I tend to be a progressive optimist in life. Other times, though, I can be a miserable motherfucker.
Take Greece and its default crisis for instance.
Sometimes I feel Western civilization is crumbling before our eyes and that it's the United States who represent the last hope on the edge of the cliff. I also have been queasy about the EU over the years. I studied it in school and talked to many a Uro-peen about it over the years. Lately, I've been pessimistic about its great experiment over the long run. I see too many disturbing under currents there - neo-nationalism, structural unemployment, expensive welfare states to name a few - that threaten it.
Wouldn't it be ironic if Greece, the base of Western culture, represents the first cracks in that experiment?
Other than that, I don't see how bailing them out will solve anything in any meaningful way.
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