Page 3 - MONTT LATIN AMERICAN MAGAZINE, AUGUST 2021 (English)

-Editorial-
Transformations by the Post- Pandemic
“ What commands today in the prevailing social sentiment is the desire for change, not programs and projects, and what clearly demonstrates this is that young leaders are marked in an almost irrational way as the preferred ones, leaving aside the experience of others with years of political management and a well-known reputation. Even at the risk of leaping into the void, they want to rewrite the libretto”.
By Santiago Montt, president of Montt Group
and objectivity about this new reality that was violently placed on the previous baseline, not as something eeting, but with clear signs of permanence, such as a ood that brought a solid and di erent structure that is burying the pre- existing one.
We hope that soon we can hear serious and in- depth analysis about it, that they explain to us what is happening, which was possibly postponed by the coincidence that we are in an intense electoral period, which tends to capture all the attention, without us having realizing that it is the other way around, that deep post-pandemic social transformation is pushing politics, and the emergence of young people in leadership positions in the polls. All of this seems to be the e ect of the post-pandemic and not of their preferred political programs, which are clearly elementary. What commands today in the prevailing social sentiment is the desire for change, not programs and projects, and what clearly demonstrates this is that young leaders are marked in an almost irrational way as the preferred ones, leaving experience aside from other people with years of political management and a well-known reputation. Even at the risk of leaping into the void, they want to rewrite the script, the previous one, which the majority consider obsolete, is no longer respected. It is clear to appreciate this from the result of the primaries in Chile. Majorities want uncommitted leaders, who are free to take the path that is open to them as the most convenient
As we are feeling that the rigor of the pandemic begins to subside thanks to the successful vaccination program that Chileans have been able to give us, it also begins to be perceived that we are, after a year and a half of sacri ce, facing the paralysis and slowing down of activities in a very severe way, of social capital restructuring caused by the combined e ect of the same pandemic and the immediately previous social outbreak of October 2019, a radical change in the foundations of society as a result of the initiative to rewrite the Constitution from a blank page, aggravated by a vivid experience of climate change that caused a deep and prolonged drought that a ected the country and that risks electricity interruptions. All this in the framework of an electoral environment of change of the authorities, with the important rebirth of a hard, disruptive left, and an evident devaluation of the more traditional left, which together leads us to verify a fact that has not been stressed enough that we are facing an entirely new post-pandemic world, which is a irmed on assumptions and grounds that are de nitely not those of the immediately preceding period, and that we must make a greater e ort to understand where we are entering and what are the directions in which we’re going forward. We must begin by recognizing that we have not seen our intellectuals clearly represent this phenomenon; it is missing the fact that they have reacted with the rigor and independence necessary to rationalize with clarity, neutrality
Montt Latin American Magazine p3