This article offers a sociological analysis of contemporary Greek society through the lenses of moral sentiments and cultural practices, highlighting the dialectic between trauma and the reduction of anomie. It traces Greece's rapid modernization following World War II and the Junta period, characterized by a transition toward a consumerist democracy where traditions and modernity coexist in a complex manner. The author invites us to consider Greek society not simply as a victim of trauma but as an actor capable of managing this transformation through subtle “social bricolage,” embodied by political identity assertion, the structuring role of the family, and the persistence of a traditionalist imaginary. These palliative mechanisms help contain social malaise and mitigate the emotional fractures induced by modernity, thereby making Greece an exemplary case for understanding the cultural and affective challenges inherent in the passage to modernity.