The Causes Of Rationalism In A Paradise Built In Hell The Extraordinary?

Individualism is a major problem Lebanon has been suffering from in the last fifty years. Ironically, people in Lebanon do care for each other, but only if they belong to the same sector. This leads us to the main problem in Lebanon, which is Sectarianism. Frequent blackouts, water shortage, and garbage covering the cities are only minor issues in comparison. Rebecca Solnit (2010) said in her story “A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary” that citizens are not the people who carry the citizenship of a given country... Indeed, true citizens are the people who wish prosperity for their fellow associates in land as they wish for themselves. What interests me in this topic is that people in Lebanon, over the years, have learned how
Feudalism states that if you own a piece of land, then it’s all yours, with all benefits, and you are free to do with it as you please. Like in politics, feudalism allows inheritance, so people who owned a piece of land 200 years ago, are still of the same descent, like ( Jonblat) in” Shouf” and (Hariri) in “Sidon” and many others. Feudalism allowed Lebanon to be distributed to a handful amount of people that misused this responsibility for the sake of their own benefits “After a bloody 15-year civil, power and resources in Lebanon were essentially divided up among the former combatants in a system of sectarian political patronage” (Barnard, 2015). ”Sectarianism in the Lebanese case has been produced, maintained, and reinforced by an array of complex forces…” (Weiss, 2009).What Barnard and Weiss are trying to demonstrate is that people in charge all over the years became corrupted enough that their greed have prevented them from seeing the greater picture, the suffer that the Lebanese endured, and the conditions they are still bearing right now. In some way or another, feudalism served sectarianism quite a big favor. Another point of view believes that we, the people, are also partly responsible. We always blame the politicians without even realizing that change begins within one’s self before spreading to the whole society. Not realizing that our role in this multi-sector country has lead to the expansion
“As it becomes less and less commonplace to simply catalog, describe, and pathologize the ills of sectarianism, it is becoming increasingly common to situate the historically contingent and malleable social conditions that have given rise to sectarian political society, to multiple cultures of sectarianism”. The primary social condition is the one mentioned above: Unchanging allegiance to the same political figures. If we want to forget fifteen long years of massacring each other and destroying our country as well as each other, if we want to break the chains of sectarianism, we must change the leaders and commanders that escorted us to the carnage in the first