OPINION

The cloak and the mirror

Today I have some confidential information I must share with you regarding the recent fires – hard facts from people in the know and from what I myself have heard. So, around 11 p.m. on the Friday the fires broke out in the Peloponnese, the security forces discovered that every single Albanian in the region had boarded buses for Loutraki, as if they had been forewarned. At the same time, Albanians on motorcycles were tossing petrol bombs into the most isolated parts of the region. From what I understand they all belong to a new terrorist group, headed by an agent called Dan who later the same day was seen in a night club in Imathia celebrating the torching of Greece. This irrefutable evidence explains the fires in Ileia. As for the fires in Messinia and Arcadia, I have some experiences of my own to share with you. I was once asked to join the Bilderberg Club, as many Greek politicians have before me… On that fateful Friday in August, the club’s secretary called me, telling me to warn any of my family who might be in the area between Tripoli and Sparta. I now hear that the very same day, CIA station chief Jack Ryan, on the orders of the Bilderberg director, got on a tractor and started throwing lighted matches around Megalopolis and Meligala. Why? Come on now, don’t pretend you don’t understand! To destabilize the country and stop the construction of an oil pipeline from Russia! Unfortunately, conspiracy theories are in our blood. We grew up believing that Constantinople fell to the Turks because a Jew left a sally port open. We don’t want to know that the Byzantine empire had become a shadow of its former self. We are like people who can’t stand the sight of their own reflections. Conspiracy theories are the cloak we hang between ourselves and the mirror. It is so easy to blame everyone else.

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