The root of irrationality

Under the flow of events that point forward, such as the prime minister's announcements on Saturday regarding the 36 measures to improve everyday life at the Thessaloniki International Fair, under shocking events that define new dimensions in common things, under the alternation of incidents that constantly modify the content of our lives, lies a parallel reality that emerges in almost every crisis, big or small, and keeps us stuck in stagnant shallow waters.

A fire breaks out on a slope on an island and somebody says, "They started it to plant wind turbines," and some others immediately agree. Islanders' intolerance of wind farms is well known, and they're partly right, due to past zoning mistakes and illegalities, but it's a wonder how an old conspiracy theory that has been debunked repeatedly, after the mega-fires in Evia and Dadia, survives.

Environmentalists,...