Ethos of disillusionment

A state of general laziness is taking over the culture of awakening and resistance.

We can explain the ethos of disillusionment that is increasingly holding sway in Nepali society by attributing it to the socio-political situation and our fight with the pandemic. The prolonged condition that requires people to refrain from making group gatherings; strictly abide by the mask-wearing mandate; reduce mobility; close in-person schools, colleges and theatres; and shut down small businesses and other establishments, large or small, gradually and quietly makes the mind too feeble to cope with the self-same situation. This condition will make people disillusioned with several things necessary for us to keep going. The other kind of disillusionment is more pervasive and complex. In this short article, I want to address the second kind of disillusionment shaping our activities and our patterns of everyday life.