From Fidias to Makarios and political decay

Makarios Drousiotis’s fundraiser on the one hand, Fidias Panayiotou’s shorts on the other, and in the middle, the mob rule of social media. The ingredients of an equation of political and social confusion, at a time when substance is being lost amid the power of image and the intensity of reaction.

The public agenda is increasingly being shaped by the noise generated by the swarm of online reactions and the force of self-important monologues across the various social media platforms. A society...