“Satire is a manifestation of… covert hostility and powerlessness”! (Tasty Macedonian Greek… salad)

UPDATE: Macedonia was in the past regarded by its own inhabitants as a wide geographic region, inhabited by many ethnic groups. In the middle of the 19th Century, the Slavs of Macedonia thought of themselves as “Macedonian Bulgarians“. This is well known, of course: The “Macedonian” ethnic identity of their modern descendants did not exist at the time.This fact is evident e.g. in the front cover of a 19th century book, “Folk songs of the Macedonian Bulgars” by Stefan Verkovic (1860)

“Folk songs of the Macedonian Bulgars” (Wikimedia)

However, many Greeks and (most) Slavs of today’s (wider) Macedonia are unwilling to accept anyone else being “Macedonian”, than themselves. They both seem to forget that Madeconia has been (for a very long time) a geographic region, rather than an ethnic identity, or a nationality, or an ancient State. E.g.

Mrs. Olga G. Yeritsidou is a Greek psychologist (and a blogger) who declared (in response to rather moderate views I had expressed, in blog-conversation with her ) that… “in Psychology, satire is a manifestation of covert hostility and impotence (or powerlessness)”.

(in Greek, “η σάτιρα… στην ψυχολογία υποδεικνύει κεκαλυμμένη επιθετικότητα και ανημποριά από το άτομο που την εξαπολύει.”)

Well, an ENGLISH post follows, as a critique of the above quote (which is also the post-title in Greek):

Mrs. Yeretsidou is an extremely militant advocate of the well known “Macedonia is (only) Greek” hard-line doctrine, which is advocated today only by the Extreme Right in Greek poltiics, even though she does not appear to have any right-wing views (in any other issue than Macedonia).

In one of her blogs she lashes out against any sort of compromise with Slavic Macedonians. She believes firmly that only Greek Macedonians have the right (and… copyright) of being “Macedonian”.

In a recent on-line conversation with her, she accused me of being evasive, but she never answered some important questions, such as “WHICH country ever succeeded to dictate the name of another sovereign country?” (in response to her own claim that such cases did exist in History).

She also remarked that “there is no point to talk anymore” (with me) since she thinks I was evasive in (that) conversation; not to mention the… psycho-pathological nature of… satire in general (an undisputed fact in Clinical Psychology, according to her, which she also blamed chastised me for… not acknowledging). (wow…)

Well, well, well…

• Personally, I already explained that I am NOT a nationalist: Personally, I don’t