Maybe I just don't understand the situation.

Every time I read about Greece in the news, I laugh a little*. What a bunch of complete fuck ups.

If your country is flat broke, your economy failing, etc. etc., maybe protesting isn't a great idea, because:

A) Between the infighting and the lack of any sort of organization, the protest will achieve pretty much nothing. In fact, it's actually pretty hard to figure out what you're really protesting. "Oh noes, our country is broke. I will go hold a sign and throw molotovs until this is fixed!"? "We are out of money, so I will go and stand infront of parliament!"?

B) Going on strike because your country is broke is like drilling holes in your leaky boat to help let water out. Seriously, is the average IQ of a Greek somewhere around room temperature?

Really, I guess point A is the same as point B. "Protesting" the fact you live in a shitty country just makes absolutely no sense to me. It's like protesting about it being Thursday.

It's not like you're going to get paid more money or something because you're being a little bitch about things. Your country will just sink, and we'll get to see what happens when a country completely collapses and can't just start a World War to fix it.


*The fact that most of the pictures included are of Greeks dressed up as Spartans, carrying garbage can lids as hoplite shields and wielding crick bats and wooden swords, does not help this. Seriously, I am sadly not joking about this, some of them even have red capes and all. The news footage looks like a mix between Alexander and The Warriors.