Lebanon's election-time blues: breaking the corruption loop is doable!
Like in most closed loops, there is little that can change our corrupt system from outside it, while within, the cosy, incestuous and interdependent set of relationships continue to function as per usual, despite loud and broad popular outcry. Corruption is an automated system that is regulated by feedback, and feedback from within the closed system at that. Most Lebanese are unknowingly or knowingly part of this system and help preserve it by voting back into office the same old failures, or failing to vote at all, which is as bad as voting for the wrong people. But most people are good people. Yes, even in Lebanon, most people are good. But they are powerless and generally clueless about their own latent power to change the status quo, which makes them easy prey for the scheming and well-experienced political legacy parties. It is the mercantilist mindset that founded and sustains most Lebanese political parties today. They are essentially businesses selling dreams of better times ju