I think one of the sayings that I like the most is the one that says: There is no worse blind than the one who does not want to see. And in the case of us who somehow participate in the discussion of what is happening in the country, it works perfectly.

We spent weeks – actually years – diagnosing Ecuador. Lately, at least since the prison massacres, the murders, the increase in drug seizures, there is no mention of anything else related to security in most of the information. Only football competes with him and, of course, the political crisis of the Government, which has its peaks. For now, it is the impeachment of President Guillermo Lass for the Flopec case, after the scandal of the great godfather, the fall of the PSC in the last elections, the persistence of UNES to return Correa and pardon his trials, the release of Jorge Glas, etc., etc.

In the heat of lively discussions, debates and diagnoses, one more catastrophic than the other, which are multiplied by the networks, sometimes without explaining the context of any statement, little is said about solutions, alternatives for the state in the short term. ., medium and long-term. And when it ends, the temptation of those who moderate the discussions, on more than one occasion, is to stay in the diagnosis, and even in the discrepancies that could have been generated, so that it remains floating in the environment.

This, undoubtedly, only shows that we do not fully understand that in a polarized country, where discussions are held without proposing solutions, it is easier to sow chaos. And that it is easier for authoritarianism to settle in chaos.

We also fail to understand that if we oversaturate or intoxicate the audience with content, we only confuse them because they simply cannot process the information anymore. Let’s add to that that we all have our own communication bubbles in which we receive only the content that the algorithm thinks we like. And there are a lot of reticent people who crowd DM chats with what they think people should applaud or dismiss. With an infoxed population, misinformation is easily installed. And we already know what misinformation causes: blows to democracy.

Even less do we understand that when we get used to the fact that the way politics is processed, in public debate, is to highlight differences, deepen disagreements, we tell people – especially young people – that politics is that, promoting disagreements, when what is needed, informed citizens are able to find alternatives and solutions to the country’s challenges.

It sounds very romantic to suggest that we look for solutions and reverse the public debate, it is. But thinking about it, about solutions, about education, is what will make us leave the country of pussies we live in, where we can’t see beyond our nose, and therefore we don’t think that construction takes a lot of time and we’ve already lost too much.

Let’s talk about politics, but stop demonizing it, giving opinions for the sake of polarization. Let’s try to find a common language and promote it. (OR)