LOL.

In all fairness, this is not just Greece you see being acted out in this wonderful story. You can find the same Wonderland reasoning skills in Portugal, Spain, some parts of France, Sicily, Morocco, and so on. It is -- I think -- a rearguard mindset which has not quite emerged from the Dark Ages, and only begrudging peeks from time to time at the notes arriving from the early Industrial Age. It varies in wide swings from one neighborhood to the next. One block has a cybercafe, and another less than a mile away has a man repairing bicycles with a nineteenth-century blacksmith's kit.

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