Hoping for a break in the pre-election routine

[Illustration: Loukia Kattis]

There are two parallel universes. On the one hand, a digital world operating at the speeds of TikTok or Twitter, standing ecstatic, enthusiastic or skeptical in front of innovations in artificial intelligence, harnessing the possibilities of ChatGPT, trying to perceive the changes taking place in everything from the environment to employment. On the other hand, there is the world of politics, largely distant, which, in pre-election periods takes on a forced familiarity, walks the streets and squares, smiles, shakes hands, talks to young people, shopkeepers, addresses the diminishing crowds, and makes promises - that's the main thing. It promises the best for the country's economy, for citizens' incomes, for taxation, for security, for health, for education.

The first universe is modern, born of the 21st century, with whatever that entails. The second universe has no real age...

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