``I always wished to address this Assembly in Greek, but I realized that it would have been
indeed Greek to all present in this room. I found out, however, that I could make my address
in Greek which would still be English to everybody. With your permission, Mr. Chairman, I shall
do it now, using with the exception of articles and prepositions only Greek words.''
Mr Xenophon Zolotas
Kyrie,
It is Zeus’ anathema on our epoch for the dynamism of our economies and the heresy of our
economic methods and policies that we should agonize between the Scylla of numismatic
plethora and the Charybdis of economic anemia.
It is not my idiosyncrasy to be ironic or sarcastic but my diagnosis would be that politicians are
rather cryptoplethoristic. Although they emphatically stigmatize numismatic plethora, energize
it through their tactics and practices.
Our policies have to be based more on economic and less on political criteria. Our gnomon has
to be a metron between political, strategic and philanthropic scopes. Political magic has always
been antieconomic.
In our epoch characterized by monopolies, oligopolies, monopsonies, monopolistic antagonism
and polymorphous inelasticities, our policies have to be more orthological. But this should not
be metamorphosed into plethorophobia, which is endemic among academic economists.
Numismatic symmetry should not antagonize economic acme.
A greater harmonization between the practices of the economic and numismatic archons is
basic.
Parallel to this, we have to synchronize and harmonize more and more our economic and
numismatic policies panethnically.
These scopes are more practical now, when the prognostics of the political and economic
barometer are halcyonic.
The history of our didymous organizations in the sphere has been didactic and their Gnostic
practices will always be a tonic to the polyonymous and idiomorphous ethnical economics. The
genesis of the programmed organizations will dynamize these policies. I sympathize,
therefore, with the apostles and the hierarchy of our organizations in their zeal to program
orthodox economic and numismatic policies, although I have some logomachy with them.
I apologize for having tyrannized you with my Hellenic phraseology.
In my epilogue, I emphasize my eulogy to the philoxenous autochthons of this cosmopolitan
metropolis and my encomium to you, Kyrie, and the stenographers.
