16812 - Greece, Australia and the Link Theory

N. Lygeros
Translated from the Greek by Athena Kehagias

Because of Hellenism, we are able to approach the relationship between Greece and Australia through the Link Theory . Because of the distance, the classical approach through proximity inevitably collapses.
Consequently,a geostrategic relationship is hard to be evaluated on that basis.
So,the topostrategic approach offers more possibilities since it doesn’t deal with the concept of distance and it focuses exclusively on the notion of the relationship.
In this context, however, the relations theory will examine the field generally and will not be able to distinguish the nature of the relationships.
Also, the set theory with a partial assembly, while it offers potentiality of specificity its again entrapped by the notion of the neighbour.
While the Link Theory, by nature considers the notion of the relationship as a whole, as it knows that the local element is not enough to spread the information on a total level. When we examine even the simplest mental schema of the Link Theory, we realize that this is not regarding a simple relationship, or a neighbourhood relationship. We are by nature constantly forced to see all the ties in order to understand their particles.
In this sense we can see in this property, that of the mosaic, with its polichromy in relation to the chip which remains monochromic. So in the Link Theory we can encode a distant relationship, whichever that distance may seemingly be Therefore in the case of the relationship between Greece and Australia it gains a substance. Because although the two countries are at a great distance based on the data of geography, we know that a relationship exists.
This relationship which originally was established by the first waves of immigration, does not only owe its existence on this factor alone.
The establishment of the relationship derives from its size and its duration.
Therefore we see the temporal dimension of this relationship which allows us to study it also chronostrategically and not only topostrategically.
The most important element in this relationship is the notion of release contained in the link.
Because it is not regarding a bondage that acts as a yoke, but links which remain free because of the structure, since in actual fact function only through the context of volition
In this model the parts of the bondage are the Greeks of Australia.
There isn’t therefore a direct transnational relationship as is in a case of proximity. Nor does it regard a chain that binds each party to the two adjoining ones. While every Greek Australian can operate independently, the Greeks of Australia function as a whole, and in a manner that is encoded as an link, because the release of the one, leads immediately and directly to the liberation of all.
So if we realize that we are in a relationship of this type, then we will also realize that we have more opportunities than those expressed by geostrategy and that over time, we could function chronostrategically with the support of links and the superstructure of the Link Theory.