Konstantinos Konstantinidis – Amphiktyon
I. The Silent Decision
No savior will come.
No messiah with flags and drumbeats,
no grand words and empty promises.
The exit begins quietly, within yourself.
Hold Kapodistrias in your heart as an ideal.
It begins the moment the citizen decides:
not to shout,
not to hate,
not to applaud the lie,
not to accept blood as truth,
and never to hide the truth—however bitter it may be.
To judge calmly, with cold reason,
without dogma, without party, without reward.
II. The Citizen versus the Mob
The mob demands a camp; it breeds fear and suffering.
The citizen seeks truth and naked words.
The mob shouts, burns, and destroys.
The citizen thinks, examines, and acts—on election day.
The pollster influences him little in his judgment.
From the parrots of the media
he learns half-truths
and often the whole lie.
Finding the truth is his own responsibility.
That is why they fear the citizen:
because he does not fit
into the sack like the others.
III. Responsibility
Responsibility is not neutrality.
It is judgment—without party identity.
To say “no” to your own side when it errs.
Not to baptize interest as patriotism.
Not to offer alibis to traitors with fine words.
Not to call patriotism “fascism.”
IV. The Small Resistance
Resistance is not only rupture.
It is refusal, contempt—and judgment.
Do not share the lie.
Do not laugh at slander.
Do not applaud the submissive.
Small acts—great breakwaters.
Even on the internet, make your marks:
silent exposure has weight.
V. The Homeland Again
The homeland does not ask for cries.
It asks for shoulders.
It is not a slogan; it is a burden.
And it is borne only by free citizens,
not by followers.
It demands reasoned courage.
VI. Exit
The exit is not escape.
It is return.
Unity of Greeks wherever they are.
In unity there is strength, as of old.
Party, dogma, and faction truly behead you.
Bound like the Meander, Hellenism moves forward;
loosened, it is lost in Tartarus.
Return to reason.
To memory.
To judgment.
To shared responsibility.
With courage, prudence, and temperance.
The Greek does not compromise without magnanimity.
Let Greece shine like the Sun and give light.
Hellenism, hand in hand like the Meander, does not break.
With mind—and again with deeds—
to trample kleptocracy.
Self-knowledge, said Socrates.
This text
• does not preach,
• does not flatter,
• places the citizen face to face with himself.
Thus it closes rightly:
not with cheap hope,
but with heavy responsibility.
All children, in the circle-dance of Hellenism.
9 February 2026
Amphiktyon – Lieutenant General (ret.) Konstantinos Konstantinidis
Author, Member of the Society of Greek Writers
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