This is a somewhat free translation of an ancient Greek saying, apparently deriving from Euripides. Rather apt for today’s “leaders” of the EU, from Olli Rehn to Wolfgang Schauble, Angela Merkel and the new comer with the unpronounceable name who is apparently a pig farmer, and showed the magic of his own catastrophic mismanagement in the notorious case of Cyprus.
Which brings us to a tweet by Sony Kapoor:
Dear #EU leaders, honest mistakes are one thing, ideological blindness is still sometimes forgivable but wilful madness? #Austerity
? Sony Kapoor (@SonyKapoor) April 30, 2013
And still they refuse to see the obvious. Is it just madness or vicious sadism?
Still they are lucky, these disastrous men and women, since instead of the scaffold or being torn apart by an angry mob, they will probably be rewarded with lectureships at American Universities.