“Blood On The Tracks” as Eastern Orthodox Easter arrives

“In the extremity , the plague touched us all. It was not governmental to the Oran of Camus. No, it turned up again successful America…..”

– Pete Hamill, New York, 1974

Millions astir the world are celebrating the accomplishment of Eastern Orthodox Easter astatine this contiguous perilous infinitesimal successful the world’s history.

Jews slaughtered similar dogs connected October 7, 2023, Gazan women and children, met successful response, with an earthquake of retributive violence straight retired of Ezekiel.

Nobody wants this.

Any of this.

The languages that person bonded civilizations for aeons, a millennia, are uprooted and emasculated, distended.

Genders are redefined and refashioned, the honourable beingness of higher learning , of Plato’s Symposium’, is deflected for the howl of ritualistic street protest, spittle connected the lips of those who question to upend hard fought gains.

Politicians wreck havoc, gorge their pockets, their entranceway to “public life” a solemnisation of intended , laudatory noble and bully works, their often overextended departure a testament to the gorged, ne'er – satiated swine of Orwell’s “Animal Farm”.

The almighty are unaccountable, the “Crime And Punishment” of Dosteievski, a partially obstructed mirror, akin to the obstructed visage successful the cave of Plato’s “Republic”.

Young women are trafficked, the vassals and vessels, the playthings of the elite, our daughters and sisters are butchered successful our hospitals of “esteem”, recompense and judicial effect deflected and avoided by the unlimited and unfettered phalanx of those “sworn ” to uphold “the law”.

In a world where 1 tin cod two newspapers each morning, from the aforesaid tram stop, and upon a moment’s reflection and rumination, question his oregon her centre of gravity, so question whether some actors of the 4th property inhabit the aforesaid universe, 1 tin either succumb to the instinct to ” tally done the jungle”, oregon to insist, successful his oregon her soul, that the backstage and nationalist intent is ever served by the determination to bash do better, to purpose higher and higher.

To question salve and aforesaid respect successful the dual biblical and existentialist telephone to arms of “kicking against the pricks”.

This Eastern Orthodox Easter, from New York to Istanbul to Cape Town to Sydney, we bow down to the almighty Nazarene and treasure, retrieve and bespeak connected the victory that Jesus won connected this “Sunday, bloody Sunday”

And we question comfortableness successful the words of Winston Spencer Churchill, to “never springiness in, ne'er despair, and ne'er surrender”.

*Theo Giantsos is simply a freelance writer with a Bachelor of Economics astatine Monash University. Former Contributor to Neos Kosmos 2006 to 2009. Mediation advocator 1997 to 2009