STEVE PIECZENIK TALKS

Greece is a Moribund Country, Barely on Life Support!

Only Two Enfeebled Countries: France/Italy Want a Resuscitation Lest they Drop Dead as well!

By now, you and I have all witnessed this macabre dance of impending death as a tedious exercise in collective self-delusions. No German in their right mind could have the slightest doubt that Greece can never and will never abide or comply with anything that requires self-discipline or some measure of austerity. The Germans, masters of racial profiling and discipline, have never hesitated on their often accurate analyses of their dying Greek partner. Greece has no idea whether it wants to live in a community of nineteen nations or enter the real world of hard work and self-denial and go it alone in this big scary world.

The truth is evident in the incredible delay of the negotiations process. The Germans should consult their past famous psychologists before their exegesis to America and learn that DELAY IS DENIAL. By delaying the process of decisions, both on the Greek and German sides, the very process denotes incredible denial on both sides of the negotiating table which has been the major characteristic of a superior power [Germany] that does not trust a subordinate, undeveloped power [Greece]. 

Whatever Greece will promise for any potential future actions will be nullified by the fact that the people of Greece made it very clear in their past referendum that they do not want to remain in a custodial relationship where their every movement and existence depends not on the veracity of the economic/political realities but on what our own esteemed playwright, Tennessee Williams, once describe as ‘the kindness of strangers’. There is no more kindness to distribute when the recipient is neither grateful nor capable of gratitude. At this end stage of Greece’s existence there is nothing more than the whimper of entitlement in slurry words that amounts to something akin to the fact that “Greece was the mother culture of western civilization”.

Impending death and delay of termination are not bosom buddies in life or even in the end stages. How Greece exits this farce contrived as a narrative of negotiations when in fact the Germans know all too well that they are playing the final aria. Let death acquire its dignity not in the act of termination but in the dignity of allowing Greece to exit with some sense of self-worth and hope. The Euro is nothing but the last strains of oxygen provided to a moribund patient.

It’s time that Germany shut off the oxygen valve …and let the youth of Greece start again with a clean slate….if that were possible.

Let me end with quoting Matthew 25:36—

“I was sick [Greece], and ye visited me.”