{"id":2095,"date":"2026-02-25T07:30:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T07:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.foroconvivenciacordoba.org\/bars-and-convivence\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T18:42:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T18:42:28","slug":"bars-and-convivence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foroconvivenciacordoba.org\/en\/bars-and-convivence\/","title":{"rendered":"Bar Counters and Convivence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Le Nouvel Obs<\/em> (Paris, 20 February 2026) offers a refreshing compass: what if democracy also depends\u2026 on a bar counter? In \u201cWhy we should raise a glass with our neighbours\u2026 and not only them\u201d (<em>Pourquoi il faut trinquer avec ses voisins\u2026 et pas qu\u2019eux<\/em>), V\u00e9ronique Radier draws on a study by Hugo Subtil (University of Zurich) that overturns an all-too-convenient reflex: everyday conversations \u2014sometimes messy, sometimes contradictory\u2014are not necessarily breeding grounds for the worst. They can, on the contrary, defuse radicalisation.  <\/p>\n\n<p>The finding is striking: when bars disappear, support for political extremes rises year after year; when a place reopens, the trend gradually reverses. As if the simple act of bumping into one another, talking, and disagreeing without disqualifying each other brings oxygen back into the social body. Here, democracy is not an abstraction: it is built in concrete spaces where we learn to deal with others.  <\/p>\n\n<p>This echoes the central idea of the book <em>La tiran\u00eda de las naciones pantalla<\/em>: our \u201cscreen-nations\u201d promise connection, yet often organise a gentle separation \u2014comfortable isolation, risk-free conversation, and community without otherness. We choose people like us, avoid friction, and replace neighbours with algorithms. But democracy is not a newsfeed: it is the art of manageable disagreement \u2014the art of convivence.  <\/p>\n\n<p>V\u00e9ronique Radier says it without moralising: the less we know one another, the less we talk, the more we come to hate each other. So yes, let\u2019s raise a glass. Not to escape the world, but to return to it, at the table, where words become shared again.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democracy is not only built in institutions, but also in everyday spaces like bar counters. 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