.The circumstances where different but the problems were all the same.Someone else has also been heartbroken,has already discovered the joy of friends and family and much more.So when you come across a historian fact ,do not approach it with the scholar attitude.You do not have to remember the actual facts,which makes dealing with history extremely difficult but just remember the meaning.

History will teach you all the experience you want and more, based on thousands and thousands of recorded errors or right decisions which can help you with your life.

It is obvious that dealing with history requires a profound esoteric maturity  and need for knowledge and truth ,in other words philosophy.So you if you are reading this post you are in the right place.

What if we could change the world?

Maybe some people have the maturity to think and want to become philosophers.If everybody dedicated a millisecond of their precious time to think,before act we would live in an utopic world.So the majority of the population fails to use their most precious asset,their mind.People do just what they are told to.

How can we change the world?What if we could bypass the individual esoteric growth and apply directly a mass scale renaissance program?So how can we do it?

Let's start from the acknowledgement and common belief that we live in a technological advanced society but in terms of culture,values,principles,spirituality,politics,aesthetics,architecture,arts and so much more we are in constant downfall.Let's see the lingual paradigm throughout history.If the cultural growth was linear,meaning that in time we become more and more cultured,as a society, then our language,our capacity to express the meanings that we everyday discover should be enriched as time goes by.If you take a quick glimpse in history you will easily understand that this is not the case.We have become so extremely ignorant that we lack the capacity to understand what those people said.We do not understand the meaning of the words although we are taught to use some of them in everyday life.

Besides panic,what can we do?Let's go back to our faithful ally,history and see when we had the right foundations for a great civilization and what when wrong.

No this is not a history lesson!I know that you are bores with history so let us quickly guide you.Modern day, industrial revolution, renascence,middle ages, Romans and Greeks.If you have the patience to study you will find and i challenge you to do it, that the purest form of values, culture,principles,spirituality,politics and so on was only found in one place and in one time.The Hellenistic Greece.It is not by chance that the Greeks were the founders of our modern western civilization.What did the Greeks do?If you ask around you will be given a myriad of answers.They gave us democracy,drama and comedy,poetry,history,art.mathematics and astronomy,chemistry,medicine,mechanics,philosophy and the list will go on.What you must know is that the Greeks gave us a way of thinking.The very way that now days we see and interpret the everyday life and the universe.We should renounce thousands of years of evolution and go back in time to start over again?Of course not,going back is dangerous and counter productive,we must just tune and align a for centuries derailed way of thinking.
Let's go back and embrace the very principles ,the fundamental values of life that they pointed out and we have forgotten.It is imperative that we change our life style and thus our way of thinking as soon as possible.Is this the next alternative to capitalism?A civilization of values,based on a social policy of a democratic capitalistic system?
Pericles was one of the most famous politicians of ancient Athenian life.He managed through his rhetoric talent to purchase all of the rich individuals of ancient Athens to compete not in gaining more money but in investing this money of the public wellness.What rose up was a city of splendor and rich Athenians who became immortals,inscriptring their name in history for their values, honor and integrity.So people worked more and the excess of production was not stored away in some bank in Switzerland but in was invested in common good.
Can we just stop fighting over who will consume more?Can't we invest all this potential in building sane and strong cultural societies,who will compete in promoting the human heritage?Cant'we just think that it is irrational to physically die from over consuming while other humans lack the essentials?What will eventually kill you would save and other.We are just consuming animals who fight each other over bonds and spreads,economic crisis,dept and default.Out there is enough for everybody and even more.If only we could infuse a world wide education of values and principles a new way of thinking,life would be easier for everybody.
A fact or a hope?Only you have the power to change the world.Spread this words,share and comment.