Greece Echoing Their Ancient Ancestors?

Greece is in full crisis mode. Banks are shut, pensioners are queuing and crying, people are running out of money, 613 jobs a day are being lost.

Their government seem to be relying on one thing to get them through this… hope.

Now we all know the story of the Pandora’s box, a story written in the times before Christianity, and when the ancient Greeks worshipped the Greek Gods such as Zeus, Aphrodite, Poseidon, etc.

Pandora’s box is rather like the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, it shows that temptation is sometimes too strong to ignore.

Pandora was told never to open then box, but she did, and all the evils that were in that box were supposedly let loose on us mortal humans, except one evil, and the evil that managed to stay in the box was hope.

Why did the ancient Greek Gods see hope as evil? Because it makes you act under a delusion, and can make people rather lethargic.

Instead of really thinking the matter through thoroughly, and making sure all the details are correct, you're just concentrating on what the end product will be, therefore missing some of the small problems that you will come across and sorting them out, you ignore them, hoping they go away.

Not noticing that these small problems all collect together to create one big problem.

Recently the European left have been bleating on about a “politics of hope” for quite a while now, maybe the Greek government, and the left in general should remind themselves of Pandora’s box, and remember that it was thought of as an evil.