On the 6th day of Xmas.... the Greeks' "father authority syndrome"

...school's OUT again.

No, not really, but some Athenians are demonstrating all over Athens in memoriam of two years since the untimely death of a school boy from (unintended, we would like to believe) police fire.

Some time later, in similar fashion, a policeman died and two more were injured during an attack on their precinct.
No Athenian seems to find that fact particularly moving. No demonstration.

Speculating on this I come to an obvious conclusion: Greeks need something or someone to demonstrate against. I think Greeks feel oppressed by their everyday existence and demonstrating is their way of getting some temporary respite from the unbearable burden of being Greek...
So, in Greece, we revel in actions of defiance and love to demonstrate against oppression. Accordingly, when there is no visible oppression (because political authoritarianism there is in Greece) and there is no visible cause, people feel obligated to fabricate a cause. And there will always be an obliging ruffian somewhere to provide an excuse for a cause! Hence the demonstration today.

On the other hand, Greeks do not seem to have developed a national social feeling: the idea of one standard (one law, one yoke, etc) for all does not seem to enjoy much popularity in the country.
In this light, perhaps the best would be many official causes: one for each Greek interest group. There are many of those -- literally, one for each citizen. They are sanctioned by Greek TV, probably Europe's most propagandist, and weak and change-averse governments.

The most vociferous of these interest groups are typically the least populated: left wingers and 60s communists. There used to be the 70s socialists (this guy for example) but "social" in Greece is now just a byline for a political party. Indeed, most if not all of the erstwhile "socialists" have become stinking rich and can't be bothered with demonstrating. They no longer feel "oppressed". This man leads the bunch.

So wealth is an antidote to demonstrating. Hence we conclude that those demonstrating are not, of themselves, wealthy.

But what is the underlying reason for which Greeks will demonstrate at any occasion that offers itself?

One reason would be that Greeks are romantics, ready to support the cause of anyone who, in their eyes, is less fortunate than themselves. For the more fortunate, they would still demonstrated -- but against rather than for.
I believe there is a common denominator to all this activism, and the Greek oppression mania: I am oppressed therefore I am.

I think Greeks are heavily into Bogey-Man resistance: it's a psychological state whereby adults, primarily male, never manage to accept, endorse and subsequently get over the paternal authority. Thereby they act like thwarted adolescents throughout their adult life unto their middle age: most demonstrations, seen through this point of view become palatable.
In getting to the streets, most Greeks are demonstrating against the paternal authority they never got over. I.e. they are shouting against their fathers. It is called congenial father syndrome (CFS). It is a congenial matter, perhaps there is a drug for it?

A second hellene - neurosis is the random feeling of injustice; another name for this pathology is greco-victimism syndrome (GVS).
The short description follows:
Whatever happens, wherever, the Greek is a victim of an injustice. Swindling. This is called neohellenic - swindle syndrome: NSS

Put another way, "Just deserves" never are!