Multiple crisis in Lebanon: Afterward of the mass upheaval
Posted by: adonis49 on: January 16, 2020
Multiple crisis in Lebanon: Afterward of the mass upheaval
A country in such a multiple crisis is no longer a country at all: It’s a collection of futile individuals, considering themselves bigger than institutions, acting like cynical clowns on TV shows, each of whom is looking for personal cover and passing the buck from one to the other.
Few saw the warning signs and now we are in the middle of the tragedy.
The few coming months will be very complicated but what about the afterward of the few coming months, what about the post-disaster era?
If we don’t reimagine another future, if we don’t rethink the meaning of economic, political, ecological, financial and social practices in the wake of the crisis and beyond,
if we don’t reconsider existing values and endorse new ones,
if we don’t agree together and look to implement a new project for Lebanon, i
f we don’t unite (against the sectarian “leaders” and the Ponzi scheme financial system), then we will be doomed to relive the pre-mass upheaval (7iraal) situation.
Can’t go on with business as usual, this pre-disaster with the ones who fabricated the disaster, taking advantage of it and privatizing whole swathes of activities of general interest in an extremely brutalized and impoverished society at bargain prices.
Another economy is possible, another democracy is possible, another social contract is possible,
Another “vivre-ensemble” is possible, another leadership is possible, another governance is possible, and alternative values must be endorsed.
The value of life over the value of money; the citizenship over clientelism; the sovereignty of the state over the joint-violence of illegal arms and money;
The ethical banking over bank predation; the rights of depositors over the profitability of banks;
the responsible regulation by governments over the non-rule short-term financial speculation, led by greed rather than long-term profit-making, that took the overall Lebanese economy to the brink of catastrophe.
Meanwhile, an independent crisis management team is needed to damage control and we must go on with the revolt.
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