On dictatorships

 I am happy to sell my freedom for a plate of ready-made food

I am happy to sell my dignity to have fun

I am happy to sell my independence because I am afraid to take on the responsibility of freedom

I am happy to sell Peace

I am happy to sell Life

Because War will hide my own mess

And death will make me equal and like you

And I have not been able to feel this while I am alive because I have not learned to love

I am happy with fascism because 'Barbarians are always a certain solution'

And we lived quietly

And we were comfortable in our complacency

And we justified our indifference thoughtfully and skeptically 

By blaming the children instead of the tyrants.

Our eyes were closed, and our hearts were closed

For us tyranny was both necessary and inevitable

An uprising seemed absurd and unjust

Fortunately, the mistake was ours

 

16-1-1974 Thessaloniki Greece

Maria Papagianni Michalopoulou 

 Me and my mother, Maria Papagianni Michalopoulou

She wrote that poem after the Greek dictatorship's fall in 1973.*

Sadly it's is still relevant.

* Translated from Greek by Lotous Michalopoulou 

Adapted screenplay: MODERN LYSISTRATA

Copyright © 2026 Lotous Michalopoulou

FADE IN:

INT. LIVING ROOM 1 - NIGHT

A big tv screen is filling most of the frame.

POV: A hand holding a TV remote control in a phallic shape rises and presses a button that turns the screen on.

This scene is on repeat before each cut.

All action is happening on that screen, apart from the hand with the phallic remote control switching the channels.

 

Lexi-crisis, History and Story

Audience participation.

Hats with character names on.

Story: Hello everyone, I am story here for the Lexi-crisis annual Christmas party. I come from time immemorial to share stories like they did back in the day, that united people around the fire.

History: You can’t be from time immemorial, it’s not physically possible.

Art & Transcendental Meditation with RODOLPHOS ELEFTHERIADIS, Interview, (2005)

Rodolfos Eleftheriadis about Art & Transcendental Meditation

‘Beauty and Truth both lead to the same goal, to our inner Light.’

Exclusive Interview with Lotous Michalopoulou

 

The New Narratives

My short stories, scripts and poems

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New edition of Dear Future Historian 2020-2025

 The 2020-2025 collection is now here 

Dear future philosopher

My new miniature philosophy book is ready 

You can read all five essays here:

Is rationality a matter of reasoning in a way that is likely to generate true beliefs?

Is killing an innocent person always wrong? Spoiler alert: Yes (Undergraduate philosophy essay about war)

Is the Jus ad Bellum/Jus in Bello distinction a reliable guide in thinking about the moral rules of war?

On Preferentism

Philosophy on the meaning of life

However if you'd like a Paperback or a kindle copy, its now available on Amazon.

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The Missing Page

I wrote that story years ago.

Time to get it off my to do list

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Sophia, a young city girl, visits her grandmother’s village and takes the reader on an adventure about the importance of Eco-Balance and Nature.

Themes include family values and generational reconciliation, promoting emotional intelligence.

Sophia discovers and old beaten diary on the first day of her Easter holiday break. A diary with a missing page. It belongs to an anonymous girl, and Sophia is surprised to find many similarities with her.

Inspired by the diary, she begins her own journal, in which she wishes her grandmother were a little more like her mystery author.

The end of the Easter break is marked with the unearthing and opening of a time-capsule which contains the missing page with the mystery author’s name.

Gaia’s Gamble

My first Novela is now available on Amazon worldwide.

Ramkayon is a young woman in the 13th century CE seeking immortality as an apprentice of a witch. The witch is burned by the Church Inquisition and Ramkayon hides in a monastery disguised as a teenage boy. Gods Gaia and Death (Thanatos) place a bet on Ramkayon’s lust for life. Death claims people come willingly to him at the end. Gaia will do anything to avoid losing this bet. When Ramkayon is caught sleeping with a monk she miraculously escapes death. Ramkayon has a daughter, and her journey continues to Asia. Among the contrast between Ramkayon’s lust for life and the adventures of reality we see her perseverance in her determent quest to know herself. This is a story that mixes fantasy, spirituality, philosophy, nihilism, and the author’s family biography.

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