…Why divide and conquer (dishonourable Englishmen) has become our ultimate national sport and we manage to turn every serious matter into a national debate, without even knowing exactly what the question is. If you are not of one side or the other you cannot live in this place. You have to pick a side. With Makarios or not? With the Police or with the protesters? Just waiting to see if the research leads somewhere and then expressing your conclusions does not play as a script!
…Why to find the truth in a case you don’t only need the Police. FBI and Europol must come down here, you want five analyses, three experts, a panelist and two referees who have survived three derbies between APOEL and Omonia.
…Why our President turned the state and institutions into an… outsourcing service. That is, if tomorrow Proundzos loses a screwdriver, he will not ask the waves (if you caught it, check the pressure), but Christodoulidis will download the CIA to him to search the alleys of old Nicosia, while he will find it contaminated because he passed through the occupied territories and will not find a way to get along.
…Why public opinion learns much, day by day and piecemeal, but remains at the end with the feeling that it is always missing that piece which would make the picture bind. How do we deal with the Cyprus problem when we go to solve it and stay in the middle? Kind of like that. To keep the mystery!
…Why you think you’re playing in the “Land of Olives” and you’re watching a serial that never ends. Let the headlines change, let the investigations always continue and why do you turn on the news every morning not for information, but to see if a new episode has come out in the strongest Cypriot thriller. One day you conclude that everything is fake, the next day you see about hospitalizations and strange reports and everything is confused.
…Why the phrase “we are at an advanced stage of investigations” in Cyprus usually means that now the real drama begins and that the Police is between investigation and aphasia.
…Why even when everyone agrees that the truth must be seen, no one seems in a hurry to meet it before making sure the ground is firm and the words properly placed.
…because if you are not… according to the Cypriot mesodogin, you cannot move forward. Either you’re called the Police and you break into a lawyer’s house in the strangest way, or you’re called an investigator and you post pictures that the next day your internet Sherlock Holmes find fake.
…Why in Cyprus you don’t need evidence to draw a conclusion, you need WiFi and a view. The details are for later, if there is time left.
…Why as a society we turn curiosity into political posturing, gossip into analysis, and sensation into certainty, and then wonder how we have so much noise and so little understanding of what’s really going on.
…Why as long as you continue to put the wedding delights on the refrigerator door, the more you will think that there are black and old people everywhere, without knowing which ones are black and which ones are old.
And finally, there really is nothing like Cyprus. Because it is the only place that can search for the truth with such intensity, discuss it with such confidence and at the end be left with such a question.