Voltaire's Bastards

Demonstrations are continuing in Central Athens with demonstrators booing Greek cabinet mps on their exit from the Hellenic Parliament buildings in constitution square (Syntagma) Athens.

Demonstrators also booed european parliament mps last night in Kerkyra Corfu whilst the mps were making their way from a spaghetti/lobster meal towards a yacht for a cruise through the lovely ionian sea.

Unsubstantiated reports point to a number of media moguls pushing for a return to the drachma- or rumouring the unsoundness of Greek banks- so that their amassed debts to the Greek state or the Greek banks may be written off or dramatically reduced.

Greece and Spain Protest : Who will follow ?

The grave mistakes of the leisure class have lead to a new underclass (Galbraith- Veblen), ie. Young and old (over forty as per most human resources departments) educated and out of work professional men and women.

Judging from the current demonstrations in Spain and Greece, and the probable domino effects in Ireland, Italy (which will eventually find their way to the more industrialized countries) the new underclass is composed of both labor and out of work professionals.

If the leisure class, ie. the industrialists, aren’t careful they may see an unprecedented backlash that will not only affect their profits, but their very existence.

Recall that May Day started in the US, and that the red flag was the result of a young woman dipping a dead worker’s shirt in a pool of blood.

“Κραυγή Λαού, Οργή Θεού”