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The young man in pain said: It is not reasonable, Doctor, to repeat train accidents, and every time we promise and promise, the media scream and the minister resigns and threatens heads of government to eliminate negligence and corruption, then we go back to sleep until the time of the new accident.
A sad young woman said: I no longer have hope, everyone lies and everyone beautifies and our country endures. What are we doing?
Another young man yelled at me: Doctor, we talked about hope, optimism, self-confidence, and print and visual media. All of its titles are achievements, but the reality says the opposite of what we see on TV and read in newspapers, we believe who.
I said: a little bit on me guys. You are affected by the train accident – and I am with you – which extracted from your conscience the pain for which you blame everything. So let’s not just get carried away by feeling and talk with the mind and be open to solutions instead of lamenting about the recurring event in different forms. And let me ask you and diagnose together and find solutions together.
My first question to you: Do train accidents happen only here, or can they happen anywhere in the world despite all their progress?
The answer was quick. Yes, accidents happen in planes, trains and cars, but why do they happen, the rates of their occurrence, and their causes that make us angry in Egypt?
My second question: Do you think that what we are suffering from (and the train accident for example) is a financial problem, an administrative problem, or is it a problem of building a qualified person for a job and the system in which he works?
Respond all at once: manage and qualify. I said, while I am with you, that money can be obtained, but management and professional and psychological rehabilitation need construction and require a cumulative vision and application over the years.
Now, my next question to you is: Is today’s job for a modern train driver the same as yesterday’s job for a train driver years ago?
Everyone replied, interrupting each other: Doctor, the train is like a plane now, and the railway station is like an airport, and we deal with the matter like the movie Bab al-Hadid by Youssef Chahine Zaman. This is a form that has ended and developed in the world.
I said: So we agree that the railway and transportation system in general is changing and our needs of the people responsible for it are changing, and what we have seen from the “interfero” with the train driver is that we have not changed to suit development.
The sad young woman said: We buy devices and computers and do not care about the programs that run them. We buy modern trains and do not deal with their interlocking installations and advanced mechanisms.
I said: What do you think, what is the approach to reform, buying new trains and modern computers and building high-rise buildings, mosques and churches, or building people who are able to use modernity, who are able to integrate digital civilization into their conscience, absorb it to add to it and then be able to create it, like it or better than it.
They said: It is clear from the question, Doctor, as if you are putting the answer in our minds.
I said: I do not mean that, but I assure you that education, training, management, governance and accountability are an integral part of developing life and avoiding many disasters.
Another young man said: So who is responsible, Doctor? Are the people responsible for their ignorance, and does the government have the right to blame citizens, as it does all the time, for their passivity and ignorance?
A clever young woman said: Huh, we choose why a government if it will blame us. We choose a government to lead, make plans and provide funding to implement them efficiently, and we choose a parliament to question it, not drum it on and applaud for everything it does.
The rebellious young man said: We listen to the speeches of the leaders, and we are prepared that citizens have to find solutions. Sometimes it is prepared for us that state agencies and institutions want to tell us that they understand and the people are ignorant, and that the citizens are the problem before the government because they do not appreciate what it is doing. Parents are the problem of education, and slum dwellers are the ones who invented it as if they were not forced into it, and illiteracy reaches a third of the population because they flee from education, and tuk-tuks and service cars fill the streets and cause accidents, not because the government did not provide respectable public transportation, but because the people are wrong!!
I said with a smile: I understand your anger, but whoever stands in the circle of decision-making is not like the one who stands outside it. But I also agree with you that the country is not governed by good intentions and honesty only, but rather by the efficiency of governments and institutions, which cannot have the capacity and efficiency without the governance of their administration and without accountability, so that the people get the best who governs them.
Making and implementing decisions positively affects some and negatively others. No government can please all the people. So democracy was the best solution almost, not absolutely. Imagine a government that comes with a 51% majority, which means that 49% do not agree with it. Democracy does not only mean the majority winning the government, but also the minority’s respect for the results of choices.
The minority, regardless of its size, must convince the people of its approach, not with health, nor with revolution, nor revolution, but rather by enlightening the people about alternatives and convincing them of them so that they can take their votes in the next free and honorable elections.
One of the young men laughed and said: If the elected authority closes the doors to the other opinion and considers the opposition an enemy of the country and is dealt with with this logic, what should we do?
I said: Here comes the importance of stabilizing the rotation of power within a constitutional framework that makes the continuation of any political situation impossible, even if it is the greatest and most successful system, and allows free participation in choices.
Believe me guys, these things do not happen to the country by decision, but they need experiments, success and failure, then stability and a belief that the peaceful transfer of power is the key to safety and development, because it is the only case in which the best practices accumulate and the worst of them disappear and disappear.
But we return to our first topic, which is the train accident, in which I think you have answered your questions.
The answer lies in the compatibility between science, knowledge, human building, training and harmony with the change of data that is happening very quickly these years. Welcome to the management system of the ground plane, which in the past was called a train, and its different leaders in knowledge and qualifications, and its management that is digitally responsible for its entanglements. Management governance and human development is the solution.
And education, education, education, gentlemen, is its entrance.
