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Dr. Badroy writes in Al-Masry Al-Youm
On the “Dreamers of Tomorrow” cafe..the government and the country
The elegant young man always said: I read, Doctor, to Robert Fisk, the famous British writer, and one of those who know us well, wondering: Why are Arab houses so clean, while their streets are on the contrary?! The reason is that the Arabs feel that they own their homes, but they do not feel that they own their homeland.
I said: Did you know that Robert Fisk, one of the most famous journalists in the world, lived in our country for thirty years and still lives in Beirut? He was the British Independent’s correspondent in the Middle East, and he is one of the few Western journalists who oppose the policy of America and his country Britain in our country, and he has a famous book on this.
The question remains important, which is: Why does the citizen not feel his ownership of the streets, factories and shops of his country, so he leaves them dirty and destroys them at every moment of anger, or if the guard or policeman is absent from them?!
In my opinion, this is due to two reasons:
First: We confuse the concept of homeland and the concept of government, so we consider them one and the same. The government is a political administration for a short period of the nation’s life, and no government lasts forever. While the homeland is history and geography, and the soil that contained the bones of the ancestors, and the trees that drank their sweat, is thought, books, customs and traditions. That is why every person has the right to hate the government if he wants, but he has no right to hate the country. The biggest calamity of confusing the government with the homeland is that we think that we take revenge on the government if we destroy the homeland, as if the homeland is for the government and not for us.
Then I added: What is the government’s relationship with the street in which you and I walk, with the university where your brother, sister and son will study in the future, and with the hospital in which my wife and family are treated?! Things are not owned by the one who manages them, but by the one who uses them. In fact, in this case, we take revenge on the homeland and not on the government. Governments are punished in another way if we really love the country.
The second young man said: The culture of public ownership is non-existent in us, doctor, so that it seems that we suffer from a kind of schizophrenia, for the one who keeps the toilet of his house clean is the same as the one who dirties the public toilet, and the one who keeps the table in the house is the same one who carves his name on the university seat, and the father who He wants his son to maintain order in the house, the same one who refuses to stand in line waiting for his turn.
I said: Once again, my children, the government is not the homeland, and our problems with the government are not solved by sabotaging the homeland. The people who take revenge on their homeland because their government is bad do not deserve a better government. Our promotion is not measured by the cleanliness of the courtyards of our house, but by the cleanliness of the public garden after sitting in it. If we contemplate our situation, we will find that we are the enemies of ourselves, and that no one harms our homelands as much as we do. The saying is true: a person does not need clean streets to be respectable, but the streets need respectable people to be clean.
A girl from the dreamers said: The same people, when you travel abroad, protect the garden and the street, even though we do not see a policeman or security men everywhere like us.
I said: There is a well-known theory of a French philosopher named Le Pen, which has been proven correct. He says that a person’s actions are affected by the actions of the crowd around him, and he finds himself behaving like everyone around him, positively and negatively. Rather, he says that an individual’s personality is affected and changed when he is in the herd. Let us give an example of demonstrations, where the individual finds himself speaking out and may hit, break and burn, although this is not his nature, but the environment around him psychologically pushes him to do the same. And vice versa sometimes, if the demonstration is led by a sane stream that cleans the ground, sings, and moves with the music, you will find the crowd doing the same action even if this is not his personality.
Indeed, the professionals of overturning government systems from the intelligence services use this method to create impressions and put addresses that sometimes lead the crowds. Even in developed countries, when electricity was cut off from New York in a year and thieves spread looting stores, crowds of citizens joined them doing the same thing.
Another young man said: But the government that has been entrusted with managing the country remains responsible for the actions of its people, through the media that leads it to influence public awareness and teach its utmost importance in creating conscience, and services to citizens that must be provided to satisfy their minimum rights before moving to achieve their hopes.. and young people flee To other countries for this reason, and when the opportunity arises, he expresses his anger.
I said: That is true, but home, my son, is not a hotel in which you live. You leave it when it does not provide you with good services. The government comes and goes, and if the rule lasts for a ruler, what happened to him in the beginning.. Everyone goes and the homeland remains. Come change within the framework of the law and the constitution, but preserve the homeland. The government is not the homeland, and the ruler returns to the masses of the people at most every 8 years.. Remember that this constitutional amendment is the main gain of the people’s uprising in January 2011, because it was finally decided that the government is not the homeland, but rather the one charged with managing it for a specific period of time, and the matter is up to Each one of you to choose who governs him. Let us preserve the homeland, and every building in it, its history, streets, gardens, schools, universities, theaters and institutions, because we own it and because it will remain for our future generations.
