The ventriloquists

So many people seem to have reached breaking point, slammed physically and mentally by exhaustion. The pressure on the people of a country that is bankrupt on so many different levels is calculable in megatons; more so because whatever light may be shimmering at the end of the tunnel is constantly being blocked out by toxic and torpid forces.

Singer-songwriter Dionysis Savvopoulos summed up this prevalent sense of burnout nicely in recent comments on the behavior of the government and certain prominent leftist ministers. "It all casts a pall on my spirit," he said. "It doesn't feel like we've been out of the memorandum for the past six months. People are struggling... We are being governed by Andreas Papandreou ventriloquists; by people imitating him," he added, referring to the former socialist prime minister.

Ventriloquists tend not to be held accountable for their...