As I try to understand the surrealism we live in Lebanon, I ask him over and over again, “Were things worse in the civil war or now?” He would answer me without hesitation, “Now it’s worse. The last 15 years, every year was worse than the one before, I’ve never seen anything like this in my life! At least in the war he had money with people. Corruption has always been there but today it is open and shameless, it has become a way of doing things; On your eyes, merchant.”