If something characterizes this time, it is a significant change in the ideas, beliefs and viewpoints that characterized society and the organized lives of people. Those references were not necessarily in the laws, nor were they issues of the state. They were guidelines that each person practiced, that each family lived by.

It was about loyalty and minimal trust in a neighbor, a teacher, an authority figure, a merchant.

We didn’t live looking in the rear-view mirror or systematically fostering suspicion, because fear hadn’t taken hold of us yet. It was about everyone having their own beliefs, greeting even with a gesture, respecting others, trusting the client, with necessary exceptions. People had more certainty than doubt. And it was about the fact that there were not so many “living” people, and that prestige and integrity were still valued. Judges had “majesty”, politicians deserved distrust, but not open rejection. True, his speeches were tiring, but they did not stifle hope, because there was still hope. Skepticism has not multiplied. Doubts and disqualifications did not overwhelm the media or newly created social networks.

Hero or villain…

The state was not so useless; corruption was a suspicion and an exception that had to be confirmed on a case-by-case basis. It was not, as it happens in these times, a terrible certainty, a systematic shamelessness.

Cynicism was the attribute of some bold men, and was not part of the stale air to be breathed, for, for better or worse, ethics retained its reserves and was taught at home and at school; At the university, serious issues of “professional ethics” were discussed, a topic that almost no one knows what it means now, which is why there is so much contamination, so many arguments to justify mischief. So much crime, so much crime and so much complicity.

The nonsense was also exceptional. Now that’s the rule. Exceptions are prudence, common sense, scruples. This is where the human quality is hidden, the truth is ignored, and “post-truth” is in vogue, that is, a lie.

Of course there was peace with Cora

Education for war

All these were, for better or for worse, references of one country. But a lot has changed, and the institutions have certainly entered a crisis. What kind of institutions can exist without the support of ethics, logic, sense of duty and responsibility? Can the law act alone, without being embedded in the soul of each person, without being respected? Is politics possible without a sense of service, without greatness that forces us to renounce the projects of parties and groups, if the fate of the country or the interest of the people so dictates?

Now, in the midst of this whirlwind of confusion, skepticism and fear, it is time for these and other questions to be clarified and given unequivocal answers, because the circumstances we are experiencing have put us in front of a mirror. and he put us in front of a huge challenge. The answers are not only about the country. By the way, they correspond to civil society and every citizen. (OR)