{"id":154,"date":"2026-05-13T18:00:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T15:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/?p=154"},"modified":"2026-05-16T16:37:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T13:37:37","slug":"the-tyranny-of-victimhood-and-the-lefts-mediocrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/the-tyranny-of-victimhood-and-the-lefts-mediocrity\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tyranny of Victimhood and the Left\u2019s Mediocrity"},"content":{"rendered":"

In today\u2019s Greece, we are witnessing a peculiar moral and social inversion: \u201ctrauma,\u201d \u201cinjustice,\u201d \u201cpersonal tragedy,\u201d and \u201cvulnerability\u201d have been elevated to powerful criteria of social and moral superiority and are even regarded as significant political capital (\u201c\u2026they were watching me\u201d). The status of being defeated, excluded, \u201cinvisible,\u201d a minority, or self-proclaimed \u201coppressed\u201d automatically and incomprehensibly grants one justice, legitimacy, and immunity that transcend rules, logic, and criticism (\u201c\u2026I take the oath I want because I am a humanitarian,\u201d \u201c\u2026quotas are mandatory for members of vulnerable groups,\u201d \u201c\u2026if you are not inclusive, you lack empathy and are a misanthrope\u201d).<\/strong><\/p>\n

From illegally displayed Palestinian flags on public buildings, political banners on the Acropolis, to occupations and vandalism of university, public, and private buildings, the squandering of public resources on various \u201cvulnerable\u201d groups, and the justification of delinquent\/criminal behavior in the name of resistance to social and class injustice, rationality and the application of proper law have given way. Furthermore, the crudeness and \u201cintervention\u201d of every troublemaker has unofficially been elevated to fertile and primary expressions of political action.<\/p>\n

And as we support and subsidize, as a society and state, those who consider themselves pitiful victims, inevitably we identify with the latter and in practice oppose the former. On what logic do we recognize even the last-place finisher in an Olympic final as the \u201ceighth Olympic medalist\u201d? Since when have we ceased to embrace Homer\u2019s exhortation \u201calways strive for excellence\u201d and judged participation as equivalent to success?<\/p>\n

The voluntary or even imposed retreat from the obvious definition of concepts based on established social practice has led to the relativization of everything: the definition of gender, the precision of language and described concepts, the extent and imposition of penalties, hierarchical relationships in professional environments and associated professional rights, scientific conclusions, the value of institutions, democratic principles, university rankings, the notion of citizenship and national identity, the single-dimensional use of places of worship, the use of public spaces and businesses, and so forth\u2014all of which have suffered appalling distortion. All this to avoid upsetting the few, the unreasonable, those offended by the truth of nature and the obvious rationality of statistics.<\/p>\n

Led by the ideological Left obsessed with pseudonymous struggles and so-called humanitarianism, and the culpable tolerance of politically correct individualistic liberalism, Greek society seems no longer to have any dilemma regarding its agenda. It defines its identity not through creation but through self-victimization, vague \u201cresistance\u201d\u2014even when the opponent is the very concept of progress, rule of law, and excellence. In other words, it has normalized misery. Today, being a \u201cwinner,\u201d \u201cstrong,\u201d \u201cresponsible,\u201d or \u201cpioneer\u201d is considered almost suspicious. If a group or a people survive and excel, they are a priori considered \u201cperpetrators\u201d and deserving of ridicule. If someone excels, they are seen as bearing stigma, users of privilege rather than merit. A society that fears to praise the true Fighter, the Devout, the Law-abiding, the Honest, the Consistent, the Winner, the Excellent\u2014and demeans them so that the arbitrary individual, provided they are a victim by leftist criteria, can feel comfortable\u2014is a society that has given up on its future.<\/p>\n

Solidarity with the weak is a clear sign of Civilization, but unconditional identification with every kind of shirker or failure\u2014who self-identifies as vulnerable\u2014is a clear sign of decline.<\/p>\n

That is why the real revolution today is seriousness and consistency. Otherwise, Greece will remain trapped in disgrace, facing the future with the leftist fist raised against a fictional injustice.<\/p>\n\n

* For this reason, we also look forward to and encourage a Greece different from the one of misery. One in which today\u2019s 15-year-old Viktor Giannikopoulos and all worthy children of his generation can thrive and offer their best to themselves and their Homeland.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Contemporary Greece risks stagnation by valorizing victimhood over merit, undermining law, progress, and excellence, as societal praise shifts from achievement to grievance and identity politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[100,4024,102,153,103,104,152,101],"nfg_topic":[134],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-greece","tag-greece-conservative-parties","tag-left-wing-politics","tag-mediocracy","tag-olympics","tag-social-justice","tag-theodoros-giannakopoulos","tag-viktor-giannikopoulos","nfg_topic-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"nfg_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nfg_topic?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}