Adonis Diaries

I can testify that the vast majority of Lebanese, living in Lebanon, and acting as tolerably wealthy spend most of their time “engineering” their finances.

Fake wealth cannot be sustained, no matter how you fine tune your Ponzi schemes.

No matter what you do to hide your untenable financial status.

And it is this financial system, backed by the Central Bank, that spread this faked economy for 3 decades.

Faked wealthy Lebanese insist on hiring foreign home servants, with all the troubles and headaches of keeping them home,  and taking them to parties to help the other families in serving and washing the dishes and plates.

I can testify that only those who inherited lands and properties, and who sold them to float for a while, can still hide their precarious financial status.

Many graduate students who managed to locate a job for barely $1,000 are behaving in a mindless manner: buying a new car when the car given by their parents are fine and functional. Insisting on food delivery and spending exorbitant amount on gym facilities and skipping the physical exercise most of the time…

I can testify that Lebanese, living in Lebanon, abhor to work for a living, as Not fitting to their status.

Note: This atomic conflagration that destroyed the Port of Beirut and many quarters by the port was a waking awareness of our total bankruptcy, economically, financially, politically and social fabric and “Not Citizenship” behavior.