We are just as guilty for taking the bait as the Greeks. Our debt is not sustainable either and eventually the debtors are going to come a' calling either by way of taking assets, hyper-inflation, currency collapse, etc.
The Greeks, at least, weren't a balkanized nation of brain dead easily led sheep. We don't have that going for us.
Some of the Greeks...
"Greek communities have age-old survival tactics that allow them to weather storms such as World War II deprivation and natural disasters."
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“Despite the collective sense that a catastrophe of some type stares Greece in the face, the country’s strong tradition of hospitality remains intact. Mathes won’t let a visitor leave without a bundle of fresh vegetables and some “trachanas” and “chilopites,” types of local pasta his family makes by hand. Many believe the ability to help one another with food gives Karitaina, with about 30 year-round residents and 100 in the long, drowsy summer, a better chance of surviving than city dwellers coping with the same anxieties. Rural Greek communities have age-old survival tactics that allow them to weather storms such as World War II deprivation and natural disasters. They will need to draw on them deeply, as Greece’s current problems are unlikely to go away soon...”
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Given that the Appetite of Tyranny is never far removed from the Tyranny of the Appetite, I think it would be useful to understand how those survival tactics work and might be applied in the process of reforming our American Republic back into something that resembles its originally specified purpose: "TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS, governments are instituted among men".