Notebook
The Generator
The generator is not a workaround. It is a constitution in diesel form.
The state fails to provide power. A private man fills the darkness. The private man becomes indispensable. The politician protects him. The citizen pays the bill and thanks the person who made reform impossible.
This is Lebanon in miniature.
Every private substitute for a public good becomes a political relationship. The generator is electricity, but also school, hospital, court, militia, passport, water, security. The failure is not empty. Someone lives inside it.
