The MYTH, The LEGEND and the Greek Party of SYRIZA

The MYTH, The LEGEND and the Greek Party of SYRIZA

    When you open a dictionary trying to find the definition for the word Myth, the first scientifically reasoned explanation you are provided with, is the Greek origin of the word in terms of its etymology. Myth comes from the Ancient Greek word  "my- thos" which represents and defines anything that can be delivered through the mouth. 

    So, a myth is a kind of speech, a kind of narrative that expresses the mysterious inner thoughts of someone. Then Mythology was born as the science that studies the total of myths that have been generated within time from the human need to rationalize and explain the natural phenomena and any seemingly inexplicable aspects of life. 

   The main difference between a Myth and a Legend is that the Legend which is usually the myth existing about a specific figure or person, is based on a greater extent upon true historical facts compared to a myth that is born by the need to deal with supernatural and reach the answer to the everlasting question of life's mystery. Whee do we come from? What are we made of? And where are we supposed to be heading at? What is that which gives life to life itself?

    Humans have always been attracted to myths and legends. The mythological treasure of each nation has turned to each culture's source of development. Like Joseph Campbell, a mythology lover and worldwide acknowledged teacher has said "Mythology is not a lie. Mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical.  It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth - penultimate because the ultimate cannot put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told. " Joseph Campbell

   Inspired by this attributed trait of Mythology on behalf of John Campbell, I have started wondering about the extent to which nowadays people are facing an unabridged gap between what can be told and what can be known but not told. Are words nowadays short of expressing what can be known or thought? Are there any truths that words cannot express? And if there are, then who comes to open the gate for them so that they can find their way out? 

  Maybe a kind of Modern Mythology then. Maybe a new kind of Mythology is born out of nowadays' supernatural or abnormal or metaphysical paradoxes that people are asked to face on an everyday basis. Because how else can people explain the paradox of not balanced development and progress all over the world? How can the non existing equality in terms of material wealth and progress among the members of a group can be explained? 

  Of course there is always space for mistakes and fatal errors. Fatal errors committed on behalf of countries, of groups, of politicians may be the sufficient explanation and reasoning of such a paradox. But then again people wake up and are asked to live with the burden of a committed fatal mistake before them and without them, or in the worst case with their silent acceptance.

   So, the Myth of the Change was born. The Myth of Syriza, the party winner of the recent Greek elections. It seems that Greeks have formed their modern myth. There is something that cannot be told. Because the established rules, the pre-defined and accepted beforehand agreements and regulations are forbidding the thought of getting out of the dead -end of a dead or semi - dead, bleeding Greek economy to be expressed in clear and loud voice as a wish. 

And just like that the Legend was built. The Legend and the Myth of the rebirth of the bleeding Greek Economy. Syriza won the elections and took people's untold but deeply known truths in its hands. But there is no modern Heracles, there is no Modern Odysseus or Zeus who can cast his thunders and eliminate any monsters like Ancient Titanes who wished to take over authority at any cost. There is no  woman like Minoas' daughter Ariadne to offer the Greeks the ball of thread out of the labyrinth of their self-bleeding. There is only a demand for cooperation and assurance that all Modern Ariadne daughters, all those who have devoted their lives in studying economy and its mysteries, strengths and weaknesses becoming Economists,  will find the ball of thread without leaving anyone in any labyrinth of darkness.