Because it is depressing perhaps? Pleasantries aside, not only is the Greek Economy in a full Depression but the Greek people are also in full depression. Which is why reactions and protests so far have been luke warm. Nevertheless those pretending to govern should not be reassured by this subdued reaction, still less should they be enscouraged by it.

Today already there have been some flickers of resistance. Outside the Ministry of Labour, albeit a KKE organised demonstration blocking the path of the troika. Who are demanding that Greek labour be turned into slave labour with no rights, endless working hours every day, and less than subsistence pay.

The idea is to turn Greece into a Gulag where the Foreign, probably German Capitalist can maximize their profits in true neoliberal dogma. So the demonstration was indeed luke warm. There should have been thousands, tens of thousands blocking the entrance.

But the fact that there weren’t, should not lull anyone, troika gang or local quislings, into a sense of false security. The resentment is there, shimmering. The anger is there, controlled. Muscles are twitching, but not yet flexing. People are depressed. But this depression is not the final phase. It is the calm before the storm. It is the lull before the fighting flares up.

The whole of Greece is like a tinder box, or to modernize this expression, it is as if the whole country has been drenched in gasoline, and the tiniest of sparks will set off a wild raging fire.

Whatever else it is Samaras may or may not be doing in Frankfurt (which is no doubt nothing more than shallow window dressing he hopes to feed to the masses as a success) he might do well to ask for some extra helicopters to be on alert.