The Metapolitefsi generation

I am a child of the Metapolitefsi, the luckiest generation in Greekdom since the Battle of Manzikert, a generation that experienced the fullest and maturest period of democracy this country has ever known. We were in the age of prosperity, the last generation with the luxury of knowing that we would have a better life than those of our parents. Most of us didn't have to work to study - we studied with our parents' money and lived well thanks to our children's money; they're still paying.

By the time Greece went bankrupt, most of us had done whatever we were going to do professionally, had evolved into extroverted and cosmopolitan people and had accomplished most of our goals. We were in our 50s when the crisis struck, at the top of the pile of sand in the bottom part of the hourglass of wealth, before it was turned again and our children plummeted into the void first. The...