Irrationality

Many times we discuss great scientists based on whether they were given a Nobel Prize, or if a subatomic particle is named after them.

Obviously, this also pays due respect to people who, with their work, really advanced scientific knowledge. They made great discoveries. They added to our knowledge.

With his decision to suspend US funding to the World Health Organisation US President Donald Trump has surpassed all limits of social callousness, even his own,  and quite rightly has triggered a global chorus of strong criticism.

The opening on Thursday of Greece's first crematorium in Ritsona on the island of Evia serves as an example of the sometimes backward state of the country. 

In Greece, a funerary custom which is anything but a novelty for most European countries became tangled up in a web of dogmatic beliefs that held it hostage to political reluctance for decades. 

We are growing accustomed to what can only be described irrational normality - and this is a very dangerous trend.

The real economy is, again, near breaking point and speculation about a Greek exit from the euro area, or Grexit, is back in the international headlines. Such an economic environment is extremely hostile to private enterprise.

Barely a day passes without a new example of how our discussions in Turkey are becoming increasingly irrational. What is ironic is that pundits, journalists, diplomats, academics, etc. are constantly spending their time and energy trying to rationalize the irrational.

President Traian Basescu on Wednesday stated that Romania has no rational reasons to fear the conflict in Ukraine, yet drew attention that the irrational may function in this case, and our country must behave in its training as if problems may exist.