Closed museums, shut out from public debate

It's not just the country's retail sector that has shut down because of the coronavirus outbreak, but also the museums. However, one cannot help but notice the relative indifference shown by the political class, the media and the public about the latter.

The pandemic has taught us many things. One thing concerns the interdependence between all manifestations of life, the multiple aspects of society and their connection with the many aspects of the economy. Put differently, the lingering health crisis has exposed the sequence of seemingly unrelated functions. A larger percentage of the population has perhaps realized that the well-being of the individual and of the family is sensitive enough to be influenced by a wide range of parameters.

In a deeply contradictory society such as Greece, where the champions of a strictly materialist understanding of life coexist with...