In a polarized country we all lose. But is it really about extreme positions or is it a reflection of the loss of confidence in all the institutions that govern our era? Because this is not just a problem in Chile.

The crisis of mistrust in institutions is changing policies around the world. We have a paradigm that is in decline and another emerging, and when this happens, there are the great earthquakes in which the plates settle when the paradigms finish identifying their stabilizers and we rebuild ourselves.

We are in a moment of vulnerability; full break; Without surprise, we see examples such as the United States, where people say they trust Google more (38%) than their government (7%).

The solution then is for different sectors to come together and collaborate to resolve specific conflicts. Bringing together the state, civil society organizations and companies with a common goal, drawing up a collaborative agenda to solve specific problems that no sector separately has been or will be able to solve on its own, is perhaps the best recipe to meet again.

But to generate these spaces it is not enough to sign agreements; we need work agendas that identify specific local problems and that, through global and multiple perspectives, weave solutions.

Recognition will come first. Identify which interests intersect; the places where we need the other, from there we can build something common that creates solutions that provide value to all.

We need will, because we have examples. The most certain was the pandemic, which, without an efficient and decisive collaboration between the public and private sectors and social organizations, would not have been possible to have concrete measures such as vaccines, strengthened public health services, international support, efficiency, speed and measured impact. That is the power of the encounter. A very opposite place to the one we inhabit today, which is rather a fragmented, broken and wounded country.

People did not lose faith in institutions because they are selfish, extremist, individualistic or populist, trust was lost because those institutions were inefficient.