“An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to
speak, and impossible to be silent.” Edmund Burk, Parliament, May 5th 1789.
All across Greece,
something is stirring. It is one of those rare moments in history where so many
agree to something so fundamental. The country must change. The question is: “To which direction
and how?” Any attempt to answer this question has as its prerequisite the
examination of an underlying cause, of an initial “why” of our collective
failure.