From Grexit to Greeccident

The distance between the two in terms of end-result is admittedly very close. The roadmap, however, and the milestones are entirely different in nature and intent. While Grexit can be described, as either the failure to reach common political consensus on the way forward with respect to the financial policy of Greece, or the intentional course of a political action that will result in the exiting from the Eurozone by Greece, respectively, a Greeccident is better described as the outcome of behavioural shortfalls of the negotiating parties. In the outgoing case, it seems that the language of the negotiating partners has become very confusing by every day that goes by. It resembles a contract for a massive financial transaction that is missing the "Definitions" section, therefore everyone is applying a different interpretation of the terms used in a manner that best suits him. A political Babel, really, where the communication gap between the parties is growing bigger and bigger and the absence of a common language denominator is replacing traditional diplomacy language. It is difficult to pass judgement on who's fault it really is, but one must also pay attention to the international press, especially in Germany, where German politicians are presented in dismay about the way their Greek counterparts conduct themselves in their negotiations. The German magazine "Spiegel" published an article today, written by Jan Fleishhauer with the headline "Greece and the Euro-Negotiations: Get the shrink" where it essentially argues that the elements in the behaviour of the Greek Government show the symptoms of "psychotic experience", as experts would put it. It further invokes an article that was published last weekend by the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung", where a Berlin pscychiastrist by the name of Andreas Heinz is explaining the symptoms of the psychiatric condition, where all associations of an individual's thought-process are completely disconnected from the reality of his environment, only to draw a parallel to what is going-on these days between Greece and its European partners in Brussels. The article is really great in the sense that it portrays the ever growing gap in the argumentation of each side, where Greece is presented as the hallucinating country that now sees enemies and conspiracies everywhere and puts all the blame for its current predicament not on SYRIZA's own conduct but on the capitalism that surrounds it. Fact, however, is that it has become increasingly difficult for the European partners not only to communicate with Athens and its political staff on technical aspects of the Greek debt problem, but also to take this government seriously in general, since from the angle of the material aspects of its government work it has converted itself into a machine that generates one nonsense suggestion after the other (tourist to act as tax inspectors, receipt lotteries, etc.). With such a constellation of political facts, it is more likely that a Greeccident will occur before anything else. Seriously, could anyone really blame them?