Who can truly believe you when you say something and who can help you in your need? What sane person could ever become a member of your company? Your followers when they are young are weak in body and when they somehow get old they are stupid in mind, because in their youth they feed without toil, fill up with fat and spend a difficult old age, becoming dry bodies full of shame for what they did in their youth and they saved the unpleasant things for their old age. I, on the other hand, associate with gods and good men and no work, divine or human, can be done without me. Moreover, I have from both gods and men, from those whom it is right for me to have the greatest honor. I am a dear associate of craftsmen, a faithful guardian of householders, a loving attendant on slaves, a good helper in the works of peace, a most secure ally in war, and an excellent bond of friendship. My friends enjoy food and drink freely and undisturbed, because they wait until their appetite touches them, and they also sleep more pleasantly than those who do not tire and do not suffer when they leave sleep, nor neglect what is necessary for its sake. The young rejoice in the praise of the elders, the elders rejoice because the young honor them and because they also retain the sweet memory of their old deeds and are pleased with their present actions because they perform them correctly. Because of me they are beloved by the gods, beloved by their friends, valuable to their homelands. And when the end of life prescribed by fate arrives, they are not thrown into the grave, forgotten without honors, but live in the memory of men forever, always alive and glorified. If you also achieve these things to the end with labors in your life, Hercules, child of good parents, you will be able to acquire the most blessed bliss. Hercules chose Virtue and became famous
Comments: 1/ Prodicus of Ceos from Iulida (470 BC) was a great sophist of antiquity and lived in the Apology of Socrates
2/ And at that time there was the “woke” agenda of Evil
3/ The virtuous have always been patriots and fought for their homeland in contrast to the ethno-nihilists, who refused to make a sacrifice for the sake of the whole
4/ In all eras, usurers, unionists, “party dogs”, low-wage workers, etc., have enriched themselves or lived at the expense of others, who with their sweat acquire them,
5/ Today we feed and subsidize thousands of illegal immigrants, at the expense of taxpayers, while it is necessary to pay those who do not work or we expel
. 6/ In our schools instead of teaching Virtue they teach Evil . This is the cause of the collapse of society. They consider our ancient civilization nationalistic because it is naturalistic and opposed to the present iconoclastic.
7/ Evil today has displaced Virtue and that is why our country is haunted by a flood of scandals, but the West has also fallen into decay and decline.
8/ With precision and accuracy, Prodikos wrote the defects of Evil that haunt Western societies. The reason is easy profit and pleasures that have been reduced to a supreme ideal and are sought without work, sweat by any means (even with crime, theft, fraud, embezzlement, robbery, etc.). Evil starts from the head, permeates Governments, parties, Justice, Police, Church and the Media and sucks the blood of the people who have no means to resist (3/10/25)
*Amphiktyon Major General (retd) Konstantinos Konstantinidis
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