“What is a lower instinct?” The question shot in my brain upon hearing Greek finance minister Yiannis Stournaras telling main-opposition party leader Alexis Tsipras of left-wing SYRIZA:
You are appealing to the lower instincts and tell the people we can stay int the euro without the memorandum. This is populism and lies.”
“What do you mean ‘lower instincts? Have you understood that you have drown into poverty 2/3 of the population, that hunger is spreading in Greece and that children go to school hungry?” Tsipras replied to Stournaras.
The clash between Stournaras and Tsipras in the Greek Parliament on Friday, when the SYRIZA-leader accused the finance minister “being a representative of the Troika.”
Unfortunately neither Tsipras nor we will ever know what exactly are ‘lower instincts’ are when it comes to economy as Stournaras refrained from giving an answer.
PS Did Stournaras mean that “people would get lust to turn into wild animals, with the strongest eating the weak one?” Or did he imply that the 1.3 million Greeks without job, without income and health insurance, those 20,000 without home are hiding some primordial innate behavior inside them that could break out one day?
With “lower instincts” the Troika and their puppets means people who have the nerve to think, and even insist on having something called “a life”.
That is only for those who can afford it, and they, the Troika and Co are making sure you and I can’t.
Today, the Irish have been told (via the German Press!) that they will need to cough up another 4 billion or so to furhter bail-out their banks. That’s on top of the 72 billion they already handed over to pay for the luxuries of the beautiful people who do not suffer from “lower instincts” and ARE entitled to “a life”, no matter who pays for it. As long as it isn’t they themselves…