Lessons from the Metapolitefsi

Is Greece's transition to democracy, a historical process known as the "Metapolitefsi," complete? What are the legacies and hangups left behind, 50 years after the collapse of the military dictatorship? The debate on these and many more questions has started, and it needs to carry on, if for no other reason than to separate myth from reality. We owe it to ourselves and to younger generations for whom the term "Metapolitefsi" may not mean very much at all. We saw as much in the poll by Pulse commissioned by Kathimerini, which illustrates the different points of view between Greeks who experienced the transition as it unfolded, and those who have seen it at work only during the economic crisis. Younger generations, for example, seem to take democracy for granted and value it less than their elders.

I have realized over the past few days that for my own and older generations,...