The creation of the Greek autocratic state in 1832, and especially as a protectorate, marked the complete failure of the Greek revolution and the beginning of a deadly conflict with Hellenism, which had continuously experienced the anthropocentric phenomenon of freedom from antiquity until then, and especially in the phase of the cosmopolitan era.
The Greek revolution of 1821 aimed indeed at the recovery of the state of the cosmopolitan, the cosmopolis, with the background of the cities/communities, structured politically through the vehicle of the cooperative economy and democracy. The autocratic state was from the beginning a foreign body to the core of Hellenism and therefore set a prerequisite in order not to be rejected: the expulsion of its anthropocentric foundations (the common, the cooperative economy, democracy) from the body of Greek society and, by extension, from its cosmopolitan doctrine. However, in order to achieve this goal, Hellenism had to sever its relationship with its value-based legacies, to alienate itself from its cultural harness, and to restart its history with the obligations owed to the "Western canon". Henceforth, the "Neo-Hellene" was taught to see himself through the eyes of the autocratic state and the subsequent constitutional/elective monarchy, that is, with the (limited) perspective of the post-feudal man.
The actions of the Greek state are dominated by this conflict, which resulted in the uprooting of the foundations of the Greek anthropocentric cosmopolitanism and consequently in the complete disappearance of the major Hellenism. Precisely because this state was from the beginning a foreign body to the anthropocentric self-constitution of Greek society, it quickly degenerated into a degenerate imitation of the Western "model" and ultimately into a peculiar regime defined by the notion of kleptocracy.
The last resurgence of this detestable version of elective monarchy will occur during the "metapolitefsi" (the period following the fall of the military junta in Greece), when there will be an unprecedented assault on Greek society and a simultaneous targeting of its cultural legacies that constitute its political heterogeneity and, in the background, its resistance character. In any case, the history of the achievements of Hellenism, measured by the achievements of the nation rather than the state, is capable in itself of shedding light on the developments after the Revolution and, in the background, the causes of Greek misfortune within the framework of the nation-state.
Therefore, the question of the future of Greek society passes through its harmonization with the anthropocentric origins of the Greek world, with the first step being the transformation of the polity, that is, the removal of the modernist elective monarchy and the implementation of the democratic principle that has been the continuous characteristic of Hellenism until the end of Ottoman rule, as the only condition capable of restoring politics to the common interest.