social crash haircut

Along with the economic woes that describe our era a social crash is even more difficult. What does it realy mean though? Families that split up, crime, violence, growing social inequality, the loss of the middle class. It is the week before Christmas and for most families there is either no income or a highly reduced income. The haircut to the Greek debt back in October has been translated into paycuts and pensioncuts along with a sharp increase in taxation (see HARATSI November 25th 2011). Those who are employed have seen their paycheques reduced by a full third. Pensioners had their Christmas alowance reduced by one half. Christmas shopping is down eighty percent. Sure one of the reasons to love and live in Greece is that it is not a consumer based economy or culture. What is it though? What do you call a community that is somewhere between first and third world with ties to the second? Even geographicaly we are spread across three tectonic plates. Parts of Greece remind one of Africa, other parts of Asia and other parts of Europe. The one thing I can say for certain is that our ruling class thinks it is ruling serfs. The illusion is that they can do whatever they want, never pay taxes, and continue to raise the cost of living while reducing incomes and increasing taxation to the working class and the middle class. The idea that has held on from the days of the dictatorship is that the people will just roll over and play dead. The people of course have a whole different view of things and a whole different agenda. I just hope that the hotheads don't prevail. Why do I plaster 26th of October on the 17th of November flag? Well the first is the date of the new and improved deal for the 6th installment of the IMF-Troika save Greece loan plan, 26th of October 2011. As for the 17th of November, the student uprising that ousted the dictators in 1973, and the red flag belongs to the 17th of November terrorist organization. They are all, the terrorists, presently behind bars. May cooler heads prevail...