After a damning IMF report on the EU’s botching of the Greek financial crisis, a Eurocrat snootily commented that hindsight was all very well, but…. Had the EU shown a little foresight, it might not have landed us in the current disastrous mess.
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Iain Mansfield
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Ancient Greeks were fascinated by the subject. The myth of Pro-metheus (‘Fore-sight’) and Epi-metheus (‘Hind-sight’) laid the foundations. Prometheus, principal champion of mortal men, warned Epimetheus not to accept any gifts from the gods. Epimetheus ignored the advice and was persuaded by Hermes to marry the luscious Pandora, who brought with her a jar filled with all the world’s evils. She foolishly opened it, leaving only hope inside for mortals to cling to. Greek tragedy was full of men like Oedipus, convinced they had got things right, only to find they had got them tragically wrong.
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