The very sensitive issue of the contamination of the environment of Kythera with all kinds of garbage is addressed by the newspaper «Kythiraika» in the January issue.
The article focuses on the two main axes of responsibility that govern the people who live and make a living in the place. On the one hand, we have the collective axis, centred on the municipality and its collective bodies, and on the other hand, the citizen as an autonomous entity.
In both cases, the author «attributes» political costs to the choice of inaction. On the one hand, the City, which activates its reflexes, usually belatedly, simply for a «surface sweep». In-depth cuts are absent, with the environmental issue kept low on the agenda of the city councils, perhaps because «cut trees and thrown rubble are the work of people who vote», as the writer puts it.
However, political costs are also discernible in individual awareness, or more accurately in the lack of empathy on the part of all of us, as citizens and citizens. Here, the political cost is interpreted as a «condition of silence» for a «crime», which, we commit, either primarily or a second (or umpteenth) time by choosing not to report it, for «fear of the Jews». A condition, necessary for survival as understood by the «good housekeeper's handbook», who, has simply learned to bury the garbage under the rug. As long as it (the carpet) excludes his backyard from the general mess.
