Prometheia and the discreditation of Hellenismos

July 2017

Few days ago some people in Greece celebrated the so-called Promitheia on mount
Olympus. Now greek news agencies try to link Hellenismos with this new age festival. So
lets get things straight: Hellenismos has nothing to do with the so-called Promitheia or
other new age or para-christian festivals celebrated by New agers, Nationalists and UFO-
cultists in Greece. Hellenismos is not plastic laurel wreaths, kitsch chitons or white
bedsheets, fakelore and reenactment. If anything, contemporary Hellenismos is the result
of a serious attempt to revitalize indigenous Hellenic tradition as a way of functioning in
everyday life on both the personal and collective levels.

But the ridiculization of indigenous traditions is not only a hellenic problem. There are
many examples that show that this is a phenomenon that takes different forms across the
globe. To be honest, we are not overly concerned about the activities of the spiritual
branches of the current cultural imperialism. For these are the dog days of a collapsing
world system.