Hellas, hélas.

The European Central Bank.

The Greeks taught Europeans how to think when their greatest minds, some of the noblest pedagogues ever, gave us their Philosophy ('love of wisdom'), the bedrock of the Western Hemisphere's intellectual and political progress over subsequent millennia. Until our own time.

The rulers of modern Europe, thinking themselves more enlightened than Socrates, Plato and the 'father of politics', Aristotle, reject the old Greeks' clarity of thought, choosing instead to impose, through a vast and programmatic system of Big Lies, their own corrupt and inhuman ideology of empire.

So now, as Europe and the world begin to suffer the catastrophic consequences of the hubris of these evil oligarchs, Greece must resume her time-honoured role as continental didact and teach us some fundamentals once again. This time, it's Political Economy for Dummies. Think of it as PPE with the Philosophy component replaced by suffering and mob violence.

It is not a course for the fainthearted student. It is taught in environs quite unlike the gracious groves of Plato's Academy. Not to mention l'École Nationale and our own dear Oxford where once strolled and privily spake together the lofty and dispassionate criminals who insist on the enforcement of their rule contra populum, contra rationem, contra mundum, as they calmly watch fire begin to consume their project... and the entire continent.