When an Economy Fails and a Lockdown De-rails
Locking down a population that resists those efforts is like trying to hold water in your cupped hands, barely half the water survives the journey to your mouth! This is our reality in Lebanon today, a population that refuses to cooperate with its discredited government, from political masters to civil servants all, our government is hollowed out and denuded of all authority but it still exercises considerable power. This wide public refusal to cooperate with government and governance, focuses all public disaffection into a narrow dense beam of revulsion and anger, some directed at government some at the people. The populace seems to be saying to government: “As men and women of peace we cannot challenge your power, but we shall assail your authority wherever we find you trying to assert it!” In the short term, a matter of weeks or months, states of emergency and lockdowns can work to quiet down the boiling angry people, but beyond those weeks and months, no government tool of power