Both, actually. We are being warned, quite rightly I would say, that this lull in the on going Euro-crisis is not due to the ‘success’ (ha, ha, ha!) of the Greek bond swap or even Mario Draghi’s heroic, but insufficient efforts to circumvent The Frau’s aversion to anything even remotely resembling Quantative Easing (that is printing money.) No, this, it is maintained (and I would agree) is merely due to the fact that we are smack bang in the eye of the storm. Where, for those who know about such phenomena, it is calm. Eerily calm.
But today, here in Athens, Spring appears to have finally graced us with her presence! The weather is beautiful. A gorgeous sunny day, and for all the muck going on and the even worse and more horrible conditions we are being threatened will come, one can’t help but feel elated! So I would like to share this song with you:
In the on going campaign to terrify us out of our wits and keep threatening us that if we don’t destroy the last vestiges of our quality of life in order to become ‘competitive’, this clip shows us that the quality of life is not some objective given set in stone. And it is not exclusively an industrialised state, along with poisonous pollution China style and dirt cheap labour feeling miserable all the time. Which appears to be the current ideal (for the others that is, us, in other words, not those imposing it of course, decked out in their Hermes scarves).
But they are wrong (what again?!), quality of life is a subjective value. And we do not share the same vision as the troika or our so called government. Perhaps Ghandi was right! Lets go back to weaving our own clothes and churning the butter! It couldn’t be any worse than what is being planned for us as an alternative! And at least we may start singing again!