Pen Thoughts

A fish was swimming one day in a cool pond at the high western mountains of Lebanon, happily and peacefully. A frog came along and asks the fish: "Heyy, how is the water". The fish look at the frog surprisingly and blankly, responding: "What's water"! If you live in Lebanon, you don't need wittiness to understand who's the fish and who's the frog might be. Yet it is always surprising how resistant some Lebanese on seeing clearly the true colours of our crisis; thus, are completely blind on who hold the responsibilities. It could be blindness, collusion of interests and/or a mixture of both. In any case, this never stop being a perplexing dilemma for Lebanese citizens who have freed themselves from the slavery of sectarian autocrats, or to whom have never given their knees. Even when it comes to advanced liberal forces who have fought against the tyranny of neighbours, they have fallen, as their pride did, into the cracks of the sectarian sy...

I was born in Lebanon in 1981. until the day I started to gain consciousness about my surrounding social paradigm, I learned two things. Our reactions as a cultural entity highly depend on emotions. We can be stupid and illogical. A lot of things changed during my 38 years of living in this shit hole. but the abovementioned facts never changed. In fact, it got worse. We believe silly lies. We discuss meaningless subjects. We do useless jobs, though we hate it, we never try to change. We say whatever it comes from our one cell brain without owning any responsibility. We are fearless and full of fears at the same time. Utterly sectorial. Full of empathy and careless at the same time. We have to admit firs that our downfall, the current one more precisely, is a direct implication of our destructive mindset, contradictive and irresponsible behavior. Lebanon, this is what we are, own it

Written by Oswaldo De Rivero From the book:  The Myth of Development The non-viable economies of the 21st century "The social exclusion of human beings is not the same thing as the natural depredation occurring in a food chain, where one animal species preys on another species, as is the case with lions and zebras. The human groups that are preyed upon are not from a different species, and do not always behave like zebras. A human group that feels permanently excluded from the bare necessities of existence, preyed on by the market and by modernity, will finally turn upon its predators, resorting to varied forms of treatment ranging from delinquency to terrorist fanaticism." "The law of the jungle cannot continue to be applied among men without serious consequences for the whole community. Our genes, which are programmed for survival in society, begin to protest that we are being excluded, that our family or social group is in danger. Then, when we reach ...

"The only tie existing today is compassion and the ethical duty of a handful of persons, but this cannot create a global ethical conscience in a world under the influence of a predatory logic" It is something i red for Oswaldo De Revero way back and still lingering on my yellow papers. in the confusion and the wondering of the movement future طلعت_ريحتكم #بدنا_نحاسب #  that gave us so much hope, i remember the wise words Oswaldo mentioned. it kept me thinking, will we ever be able to succeed in building a republic in Lebanon? As well, the world order doesn't look much promising. it is clearly not going toward an environmental neither economical sustainability, and its failure is unavoidable, without a vital and comprehensive commutation. it is very difficult times we are living!!

https://liberland.org/en/about/ For all the Lebanese or Syrian Refugees, this is the country you should go for. no government, no taxes, no politics, just a bunch of people living together in 10 square km  grin emoticon All you have to do now is convince Croatian authority to let you go there !!  grin emoticon Wait, if Liberland was not welcoming enough, you can always  go to "Nowheristan". my greetings to Michel Elefteriades !!

كتير عنا شغل ووعي تنبني جيل حضاري وانساني. مثلاً حدا سأل عن عمال سوكلين كيف كانو يجيبو عمال ب200$ من الهند ومن سيريلنكا و ينيموون متل البهايم 20 واحد بكل غرفة من دون تخوتة؟ لأ ما حدا كان يفرق معو، المهم الطرقات عم تتكنس! هل هالموضوع كان انساني وليش نحنا منقبل في ؟ بعض الشباب يلي نظموا الحراك وعلى رأسن  Imad Bazzi  كانو ينزلوا على سجن الأجانب في الامن العام تحت الجسر تيوثقوا الانتهاكات الغير انسانية بحق عمال من السودان ومن سيريلنكا ومن الفيليبين  Farah Salka (يمكن هونيك تعرف على م رتوا من إسرائيل). هول شباب بناضلو حتى ما يكون حقك سحسوح  و حتى يكون عنا أبطال مش وزراء وحتى ما يدفع الحمال بسبينس مصاري عشين يشتغل  Abir Ghattas وحتى يكون حقك تروح على حديقة عامة هي اصلاً ملكك  Nizar Ghanem رح يصير في كتير اخطاء وأنا أول واحد رح ينتقد بس شباب وصبايا 29 آب هني اشرف الناس عشين هيك عم بنزل على كل مظاهرة بيدعو الها. ‫#‏ طلعة_ريحتكم‬   ‫#‏ بدنا_نحاسب‬   ‫#‏ مستمرون‬

 العالم ما حست بالحياة الزبالة يلي عايشيتا بلبنان والوضع المؤريف إلا لما شافت الزبالة عم تقيلا علا الطريق! اي مظبوط، هيدا خرا الي كنا عم نيكلو اي مظبوط هيدي رشوي عم بتدفعا اي مظبوط معظم لي بشتغلو بالقطاع العام فاسدين  اي مظبوط بتسوق متل الاجدب ماكأنو في حدن تاني على الطريق، بلا احترام وبلا اخلاق اي مظبوط انت مستزلم ومتعصب وطائفي وملتوي وازعر اي مظبوط ما بهمك غير نفسك ومن بعد حمارك ما ينبت حشيش اي مظبوط خنوع، ومستسلم  شو بدك نحطلك على الطاريق تنتفض على كل هول كمان يا شاطر ؟؟!!!