I am sitting here at home contemplating the state of the world today. Actually the current state of Egypt. My part of the world.
It saddens me to see how horrible Egypt and Egyptians have become. I know that this partially stems from the fact that I have had my fill and more of harrassment. I have heard too many stories of harrassment in Egypt. I have been cheated by too many people here. I have been taken advantage of and for granted by too many Egyptian men.
I am over the novelty of taking the corruption of the Egyptian government to my advantage. I do not think it is a fun game anymore.
I miss the days of the night in shining armor coming to my rescue. Independence is great. Rescuing myself is great.... but the knowledge that Egyptian men were great is something I miss.
I miss feeling safe.
I feel sad that the morals, values, and ethics of Egyptians have gown down the drain.
I think I see this clearly at work.
I teach... I spend my day with children who are figuring out life and the world. I feel that people are generally good. I feel that kids are always innocent at first. Evil is something they learn. When they are evil I know that they have learned it from somewhere... most times it is from home. They come to school with the ideas, behaviors, attitudes that they see at home.
When these kids take advantage of eachother, steal from one another, or beat the crap out of eachother to solve a problem... I know that this is what they are getting from their home.
The fact that this does not alarm the school or their parents makes me feel like Egypt has a dim future.
The fact that nobody is trying to save these kids and teach them the right values breaks my heart.
I try.. I try to teach them accountability, ways of solving problems, less vulgar ways of expressing themselves. I try to teach them to be good. Sometimes it feels like I am fighting a losing battle. Right now I do not feel strong enough to fight.. and not motivated enough to convince myself that this battle will change them.
What happened to the good people? What happened to the morals and values of the population?
I know that life in Egypt is hard. I know that many Egyptians do not see a bright future ahead. I know that at times Egyptians feel the government is blind to their struggles... but is that what has changed the population as a whole?
Then how do we explain the successful Egyptians that have no morals or values? I do not think the only problems Egyptians have come from the government?
I do not think that sexual frustration is reason for all the harrassment that happens.... because I think that there are sexually frustrated men out there that don't harrass women. I know there are a lot of sexually frustrated women out there that are not harrassing or molesting men.
I do not believe that money is the root of all evil... because harrassment and money don't come together. Men are not grabbing women in the street for money... they are doing it for other reasons that I cannot figure it out yet. Kids are beating eachother up at school.. and rarely is money the reason.
What is it that happened?
What is the root of this?
When will the population see the problem and actively try to change it?
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
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I was just having a similar discussion with my mother about this. It's sad how people of this country have declared themselves the center of the Arab world, the brainy ones, the smartest people in the world... and yet we still have that shit.
People abroad are mostly atheists and yet they have a value system. I know it's not because religion is flawed. It's because people don't wanna read about it anymore. They also don't want to read about values or the things that actually matter. But that's a universal problem so that can't be it.
To teach or not to teach... and you obviously know what I'm talking about. Who has the right to teach, to make the statement, the stand; to tell people right from wrong. Every being on Earth knows right from wrong, even animals, but somewhere along the road we have faded out the line in between I reckon. Our society role models in focus, are Saad El Soghayar, "Doctor " Hala Sarhan, and a zillion names on the list of the politically clever.
I'd say if people actually want to get better, they have to prove it and earn it.
I completely agree. I do not know why other people have value systems that they abide by and here I feel we do not.
I used to think it was because of the system, knowing that if you do something wrong you will be punished. I am not sure if I still believe that.
I think that in Egypt we depend on religion too much to guide people to do the right thing. I also feel that nowadays this cannot be counted on because so many people are not following their religion and also we have so many people misinterpreting religion. It just makes it too confusing to know what is right or wrong. All that plus the fact that most people can get away with doing anything leaves us in a society where people will try to do anything they can get away with.
Sad! ;o(
How do you earn and prove that you want to get better?
How to earn and prove it? Well, for starters earn your living, aim for the top, and bury all the hangers.
If everybody "earned" their living we'd be the richest country in the world.
Earned their living as in the right to be alive...?
or do you mean living as in the financial "living"?
And what should happen to those who don't earn their living?
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