The enthusiasm demonstrated these days while the country gears up for the June 7 elections, by all means pivotal, is unbelievably active and loud and frequent to the extent that it makes wonder about the notoriously industrious and resourceful Lebanese people, and about where their priorities lie.
For the past year or so, every single day, rallies in all regions and cities and villages in Lebanon take place where a political leader comes and inflames the public with a fiery speech about why they should elect him and not the opposition because the opposition leaders are traitors and embezzlers and agents and and and .
People attending those rallies hail and cheer and shout in obvious and blatant brain washed stupor. And they are all the same. It is always about the person. Man worship. Among all the religions and sects, as if we don't have enough already in Lebanon, we still look idolize humans as well to increase the list of revered persons on our list. it is more choice for all.
what is behind this cheering and the immense readiness to be followers? Why do people go out of their way to attend a political rally under the searing heat? what are they expecting? nothing is the answer and nothing is what they get. It is pure idolization and man worship. It is pure absent mindedness.
The country is floating on water, we have more rivers, lakes and streams than anybody cared to quantify, yet our houses have no running water and our trees and forests burn every year and to this day no one figured out what to do about it.
We can organize a huge political rally in very short notice, say one day before, and a million people will come. But a chronic water problem which has been plaguing the country for over 50 years does not produce one shy mini demonstration.
It is not important, we think, because we are buying our water from tankers, so why bother.
For the last 50 years we suffer from the lack of steady electric current, not one demonstration broke out in the last 50 years demanding to know who is responsible for this or to improve the situation. Also not important, we have generators. It is noisy and causes pollution, yes, but it is private and unique. Not public like a demonstration to combat the problem. And besides, what are we going to wear if we go to a demonstration? who will see us there, what if they were wearing the same clothes.
The irony. The pain of daily desecration. The shame.
So, what will happen after the elections? People in power will re-shuffle, but they would still be in power, and we will still have no electricity and no water.
