{"id":13158,"date":"2026-06-27T12:46:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T09:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=13158"},"modified":"2026-06-27T12:46:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T09:46:00","slug":"a-message-with-mantinades-by-dimitris-papadimoulis-barbs-aimed-at-arrogance-on-the-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=13158","title":{"rendered":"A message with mantinades by Dimitris Papadimoulis: barbs aimed at arrogance on the Left"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>     In a social media post, former MEP <strong>Dimitris Papadimoulis<\/strong> commented on current events within the <strong>Left<\/strong>, choosing to draw on the wisdom of Cretan tradition rather than political slogans. <\/p>\n<p>     As he noted, these days she sees <strong>arrogance<\/strong> and a refusal to engage in <strong>dialogue<\/strong> and <strong>cooperation<\/strong> dominating the entire political spectrum. Prompted by this, he recalled two old Cretan mantinades, which he described as timelessly relevant. <\/p>\n<h2>     <strong>The two mantinades he selected<\/strong> <\/h2>\n<p>     In his post, <strong>Dimitris Papadimoulis<\/strong> wrote: \u201cIn times like these, with arrogance and a refusal to engage in dialogue and cooperation unfortunately dominating our entire political spectrum, two old and beautiful Cretan mantinades come to mind: <\/p>\n<p>     <b>\u201cGreet the pedestrians when you\u2019re on horseback, so that they, too, will greet you when you dismount.\u201d<\/b> <\/p>\n<p>     <b>\u201cLove me so I may love you; desire me so I may desire you, for there will come a time when you desire me and I do not.\u201d<\/b>. <\/p>\n<figure>     <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.cachefly.net\/tomanifesto\/images\/placeholder.png\" alt=\"papadim-anartisi.JPG\" data-dpc-media-id=\"191583\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.cachefly.net\/image\/large\/96\/papadim-anartisi.JPG\"> <\/figure>\n<h2>     <strong>The message accompanying the post<\/strong> <\/h2>\n<p>     The former MEP concluded his remarks with one more comment, expressing his concern about the current political climate. \u201cWise words. I hope they are heeded, though I don\u2019t see that happening\u2026\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n    In a social media post, former Member of the European Parliament Dimitris Papadimoulis commented on current events within the Left, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}