Interesting how words and their meanings blend together. Depression. The Great Depression. What will probably be known in the history books of the future as The Frau’s Unnecessary Depression. Economic depression being roughly defined as recession running amok. That is exactly what is happening in Greece and is beginning to threaten the rest of Europe too.
And here we come to that other meaning of depression. The psychological one. Being depressed, clinical depression even. Losing the will to even live, perhaps. Despair. Loss of hope and that sort of thing.
And another twist to the word, linking one meaning with the other. The willfully inflicted economic depression in the Eurozone has brought about a high level of psychological depression throughout Europe, leading to a horrible increase in suicides.
And what is more depressing: The leading lights of Europe, Merkel, Schauble, Barroso and others, didn’t care a fig for the depression hitting Greece, then the other countries of the south. They spun a vicious yarn of the profligate, lazy, good for nothing, sinful southerners who were merely getting their just deserts.
And then all of a sudden they realised what should have been quite obvious to them from the very beginning of this ill conceived, pathologically sadistic policy they relished imposing on others. That their chickens were now coming home to roost. That the recession is seeping into their own little domains which hey had supposed were immune. God only knows why they did suppose this, but suppose it they did.
And off go the alarm bells! And there starts the silly talk about silly ineffective ways to “deal with youth unemployment”! And you begin to wonder, why specifically “youth” unemployment? And not the rampant unemployment caused by the fiscal austerity toxic medicine overall?
And then they let slip that they are so concerned about youth unemployment, because what will happen if the youth of Europe suddenly begins to react? One way or another. Or every way conceivable. What if they riot and revolt? What if they band together and smash everything the nomenklatura of Europe is feeding on, like vultures, at the expense of the peoples of Europe?
So they huddle together over a bottle or two of Chateau Lafitte to try and dream up ways of defending their privileges and their fiefdoms. Because that is the only reason in hell they are concerned with the damage and destruction their policies have wrought.
And that is the most depressing thing of all.