This is my advice: Do not envy or gloat. Control your feelings. Use your rights first, and then your mind to know exactly who is your enemy. Determine if your enemy is the President, the government, the party or the businessmen and the intellectuals. Perhaps you are your own enemy, but you do not know or you do not want to know.
Pause for a while to think and understand. Like our poet Salah Jahin said, use your feelings if you are in the heart of a matter or if you are a victim. Claim your rights through the law and not with your own hands. Take time to understand. Do not be negative lest you die frustrated, but do not be too positive lest you explode. I do not know the definition of ‘political and social mobility'. It is a phrase that sounds good and looks good on paper. I believe it means to describe an active political and social atmosphere that is supposed to lead to some change. But we have been detecting such mobility for a decade now without seeing any change whatsoever! So where did it go wrong? Let us look at the elements of that mobility. They are the regime, the elite and the citizens (with fate being the fourth element). And let us consider the relation between them. You will find that they have all somehow agreed not to confront each other. Each of them prefers to stay safe where it is. Confrontation between the citizens and the regime does not exceed the shields and helmets of the Central Security soldiers. And confrontation between the elite and the regime does not go beyond the pages of the newspapers and the talk shows on TV. (In fact the elite can be divided into those who represent the regime and those who represent the citizens, with the government picking up the tab in both cases). The relation between the citizens and the elite is quite confusing. It is neither a confrontation nor a clash, but rather lack of confidence on the part of the citizens, and trading with the citizens' rights on the part of the elite. So which of them is the victim? You may say it is the citizens. I would agree, but at the same time say that they chose to be the victim. They put themselves in the sandwich for others to eat. And I ask: Do they not know that the regime and the elite despise them and leave them to be robbed and killed without bringing anyone to account? How many such cases were hushed in the drawers of the NDP Policies Secretariat? How many managed to flee with their money and with the evidence of their crimes?
If the citizens know that but do not do anything about it, then they deserve that regime and those elite. But if they do not know, I will cite for them Zorba the Greek, the hero of the famous novel by Kazantzakis. Zorba said: You want to open the eyes of the people? Let the people alone, Mr. President, for what will they see if they opened their eyes? Do not open their eyes. If their eyes are opened, what will they see? They will see their misery. So just let them continue dreaming, unless you have a better world for them to see when they open their eyes. Do you have such a world for them?
