Perspective
Oct. 11th, 2012 02:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bktheirregularYeah, things got kind of unruly in Athens on Tuesday, with Chancellor Merkel's visit.
(Aside: read at least one comment somewhere-or-other declaring: "Merkel should be grateful that the title of 'Worst Chancellor Ever' is rather securely sewn up.")
On the other hand, 48 hours later, I went by Syntagma Square to grab a bite of lunch, and took a look at the hotels on one side of the square. Normally, that's where the hooligans go to find the rocks that they throw at the cops - in the wake of a riot, they're generally smashed to gravel.
Today, those steps were all intact, all the way up the side of the square.
(Aside: read at least one comment somewhere-or-other declaring: "Merkel should be grateful that the title of 'Worst Chancellor Ever' is rather securely sewn up.")
On the other hand, 48 hours later, I went by Syntagma Square to grab a bite of lunch, and took a look at the hotels on one side of the square. Normally, that's where the hooligans go to find the rocks that they throw at the cops - in the wake of a riot, they're generally smashed to gravel.
Today, those steps were all intact, all the way up the side of the square.
