Vangelis's final lament
Vangelis's final lament By Ilias Makris By Pantelis Boukalas Bullies. Tormentors. Tyrants. Tough guys. Chest-beating cowards. They have always been around and it looks like they’re not going away any time soon. After all, the violence pouring out of the pores of society is on the rise, according to experts as well as judging from the simple observation of the things that go on around us every day. The words for these people also exist and they are clear. They identify those who are not just aggressive but cannibalistic toward those perceived as being weaker or different: be it in terms of gender, race, religion, sexual preference, social class, political belief and, more recently, muscle size. A relatively new aspect of this phenomenon – except for the term bullying, which for a section of the population causes more confusion than clarification – is not the tendency of these bullies to form packs but rather how much younger these packs of tormentor...