The roots of Europe and Trump’s choice

This was my first time in Athens. My friend Georgius Prusalis, who arranged  our first exhibition beyond the Iron Curtain, was taking us sightseeing around the city with my teacher Lyubo Prahov. There was the exhibition, it was evaluated as the best sculpture exhibition for the last decade, which made me experience a culture shock. I knew it wel, that I inhabit a social and cultural ghetto of Europe and I wanted to exchange ideas in the free (according to  my views at the time) world. To be the best, meant to bear a basic error. We were wrestling with the services for seven years (for an exhibition as it seems to me now) and ...what a shock! They apologized to us for TV reports in prime time news would be overshadowed by the arrival of the foreign minister of England. Melina Mercouri, Minister of Culture at the time, requested to buy four works of mine from the exhibition and I experienced front collision with my ideas for normal andfor civilization. I had in my pocket the invitation to the Salzburg Academy and Künstlerhaus, I had the recommendations and support of the great Karl Prantl, who promoted me as a star coming from Eastern Europe and I had to decide – to tear the rope and launch into space or go home in the sheep-pen, cradled by the services, at that level I had broken through after seven years of adventure ... I take off and leave in Bulgaria my family,  my friends .... you know. Much later I realized that your true friends are those who stand beside you because you share common values, not those with which you were born.

A spring morning, we pant while climbing up the stairs to the Parthenon. The staircase climbs a hill on the first landing, turns right and rushes to the cherished architectural image familiar to us from the primers and the Renaissance gables. The landing abuts a large marble rock where thousands of years ago steps were carved, time-worn already into a polished round furrow by the footsteps of those who had climbed the rock to something more important than the parade towering temple. We followed the same Road and not the official one. We climbed the furrow and found ourselves on the leveled and also polished by walking, more than two acres of marble rock overhanging a large plain.

- That is Agora - said George. And below is the market place.

- And why so many people have climbed hither, and have polished the rock with their steps?

- The ones who climbed here were those who wanted to share ideas and to argue with opponents, and below market visitors were crowding to listen.

Shakespeare’s Theatre was situated at the market square as well.

I was speechless. It was from here they had insights, have disclosed and spread visions and misbeliefs, we still follow. So the foundation consists in sharing of views, the foundation having formed functions and aspirations that we know through visualizations of our material environment. The second, but inseparable prerequisite in the process that formed our civilization is that it happened at the place of exchange of  already materialized values – the city market. Here creators of ideas and goods congregated to evaluate them and to exchange.

Soros teacher, in his speech in front of the Deutsche Bank, tells how a wealthy Athenian of the time, had the idea to record the speeches of philosophers coming from all over world and organized the scriptorium (the first publisher of manually copied books). Copies were sold and thus thesis and ideas described in the books were distributed. Collectors of copies appeared and created libraries. (Centuries later my beloved Montaigne says with pride he possesses over 50 books, but that he actually needs only 12. And he enlists them.) So, the practice money to be markers for the current exchange cost of values ​​and knowledge arises at the Agora.

The functional linking of E-Bay and Pay Pall follows the same pattern.

This is Europe - free exchange of freely created and freely distributed and shared values.

At the end of World War II (in which our grandfathers the weapon in hand were trying to impose on the rest of the world their views on the purpose and meaning of life) as a result of the victory of the Anglo-Saxon model two global structures were formed: manufacturers and bankers. In 1973 financiers taking advantage from the shock in oil markets impaired the business of manufacturers, bought up entrepreneurs’ marks and created the global village, where more and more elaborate from financial engineering fictions are sold. They brought up political representation whose professional administrators redistributed assets of the middle class and of the entrepreneurs on inert but politicised for the purpose crowds. The effect for the US is that the state administration now controls almost 50% of GDP, while at the time of the rising Hippie culture - in 1964, the State Administration distributed only 17%.

These practices, as we know, start with the idea to take from those who might and to give to those who do not. Practices to reallocate assets recurrently and during controlled crisis are not Bulgarian trade mark.

Trump however spoiled their business. He got his fingers burnt with his investments coinciding with the onset of the global political (fancy called banking crisis) and now has to make up for it. His business partner in property sales Kiosaki elucidated, that the true owner of his assets (through policies and regulations) is actually the government – not he. Well, that was a good one. Now it is the entrepreneurs’ turn. That is what Trump’s choice suggests me.

Who knows? We are also part of the choice. For us he is the right answer to the question: what do we want, you and I - European Germany and / or Russia or German Europe and / or Russia.

My choice is very simple. here it is