In a country overwhelmed by multiple crises, both the government and rebelling students and citizens desire a watershed moment – with the first group wanting everything to suddenly return to the way it was, while the second wish for everything to be new. In reality, the road to building a new social paradigm is a painful and slow one, and not only because there’s no one capable of articulating it politically
The road, thus, indicates silent and profound changes that unfold below the surface – without spectacle, but with comprehensive consequences.
At the juncture when we’ve gained a new prime minister, but not a clear picture of the future government’s mandate, and when we’re seeing the growth of both domestic tension and foreign political tensions that have an impact on us, it seems as though the country is convulsing and lacks a clear answer as to how to escape this almost intolerable situation. We asked our interlocutors for this edition of CorD Focus to utilise various elements of the present to discern the future that awaits us.
Despite it seeming as though the political articulation of discontent is commonplace in all such discussions, a question remains regarding how the new social paradigm we’re striving to establish will look.