There's an eerie silence everywhere I go, ever since the announcement of the new government measures on Sunday. It feels like a blanket of pessimism has fallen over everyone and you see people walking down the street or working with their heads hung low.
People are quick to blame outside influences, the markets, the government, politicians of the last 30 years, and basically everyone else but themselves for the current crisis the country is in.
However, it's the Greeks that started and allowed this situation to reach the stage it's at right now.
The Greek mentality has a unique way of molding people into big drama queens that are secretively smart-asses. How? Here are some of my real-life examples:
- The employer that constantly complains to his employees that he has no money, customers aren't paying, he dreads the end of the month because he doesn't know if he'll be able to pay the bills... is the same guy that drives around a BMW 4x4, lives in a luxurious house and goes on vacation in secrecy lest his 500-euro/month employees find out and get jealous.
- The pensioner that curses at today's politicians, calling them impotent with his friends over screaming matches at the kafeneio... is the same man that once (and often times, more than once) voted for a local politician and/or did favors for him in hopes that this politician would repay him with a job for his son or daughter. In the public sector, of course.
- The woman expressing her frustration over the financial crisis on TV, complete with a look of anguish and phrases she hears uttered on TV ("Things just keep getting harder," "How am I going to feed my kids")... is the same woman that... read the rest at allthegreeks.com
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