9 Μαΐου, 2024 by nickkouzos

Excerpts from recent Greek History lessons, from eyewitnesses.

The history of the two branches of the Kouzos family, as presented on the website of Nikos Kouzos, http://www.nickkouzos.com, is a typical story of Greek refugees of Asia Minor, as experienced by Hellenism, after the Balkan wars of 1912-13, and the Asia Minor disaster in 1922.

Despite the fact that I call it ‘typical’, the family story includes historical elements that were not limited simply, to atrocities of the war, but extend to historical events that touch upon, well-known events that expose some of the tactics followed, both, by the Ottoman Empire, and the newly established regime of modern Turkey, at the expense of the Greek minorities.

The site includes description of such actions taken by Greeks of Asia Minor to preserve their national identity, and physical survival.

That is, it highlights how the Greeks created the real middle class of Turkey, within an Ottoman regime, how Hellenism of Asia Minor communicated with Aegean islands and the rest of Greek mainland, and the rest of Hellenism of diaspora, how the Greek community generated wealth.

Greeks managed to do that providing high-level services to the Turkish state, despite the Ottoman Empire’s attempt to marginalize most non-Muslim minorities, as second-class citizens, while the Ottomans were occupied gathering all their forces to expand with conquests throughout central Europe, the Balkans, and Africa.

The site also highlights the fact that Hellenism functioned as a refuge for the Greek revolutionaries from the Peloponnese and the rest of Greek mainland, when Turkey tried to suppress the revolution of 1821, with its alliance with Egypt.

Many facts are revealed about the way the Turks extorted Greeks to collect, special taxes for the Sultan, but also later, how the Young Turks tried to gain prestige and recognition from the West, as a reformed civilized European country.

Stories are also given, by eyewitness, about the Turkish Barbarity towards Hellenism, even before the invasion of the Greek army that took place during1919.

The burning and destruction of villages, cities and towns with a 100% Greek population, started during 1915, and even before that.

Essentially, the Young Turks applied to the Greek populations a similar genocide as they did to the Armenians, which proves that the Greek military action was, to a large extent, a justified reaction, regardless of the strategic error of extending the attack deep into the region.

Finally, among other things, the story covers the excellent behavior of the Greek army and specifically the actions of the ‘independent division’ of the Greek army, under General Theotokis, who, after the intervention of the priest of Kirkagats, cousin of the Chief Marshal Theodoros Kolokotronis, saved the population of the entire city from massacre.

The entire population that followed the independent division consisted of 5,000 Greeks and 2,000 Armenians.

General Theotokis demanded and convinced 15,000 Turks, inhabitants of Kirkagats to spend all night baking bread for the Greek army which was retreating to the port of Dikeli.

The history of the two branches of the Kouzos family, as presented on the website of Nikos Kouzos, http://www.nickkouzos.com, is a typical story of Greek refugees of Asia Minor, as experienced by Hellenism, after the Balkan wars of 1912-13, and the Asia Minor disaster in 1922.

Despite the fact that I call it ‘typical’, the family story includes historical elements that were not limited simply, to atrocities of the war, but extend to historical events that touch upon, well-known events that expose some of the tactics followed, both, by the Ottoman Empire, and the newly established regime of modern Turkey, at the expense of the Greek minorities.

The site includes description of such actions taken by Greeks of Asia Minor to preserve their national identity, and physical survival.

That is, it highlights how the Greeks created the real middle class of Turkey, within an Ottoman regime, how Hellenism of Asia Minor communicated with Aegean islands and the rest of Greek mainland, and the rest of Hellenism of diaspora, how the Greek community generated wealth.

Greeks managed to do that providing high-level services to the Turkish state, despite the Ottoman Empire’s attempt to marginalize most non-Muslim minorities, as second-class citizens, while the Ottomans were occupied gathering all their forces to expand with conquests throughout central Europe, the Balkans, and Africa.

The site also highlights the fact that Hellenism functioned as a refuge for the Greek revolutionaries from the Peloponnese and the rest of Greek mainland, when Turkey tried to suppress the revolution of 1821, with its alliance with Egypt.

Many facts are revealed about the way the Turks extorted Greeks to collect, special taxes for the Sultan, but also later, how the Young Turks tried to gain prestige and recognition from the West, as a reformed civilized European country.

Stories are also given, by eyewitness, about the Turkish Barbarity towards Hellenism, even before the invasion of the Greek army that took place during1919.

The burning and destruction of villages, cities and towns with a 100% Greek population, started during 1915, and even before that.

Essentially, the Young Turks applied to the Greek populations a similar genocide as they did to the Armenians, which proves that the Greek military action was, to a large extent, a justified reaction, regardless of the strategic error of extending the attack deep into the region.

Finally, among other things, the story covers the excellent behavior of the Greek army and specifically the actions of the ‘independent division’ of the Greek army, under General Theotokis, who, after the intervention of the priest of Kirkagats, cousin of the Chief Marshal Theodoros Kolokotronis, saved the population of the entire city from massacre.

The entire population that followed the independent division consisted of 5,000 Greeks and 2,000 Armenians.

General Theotokis demanded and convinced 15,000 Turks, inhabitants of Kirkagats to spend all night baking bread for the Greek army which was retreating to the port of Dikeli.

6 Μαΐου, 20247 Μαΐου, 2024 by nickkouzos

Ethnic traditions and religions in a multicultural society

In these holy days of the Greek Orthodox Easter, I feel the need to express myself more broadly about the role of national traditions and religion in these multicultural societies that are currently evolving in the form of an avalanche.

The development of a multicultural environment is created due to many factors, the factor of facilitating communication among people and different societies, due to mixing of ethnicities and believers from different religious doctrines that historically influenced entire nations and political systems culturally, due to population movements that are taking place following dramatic changes in environmental conditions, etc.

Personally, I am fascinated by the religious traditions of my country, but, at the same time I study the traditions of other peoples and their religions, respecting the faith of each individual and group of people, as long as, they also respect the sacred right of faith of each one, without exploitation of religion for political, social or national reasons, to serve other interests.

Unfortunately, history has taught us that religious and national fanaticism has been the cause of many wars, social and national conflicts, created, due to different doctrines, within same religions themselves, as well as, among different religions.

Religions, as different as they may be, satisfied the inner needs of humanity to approach the Divine and to give an explanation to the unknown and the inexplicable.

At the same time they inspired hope and security to the faithful.

Religions adopted rules, depending on the cultural level of the societies, and in general, they contributed to spread good and ethical behaviour for the survival of the societies, but at the same time, religion also became an instrument of respective secular powers.

It is extremely difficult, for a believer, to acknowledge the exploitation the individual is subjected to, and be use as a tool, by secular powers, for their interest, which, sometimes, act consciously or not.

That is why non-interference of religion in secular matters, political, national, legal, and cultural, must be an unbreakable rule to be followed, because religion may easily become a tool of misinformation and exploitation of masses.

There are many examples, from ancient times, even until today, that may convince us of such a reality.

Examples may include, the conflicts between Hindus and Muslims, Jews and Christians, Jews and Muslims, Muslims among themselves, Christians among themselves, such as Protestants and Catholics, Gentiles (believers of the ancient twelve gods) with Christian ‘iconoclasts’ of the Byzantine era, the Catholic Papacy with the Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople etc. etc.

There is no end to these conflicts that have sprung up in the course of human history.

To this day, we are pursued by the curse of wars between Israel and Muslim Arabs.

Such conflicts started from religious differences, which were transformed to Ethnic differences.

Hellenism, is still pursued by the problem of Cyprus, and the endless Greek-Turkish conflicts, the root of which, mainly, lies in the expansionist theories preached by Islam.

Religious and Nationalist fanaticism often mix, leading to interdependence.

It is, of course, true that Hellenism survived, mainly, due to deep-rooted religiosity of the Greek people.

It is, therefore, natural that Orthodoxy plays a very important role in traditions but also in the exercise of secular power.

Ancient Greek culture also played a very important role in the preservation of Hellenism, given that ancient Greek culture was transferred to West, during the Renaissance period, so, renaissance, in combination with Christianity, managed to stop the ethno-religious expansion of Islam to the rest of Europe.

This resistance turned Greece into a defensive fortress of West, against the Ottoman expansion, a fact for which, today’s Turkey maintains hostility and does not forgive us.

Turkey, historically, considers Greece as part of the Ottoman Empire, due to its domination over Byzantium and the subsequent conquest of Greece. They go as far as to consider Greeks as ungrateful for the privileges given to them during the Ottoman occupation, a time that forceful islamization of Christians, commenced.

Islamization was the first phase of the expansion of Islam, which altered the population composition of Asia Minor, as well as some areas in the Balkans, of Cyprus, of Crete and the Aegean islands.

The second phase was the colonization of occupied areas , with the transfer of Muslim populations, from Asia and Albania.

This expansionist philosophy of Islam, soon turned into a Nationalist tactic that led to the exchange of populations after the failure of the Greek military campaign in Asia Minor. As a consequence, Asia Minor was fully converted from a multicultural society to a pure Turkish state maintaining only Kurdish populations which is still considered to be a threat to the Turkish nation.

But religious fanaticism was not uniquely the characteristic just of Islam alone, the same religious fanaticism prevailed between the Hindus and Muslims of India, which resulted in the partitioning of India into two states, Muslim Pakistan and the remaining Hindu India.

Another example that involves Europe, a shameful historic attitude that we, Europeans inherited from the dark ages of medieval period was anti-Semitism.

Anti-Semitism prevailed, for many centuries, in most European countries, expelling and dispersing Jewish population throughout the world.

Inevitably, Jewish groups were obliged to gather into closed groups that never integrated into local societies.

People under such conditions of marginalization cannot develop neither can be integrated by the local societies.

These groups of people act, therefore, inevitably, like a foreign body, such as a tumor or cancer.

As much as the West does not want to accept full responsibility, for this behavior, it is, unquestionably, a real fact.

This fact is also the cause for the creation of the state of Israel.

The creation of Israel was a solution to a problem that had been created centuries ago.

There is a similarity in the treatment of the Greek and Armenian Christians by the Ottomans for those Christians that were not converted to Islam.

In the same way, Hellenism of Diaspora was created, which, eventually helped in the Greek liberation struggle of 1821. Ottomans could not create an new Ethnic site for Christians out of the Ottoman Empire, so they had to exterminate all Christians by genocide or create a system of second rate citizenship for non Muslim populations.

These few examples, from the history of humanity, lead to the conclusion that the future of humanity, as it is developing today, will have to be based on multicultural societies, to avoid similar situations to evolve.

These societies should accept coexistence with diversity among the populations that make them up, and allow cultural and religious differences to develop and coexist, freely, within states.

Rejection of this reality, for nationalist or religious reasons, will become an inhibiting factor for cultural and economic development leading societies to wither.

25 Απριλίου, 2024 by nickkouzos

Management adaptation to artificial intelligence. The last lesson

It is a fact that people find it difficult to adapt to change, if changes are happening, fast, like the avalanche of developments, this generation is experiencing.

Such changes have been taking place, in multiple areas, including technological, political, social, scientific, and economic fields.

The consequences have a deep effect, on every individual, who is obliged to adapt, to revolutionary new conditions, in very short periods.

Such consequences become evident in everyday life, in many forms of activity, including management of many businesses and state administration.

Dramatic changes, mostly, inhibits insecurity to various levels of management i.e., investors, board members, senior executives. This insecurity eventually is passed down to employees and workforce of a company, or citizens of a country.

Consequently Insecurity, inevitably affects the economic growth in an economy.

No one doubts that, special qualities are needed for top management to ensure success.

Management decisions were, mostly based on knowledge, relevant expertise and previous experiences, acquired under relatively, similar and stable conditions.

In addition, sufficient Management attributes, for a successful activity, were considered to be, good foresight, determination, intelligence, and adaptability.

At the same time, assuming that resources, such as, raw materials, energy, capital, and work force, were, , available, the task of administrations was easier, mainly, due to easier predictability.

The technological evolution helped the administration to utilize the tools, and information that, increasingly, played an important role in decision-making, and implementation processes.

This, I might say, was the ‘golden age’ of harnessing human intelligence, which helped to transform production means, from traditional forms, (raw materials, labor, industrial production capability, capital, infrastructure, automation, environment, and even culture) to intellectual property rights, an additional value, gained from human innovation and creative thinking.

These, to my view, reached the limit of the evolution of humanity as we know it until recently.

I am referring to the evolution of humanity as we experienced it during all industrial revolutions, first, second, third and fourth revolutions.

The last revolution which we call it information technology revolution, introduced the social media that gave humanity the capability of unlimited mass communication and access to knowledge and information on the slip of a moment.

Knowledge and communication became a resource of infinite value, a new kind of property, available to the whole of humanity offering unlimited possibilities.

Infinite possibilities, that humanity could utilize to cover needs as they are assumed by human perception.

Such explosion of information and speed of transfer of information has reached the point humans could not absorb, or make efficient use of.

This became the turning point of human evolution. Artificial intelligence came to fill the gap and enhance human capabilities in a dramatic way.

Artificial intelligence has arrived replacing humans starting from the high levels of human expertise, i.e. starting from management.

That is, in the form of oxymoron, those who created the conditions for the creation of databases, the availability of information to the general public, the development of information transfer networks at unimaginably high speeds gave artificial intelligence the weapons to replace them.

The last step made top managers, governors of nations and enterprises look like comic-tragic figures, as cartoon characters.

Artificial intelligence enabled the construction of business models, human society models, which can be bombard with infinite information and study the results, until an optimal solution is found under any possible conditions.

This artificial intelligence can and does play the role of legislative, executive, and judicial power better than members of parliament and an independent supreme court.

No one had suspected this.

Even today rectors, universities, supreme judges, heads of governments and Chiefs of states do not suspect what has happened.

Even today scientists talk about rules and conditions that can be imposed on artificial intelligence systems, but we have already reached the level of self-acting.

We have already reached the level of artificial intelligence communication with the human brain, taking and giving commands, very soon we will see humans communicating with other humans with the intermediate use of artificial intelligence.

It is the ultimate and amazing human creation, which sets the beginning of a new evolutionary process

At this rate of development, where will we be able to reach in the next 50 years?

2 Απριλίου, 2024 by nickkouzos

DIVERSITY IN POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS BELIEFS, A DEEPER APPROACH

In the tumult of violent social changes, climate changes, wars, conquest and defense, population movements, revolutions, social and industrial, and all kinds of conflicts, political and religious beliefs, played an important role.

Sometimes because the facts created these beliefs, and sometimes because the beliefs created the facts.

From the moment human beliefs or conviction were created, it proved to be very difficult for these beliefs to change, despite the passage of centuries in the evolutionary course of humanity.

It was and is very rare for a man, possessed by a religious or political conviction, to change his convictions, and jump from one environment to another, whether violence is used or not. These beliefs also constitute his identity, which eventually end up becoming existential entities.

Man is. somehow, captive to the environment that shapes him, homeland, family, religion, cultural level, and political rnviroment, these may, as the case may be, prove to be a blessing or a curse.

Historical examples, for all cases, are too many.

In developed societies, diversity and pluralism has come to be considered normal and desirable, while in less developed societies, diversity or pluralism is considered as a danger to the status quo.

The key in dealing with the problems that arise is the way to deal with diversity, both for political and social, as well as religious diversity.

By adopting this principle, we have come to accept a multicultural society in the Western world.

Most people, in the western world believed that by accepting multicultural society and secularism, equal rights and democratic polices, we could eliminate many of the reasons that have caused, over time, social conflicts.

It is a fact, however, that with this development we overcame many of the problems of the past and contributed to the creation of a symbiotic society.

We believed that we have left behind doctrinal disputes, as well as religious rivalries, even within Christian societies.

We believed that we have left behind many of the intense political and nationalist conflicts, with the establishment of international legislation and international rules for the protection of human rights , as well as the establishment of international organizations such as UN and international juries.

However, we missed the fact that the acceptance of diversity and pluralism was achieved at the cultural and economic level only in the Western World, which had already acquired greater potential and riched a higher level of development, while the rest of the ‘developing’ world was left behind.

Such higher state of development, also created, at the same time, another diversity, which contributed to the distancing of the western developed nations from a significant part of the rest of the world community, regardless of the reasons, for which this progress has been achieved.

This progress has left an entire world behind, causing the return to situations and problems that existed hundreds or even thousands of years ago.

Nationalist, religious, and political rivalries, neo-colonial practices and methods reappeared, even more powerful and dangerous, because differences including economic level generated new opportunities for exploitation.

It has been proven that stability and balance, among nations, cannot be mentained, unless the levels of development are equalized in most societies worldwide.

Competitiveness is a legitimate advantage when the competition involves homogeneous societies, or societies that compeat under similar conditions.

Secularism and human rights are not principles adequate or capable to balance out injustice, since the ‘law of the strongest’ always prevails, which is the ‘law of the jungle’.

Man must overcome his nature, to overcome the ‘law of nature’.

Equal distribution of wealth is a precondition for achieving justice and balance among societies or nations. Unfortunately, equal distribution of wealth is not a natural process, hence a transcendence is required from man.

The colonial rivalries, which are arising, cannot be stopped, unless new rules are set, which will contribute to faster development of the third world.

Such assistance will have to be provided, in analogy, from the developed world, instead of uncontrolled exploitation of the developing third world countries.

Of course, this view is a utopian expectation.

Yet, if this cannot be enforced, in some way, perhaps, under today’s conditions, by international organizations, and first, by the UN itself. This is a minimum contribution, from such an organization that justifies its existence.

How could this be practically done?

The rules of trade and commercial transactions, which reflect, economic power, must adopt new ways that will ensure the long-term improvement of the level of development of third world societies.

As utopian as this may seem, it is also the only way to eliminate the danger of destroying humanity from competing conflicts.

It is, of course, self-evident that first the members of the G20, which are the strongest forces playing the role of today’s neo-colonialists, must agree.

Such an agreement would provide a definitive solution to the diversity problems of both political and religious prejudices that are used, by most, as tools to achieve selfish ends.

These thoughts are not far from expressing today’s reality, we know very well the competition among many powers competing to control third world countries, whether through religion, or military aid or economic agreements or other means.

An international agreement, if possible, would change the picture of the world today.

We would not, any more, observe China’s competition with America, or competitions among most powers, including Europe, and Russia, but also Turkey (a new comer), compeating in areas such as Africa, Asia, even the Balkans, South America, etc.

These powers, without exception, would not undermine the road to development by taking parts in internal conflicts.

But even beyond that, they would also help to find solutions for the problems of climate change with very well-known aversive effects, such as illegal emigration or massive movement of populations to the north, infiltration of terorist groups, etc.

The awareness of the great problem of humanity, which is the difference in the level of development, is today the most important issue that should concerns humanity.

20 Μαρτίου, 202419 Απριλίου, 2024 by nickkouzos

Introduction to the digital information database of Nick Kouzos, and instructions for easy navigation in the relevant websites

Access to information posted on the digital base can be initiated from either the BLOG https://timesforchange.wordpress.com/ or the website www.nickkouzos.com.

The posts include articles, and videos created by Nikos Kouzos or selected historical books and documents posted on the following three websites:

The introductory note that follows includes a summary of the subject contents and navigation instructions to access various articles written, videos recorded, included in three websites as follows:

1. https://nickkouzos.com

The website includes chapters, articles and videos about the history of the uprooting of the two branches of the families of the father and mother of Nikolaos Kouzou from Asia Minor, after the defeat of the Greek army during 1922

The subject expands to more general historical issues and reports on the relations and its effects from the conflict between the two peoples, which still affects them to this day.

The website I am publishing started as a personal family reference to the stories of relatives who lived the dramatic experiences of fleeing after the Asia Minor disaster, but also to the conditions experienced by the Hellenism of Asia Minor before the intervention of the Greek army in Asia Minor.

This work was done in memory of my parents and other relatives and ancestors, but it evolved into a text of more general historical reference and recording of the historical events of a period that marked Greece as well as Turkey, two neighboring countries that, have not managed to resolve their differences up today.

The analysis of historical events is presented in different sections that consist of separate chapters, by topic, with a complete historical review, in chronological order of historical events with references to documentation from reliable sources cited so as to create a text with increased credibility.

The fact that the website is written in Greek as well as in English also covers Greeks abroad and especially the generations who are slowly losing contact with the Greek language but must not lose their national consciousness and memory in any way. This need has become even more important due to the more recent developments that Turkey has adopted revisionary policies against Greece that is affecting Europe and USA.

I hope this website will help the close and distant relatives and their descendants, especially the younger generations, who spread to the ends of the whole world, to find this website. as a point of reference to their roots.

You can see chapters and select below

2. https://wordpress.com/posts/timesforchange.wordpress.com

The BLOG includes 450 articles that create a chronological set of events of the modern political history of an important part of the post-political history of Greece that was affected by the developments of the world situation. \

In addition to the articles, this BLOG also includes his own poems through which the author’s emotional sensitivities are expressed over time. Also included are excerpts from selected historical books related to the Asia Minor disaster, as well as publications from that era that are real historical relics.

The articles also analyze issues that play an important role in the evolutionary path of both Greece and the international community.

There are always references to Greek-Turkish relations in the events, which are an important factor in the evolution of Greece, Cyprus and Hellenism in general.

All the articles are classified by thematic category chosen by the reader.

The same article may appear multiple times, since it belongs to multiple thematic categories, but it can also be recalled from the single basic list found on the website

THEMATIC CATEGORIES

1. Introductory page for Nick Kouzos websites https://timesforchange.wordpress.com/category/introductory-page-on-nick-kouzos-sites/

2. HISTORY https://timesforchange.wordpress.com/category/history/

3. Articles written in English https://timesforchange.wordpress.com/category/articles-in-english/

4. Books related to Asia Minor https://timesforchange.wordpress.com/category/books-related-to-asia-minor/

5. ANCESTRY https://timesforchange.wordpress.com/category/history/ancestry/

6. MUSIC https://wordpress.com/post/timesforchange.wordpress.com/6605

7. Videos from Holiday traveling https://timesforchange.wordpress.com/category/videos/holliday-travels/

8. Articles written the period that ΣΥΡΙΖΑ was in government https://timesforchange.wordpress.com/category/%ce%b5%cf%80%ce%b9%ce%ba%ce%b1%ce%b9%cf%81%cf%8c%cf%84%ce%b7%cf%84%ce%b1-current-affairs/%cf%80%ce%b5%cf%81%ce%af%ce%bf%ce%b4%ce%bf%cf%82-%ce%ba%cf%85%ce%b2%ce%ad%cf%81%ce%bd%ce%b7%cf%83%ce%b7%cf%82-%cf%83%cf%85%cf%81%ce%b9%ce%b6%ce%b1/

9. Articles written when New Democracy was in Government https://timesforchange.wordpress.com/category/%ce%b5%cf%80%ce%b9%ce%ba%ce%b1%ce%b9%cf%81%cf%8c%cf%84%ce%b7%cf%84%ce%b1-current-affairs/%cf%80%ce%bf%ce%bb%ce%b9%cf%84%ce%b9%ce%ba%ce%ad%cf%82-%cf%83%ce%ba%ce%ad%cf%88%ce%b5%ce%b9%cf%82/%cf%80%ce%b5%cf%81%ce%af%ce%bf%ce%b4%ce%bf%cf%82-%ce%ba%cf%85%ce%b2%ce%ad%cf%81%ce%bd%ce%b7%cf%83%ce%b7%cf%82-%ce%bd%ce%b5%ce%b1%cf%82-%ce%b4%ce%b7%ce%bc%ce%bf%ce%ba%cf%81%ce%b1%cf%84%ce%af%ce%b1/

10. Επικαιρότητα – Current Affairs https://timesforchange.wordpress.com/category/%ce%b5%cf%80%ce%b9%ce%ba%ce%b1%ce%b9%cf%81%cf%8c%cf%84%ce%b7%cf%84%ce%b1-current-affairs/

11. Articles expressing Political thoughts – Πολιτικές Σκέψεις, https://timesforchange.wordpress.com/category/%ce%b5%cf%80%ce%b9%ce%ba%ce%b1%ce%b9%cf%81%cf%8c%cf%84%ce%b7%cf%84%ce%b1-current-affairs/%cf%80%ce%bf%ce%bb%ce%b9%cf%84%ce%b9%ce%ba%ce%ad%cf%82-%cf%83%ce%ba%ce%ad%cf%88%ce%b5%ce%b9%cf%82/

12. Israel https://wordpress.com/post/timesforchange.wordpress.com/6419

13. Macedonian issues https://wordpress.com/post/timesforchange.wordpress.com/3890

14. CRETE https://wordpress.com/post/timesforchange.wordpress.com/3905

15. CYPRUS https://wordpress.com/post/timesforchange.wordpress.com/3951

16. TURKEYhttps://timesforchange.wordpress.com/category/turkey/

17. Poetry Ποίηση https://timesforchange.wordpress.com/category/%cf%80%ce%bf%ce%b9%ce%b7%cf%83%ce%b7/

18. ΣΚΕΨΕΙΣ https://timesforchange.wordpress.com/category/%ce%b5%cf%80%ce%b9%ce%ba%ce%b1%ce%b9%cf%81%cf%8c%cf%84%ce%b7%cf%84%ce%b1-current-affairs/%cf%80%ce%bf%ce%bb%ce%b9%cf%84%ce%b9%ce%ba%ce%ad%cf%82-%cf%83%ce%ba%ce%ad%cf%88%ce%b5%ce%b9%cf%82/

19. Professional issues https://timesforchange.wordpress.com/category/proffesional/

20. Technology https://timesforchange.wordpress.com/category/technology/

21. AI articles about artificial intelligence https://timesforchange.wordpress.com/category/technology/ai-articles/

22. Κοινωνικά Social issues https://timesforchange.wordpress.com/category/%ce%b5%cf%80%ce%b9%ce%ba%ce%b1%ce%b9%cf%81%cf%8c%cf%84%ce%b7%cf%84%ce%b1-current-affairs/%ce%ba%ce%bf%ce%b9%ce%bd%cf%89%ce%bd%ce%b9%ce%ba%ce%b1-social/

23. Books related to Asia Minor https://timesforchange.wordpress.com/category/books-related-to-asia-minor/

24. Videos

25. ADA https://wordpress.com/post/timesforchange.wordpress.com/511

26. COMNET https://wordpress.com/post/timesforchange.wordpress.com/511

27. ICL Hellas Ltd https://timesforchange.wordpress.com/category/videos/ada-comnet-icl-hellas-ltd/

28. Back to roots travels on video https://timesforchange.wordpress.com/category/videos/back-to-roots-travels/

29. Family Videos https://timesforchange.wordpress.com/category/videos/family-videos/

30. Music in the family videos https://wordpress.com/post/timesforchange.wordpress.com/805

31. General Videos https://timesforchange.wordpress.com/category/videos/general-videos/

32. Holliday travels videos https://timesforchange.wordpress.com/category/videos/holliday-travels/

33. Speeches on video https://timesforchange.wordpress.com/category/videos/speaches/

34. Books related to Asia Minor https://timesforchange.wordpress.com/category/books-related-to-asia-minor/

35. Books written by George Kouzos for the schools in Asia Minor https://timesforchange.wordpress.com/category/history/ancestry/school-books-written-by-george-koozos/

Με αυτό τον τρόπο θα εμφανίζονται τα άρθρα, ή βίντεο, ή μουσική, στην κατηγορία που ανήκουν, σύμφωνα με οποιαδήποτε θέμα και ταξινόμηση επιλέγεi ο αναγνώστης.

3. dailymotion.com/timesforchange

The third website contains 130 videos that mainly record family events, but among them there are also some stories of the last survivors from the unforgettable homelands of the lost Hellenism. I don’t think that this website will be of interest to a wide portion of readers and mainly concerns family friends and relatives or researchers, who are interested in approaching through personal stories the conditions of Hellenism in Asia Minor.

NOTE: The contents, by category, chapters of the blog https://timesforchange.wordpress.com/about/, and also on the website nickkouzos.com include the entire book by Panos Meimaridis about Kirkagats and its last inhabitants, as well as an other historical book about the Peramos written by G. Sgouridis, but also other articles with broader description of more elements about the disaster faced by Hellenism, in this period, such as memoirs of the US Ambassador in Turkey and the US Consul in Smyrna George Horton.

4. Finaly there is an other site: Nick Kouzos geneology tree which includes 512 persoms, 396 photos and 70 stories. There have been many members of this tree who have been invited to make corrections or additions with additional stories, relatives, photos and dates.

You are invited to navigate to navigate and study the compleat ancestry tree that goes back to the 18th century

Το γενεαλογικό δένδρο της οικογενείας Κούζου και συζύγων στο Ancestry. Περιλαμβάνει 512 άτομα , 396 φωτογραφίες και 69 ιστορίες. Έχουν προσκληθεί πολλά άτομα για να πλοηγήσουν το δένδρο και να διορθώσουν η να προσθέσουν στοιχεία, άτομα, φωτογραφίες , ιστορίες και ημερομηνίες

https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/27736718/family/familyview

Τα πρώτα χρόνια της προσφυγιάς ήταν πολύ δύσκολα και πολλά άτομα και συγγενείς είχαν διασπαρθεί σε όλον τον κόσμο. Δεν ήταν δυνατόν να εντοπισθούν πολλά από αυτά τα άτομα.

Ειδικά θα ήθελα να βρω τρία ξαδέρφια της γιαγιάς μου που μετανάστευσαν στην Αμερική

Τα ονόματα των ξαδέρφων αυτών που μπόρεσα να μάθω από την Θεία μου Δωροθέα ήταν, ο Γιάννης, ο Γιώργος Χατζημπάσης, και ο Χατζηδιάκος.

20 Μαρτίου, 202420 Μαρτίου, 2024 by nickkouzos

A subjective view of the developments of the reality in the Greek society, over the last years, navigating through of a personal digital diary.

It is very difficult to capture the climate of an era, the history of peoples through ages, or even the personality of a person.

It is even more difficult to capture and transmit it to third parties, and indeed from the side you see it subjectively.

Since ancient times, texts, histories, or works of literature, books, novels, as well as entire plays have been written, and since the age of cinema, films have also been shot, which bring together all the arts, which is why cinematography is called the ‘seventh art’.

In the ‘post-modern’ era we live in, we don’t have time to read a whole page. We have lost the ability to concentrate.

Our young people communicate with ‘likes’ and graphs, photos, and short messages.

The ‘social media’ entered our lives and saved in digital form, texts, images, messages, videos, scientific publications, and literature, creating a huge endless chaos of information.

This chaos has become a legacy of humanity of incredible utility, if you can make use of it.

Along came artificial intelligence, the perfect tool to capitalize on this heritage.

Artificial intelligence will provide easy fodder for knowledge to be spread for generations to come.

But I’m impatient, I can’t wait for this evolution to complete its full circle.

I wanted to leave my own, albeit, insignificant, legacy to my friends, associates and relatives.

I neither wrote a book, or directed a movie, and my perceptions of this society are captured in a form of diary that no one will ever be able to read, as a single continuous document, because it consists of too many different moments, covering too many different subjects, different points of interest, opinions, and feelings.

This digital diary consists of hundreds of personal articles, videos, photographs, poems, reflecting opinions, views and events throughout time that have shaped my professional, personal, emotional, and political choices.

The topics are spread widely and cannot be of equal interest to every reader, whether close friend or relative, or associate.

I have set a big goal, and I am concerned that my attempt may emit some arrogance, so I apologize to the reader, it is not arrogance but shows awareness that our generation has a unique and very special advantage of experiencing a real cosmogenic moment of dramatic technological evolution, possibly unique to humanity, for millennia.

We were the generation that lived through the creation of atomic energy as well as the consequence of the deadly creation of the atomic bomb.

We were the generation that used everything from analog mechanical calculators to supercomputers, robots, space travel and artificial intelligence.

So, I was touched by my son when he noticed that I was writing many articles that I was publishing in what I call a digital diary, and he said to me:

‘Father, you write and after you die, I will ask the technical intelligence, what would be your opinion on various matters that arise.’

A little dark humor, but also touching.

This electronic diary can be navigated according to one’s specific interests, history, political, social, technological, family, etc.

To understand the mechanism of accessing various articles, videos, or chapters contained in this digital diary, you need to visit link. https://wordpress.com/post/timesforchange.wordpress.com/6718

The link leads to an introductory document for the digital information database of Nick Kouzos, giving instructions that enables easy navigation within the relevant websites. The chapters and articles focus on the following general areas:

1. Current situation regarding the Turkish revisionist aspirations, threatening Greek sovereign rites of Aegean islands, Crete, and Dodecanese

2. Traveling to lost homelands in Turkey.

3. Articles on current political situation in Greece and the world.

4. Current social issues evolving.

5. Technological and business issues

6. Traveling and family events

7. Poems

Access to information posted on the digital base can be initiated from either the BLOG https://timesforchange.wordpress.com/

or the website www.nickkouzos.com.

More details are given within the document, in both Greek and English.

It is worth mentioning that the reader can select the topic he wants to address by selecting either the chapter in the site or the category section within the BLOG.

Each category will show all articles allocated in the same section.

The articles allocated to more categories will appear in as many categories as needed.

20 Μαρτίου, 2024 by nickkouzos

Μία υποκειμενικη θεώρηση των εξελίξεων της Ελληνικής πραγματικότητας μέσα από την πλοήγηση ενός προσωπικού ψηφιακού ημερολογίου.

Είναι πολύ δύσκολο να συλλάβεις το κλίμα μιας εποχής, ή της διαχρονικής ιστορίας ενός λαού, ή ακόμα και την επίπτωση που έχει αυτό το κλίμα στην διαμόρφωση της προσωπικότητας ενός ατόμου, ή ακόμα και σε ομάδες ατόμων..

Ακόμα πιο δύσκολο είναι να μετάδοσης σε τρίτους, το κλίμα αυτό, και μάλιστα από την πλευρά που υποκειμενικά, εσύ ή ο κάθε άνθρωπος, διαφορετικά την βλέπει .

Από παλιά γράφτηκαν κείμενα, ιστορικά, ή λογοτεχνήματα, βιβλία, μυθιστορήματα, όσο και ολόκληρα θεατρικά έργα, για να το εκφράσουν. και πάλι εξέφρασαν μόνο λίγες πτυχές μιας εποχής, μιας περιόδου μιας κοινωνίας. Πάντα ήταν δύσκολο να αποτυποθεί η φιαχρονηκότητα και οι μεταβολές που αυτή επιφέρει.

Στην ‘μεταμοντέρνα’ εποχή που ζούμε δεν προλαβαίνουμε ούτε σελίδα να διαβάσουμε ολόκληρη. Έχουμε χάσει την δυνατότητα αυτοσυγκέντρωσης.

Λίγο καλύτερα τα καταφέρνει ο κινηματογράφους, πού συγκεντρώνει όλες τις τέχνες, γι’ αυτό και ονομάστηκε η κινηματογραφία ‘έβδομη τέχνη’.

Οι νέοι μας επικοινωνούν με ‘like’ και γραφήματα, φωτογραφίες και συνοπτικά μηνύματα.

Τα ‘social media’ μπήκαν στην ζωή μας και απομνημόνευσαν κείμενα, εικόνες, μηνύματα, βίντεο, επιστημονικά συγγράμματα και λογοτεχνήματα, δημιουργώντας ένα τεράστιο ατέλειωτο χάος πληροφοριών.

Αυτό το χάος έγινε μια παρακαταθήκη της ανθρωπότητας, απίστευτης χρησιμότητας, φτάνει, βέβαια, να μπορεί να αξιοποιηθεί.

Ήρθε, σαν ολοκλήρωση και η τεχνητή νοημοσύνη, το τέλειο εργαλείο για να αξιοποιηθεί αυτή η παρακαταθήκη.

Η τεχνητή νοημοσύνη θα δώσει εύκολη τροφή, για να διαχυθεί η γνώση από τις επόμενες γενιές.

Αλλά εγώ είμαι ανυπόμονος, δεν μπορώ να περιμένω να ολοκληρωθεί ο κύκλος αυτής της εξέλιξης.

Ήθελα να αφήσω την δική μου, αν και ασήμαντη, παρακαταθήκη στους φίλους, τους συνεργάτες και στα παιδιά μου.

Ούτε βιβλίο έγραψα ούτε κινηματογραφική ταινία σκηνοθέτησα, η ζωή μου και οι αντιλήψεις μου γι’ αυτήν την κοινωνία, αποτυπώνονται σε μιας μορφής ημερολόγιο που κανείς δεν θα μπορεί να το διαβάσει, όπως θα διάβαζε ένα βιβλίο, γιατί αποτελείται από πολλές στιγμές πολλών θεμάτων, απόψεων και συναισθημάτων.

Αυτό το ημερολόγιο αποτελείται από εκατοντάδες άρθρα, κείμενα, ποιήματα, βίντεο, φωτογραφίες, που αντανακλούν απόψεις και γεγονότα διαχρονικά που διαμόρφωσαν τις επαγγελματικές, προσωπικές, συναισθηματικές, πολιτικές αλλά και άλλες πολλές απόψεις και επιλογές.

Τα θέματα είναι πολλά και δεν μπορούν να προκαλούν το ίδιο ενδιαφέρον σε κάθε αναγνώστη, φίλο κοντινό ή συγγενή ή συνεργάτη ή ουδέτερο ερευνητή της εποχής που ζούμε.

Μεγάλο στόχο έβαλα και με ενοχλεί η έπαρση, που ίσως να εκπέμπει η προσπάθειά μου αυτή, απολογούμαι λοιπόν στον αναγνώστη, δεν είναι έπαρση αλλά συνειδητοποίηση ότι η γενιά μας έχει μία σπάνια ιδιαιτερότητα ή και προνόμιο, να βιώνει μία πραγματική κοσμογονική μετάλλαξη, ενδεχομένως μοναδική στην ανθρωπότητα, για χιλιετίες.

Ήμαστε η γενιά που έζησε την δημιουργία της ατομικής ενέργειας και μαζί με αυτή την δημιουργία της ατομικής βόμβας.

Ήμαστε η γενιά που χρησιμοποίησε, από αναλογικές μηχανικές αριθμομηχανές μέχρι τους τεράστιους ηλεκτρονικούς υπολογιστές, τα ρομπότ, τα ταξίδια στο διάστημα και την τεχνητή νοημοσύνη.

Με συγκίνησε λοιπόν ο υιός μου όταν παρατήρησε ότι έγγραφα πολλά άρθρα και τα δημοσίευα σε αυτό που ονομάζω ηλεκτρονικό ημερολόγιο, και μου είπε:

‘Πατέρα, γράφε εσύ και αφού πεθάνεις θα ρωτάω την τεχνητή νοημοσύνη, ποια θα ήταν η γνώμη σου για διάφορα θέματα που θα προκύπτουν.’

Λίγο μαύρο χιούμορ, αλλά και συγκινητικό για ένα Πατέρα να αξιολογείται θετικά η γνώμη του.

Το ηλεκτρονικό αυτό ημερολόγια μπορεί κανείς να πλοηγήσει, ανάλογα με τα συγκεκριμένα ενδιαφέροντά του, ιστορικά κατά περίοδο, πολιτικά, κοινωνικά, τεχνολογικά, οικογενειακά, προσωπικά κλπ.

Για να αντιληφθεί κανείς τον μηχανισμό ανάκλησης άρθρων, βίντεο, ή κεφαλαίων που εμπεριέχονται σε αυτό το ατομικό ψηφιακό ημερολόγιο, δεν έχετε παρά να επισκεφτείτε στην διεύθυνση

https://wordpress.com/post/timesforchange.wordpress.com/6718

Ο παραπάνω σύνδεσμος οδηγεί σε ένα εισαγωγικό έγγραφο για τη βάση δεδομένων ψηφιακών πληροφοριών στο ψηφιακό ημερολόγιο μου δίνοντας οδηγίες για εύκολη πλοήγηση στις σχετικές ιστοσελίδες που ενσωματώνουν άρθρα και βίντεο που αφορούν θέματα όπως:

1. Τρέχουσα κατάσταση σχετικά με τις τουρκικές ρεβιζιονιστικές επιδιώξεις, που απειλούν την Ελληνική κυριαρχια στα νησιά του Αιγαίου, Κρήτη και Δωδεκάνησα

2. Ταξιδια σε χαμένες πατρίδες στην Τουρκία, με αναφορές σε αυτόπτες μάρτυρες και στην οικογενειακή ιστορία,συγγενών και αυτών προσφύγων

3. Άρθρα για την τρέχουσα πολιτική κατάσταση στην Ελλάδα και τον κόσμο.

4. Σύγχρονα κοινωνικά ζητήματα που εξελίσσονται.

5. Τεχνολογικά και επιχειρηματικά θέματα

6. Ταξίδια και οικογενειακές εκδηλώσεις

7. Ποιήματα

Η πρόσβαση στις πληροφορίες που δημοσιεύονται στην ψηφιακή βάση μπορεί να γίνει είτε από το BLOG https://timesforchange.wordpress.com/ που περιλανβάνει περισσότερα από 600 άρθρα και βίντεο είτε από τον ιστότοπο www.nickkouzos.com. που περιλαμβάνει την ιστορία της καταστροφής του 1922 με πολλές ιστορικές αναφορές, διηγήσεις, και τεκμήρια.

Περισσότερες λεπτομέρειες δίνονται στον παραπάνω σύνδεσμο , τόσο στα ελληνικά όσο και στα αγγλικά.

Αξίζει να αναφέρουμε ότι ο αναγνώστης μπορεί να επιλέξει το θέμα που θέλει να διαβάσει, επιλέγοντας είτε το κεφάλαιο στον ιστότοποwww.nickkouzos.com είτε την ενότητα κατηγορίας μέσα στο BLOG https://timesforchange.wordpress.com/ .

Κάθε κατηγορία θα εμφανίζει όλα τα άρθρα που έχουν δηλωθεί ότι ανήκουν στην ενότητα αυτή.

Τα άρθρα που ταξινομούνται σε περισσότερες κατηγορίες θα εμφανίζονται αντίστοιχα σε όσες κατηγορίες χρειάζεται.

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My digital diary