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The Euro debt crisis began to spiral out of control when Prime Minister George Papandreou â€" called a “prince” by Reuters â€" failed to meet expectations. Papandreou was the third generation of his family to serve in that office. This is connected to the temperament of  Greece. The desire to want the same family to run for office again and again is in Jungian terms a "feeling" one. This is good for the Greeks, in my opinion, provided that they stay out of the EU, which is in the same Jung vein a "thinking" operation; a "greater Germany," if you will, as Germany is in these terms a thinking, objectivist place and center of the economic matrix.

And so is the U.S., but the sensibility here to default to governance by family members â€" princes; Bushes, Kennedys and Clintons in particular â€" in high office shows decline in our case as it presents a shift in sensibilities from the thinking function on which we were founded to a degenerative emotional realm, o! ne not native to American karma. One bad for a new people; one suited to the ancient regime. It is in a word a decline to monarchist instincts, or better, a desire, given the size of our country, for an emperor to relieve ourselves of the anguish and transcendence of self-governance.

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