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Fact, fantasy and hope
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Hossam Badrawi
Most people assume that if they can see or touch something, or taste it or smell it, then it is real. Their knowledge of the truth depends on the traditional senses of the human body, and this is because our mind creates this perception according to its perceptive senses, and thus a question comes to mind that says: And Is the opposite true, is everything that cannot be grasped or perceived with our senses considered unreal and non-existent?
The irony here is that the opposite is not true. Imagination may sometimes be more true than reality, or at least equal to it. What we call “truth” is nothing more than perceptions or fantasies that we consider reasonable and acceptable.
Now, there is a direct apprehension about all the facts that are presented to us in the media, whether the way they are presented or the way they are discussed and analyzed, and do not imagine that separating facts from fiction will be easy for the recipient.
As a politician, I was studying the perception of truth in the public eye and how it might be “manufactured” by a group and implanted in people’s minds.
All science fiction films or dreams, or even those who used science to come up with theories and then tried to prove them, were fictional at one point. Perhaps there cannot be reality or truth without it being preceded by fantasy.
Before the advent of the Internet, before the discovery of the genome, and before we were able to use the capabilities of our minds in the way we do now, I read in an article by the famous Egyptian writer Abbas Al-Akkad a sentence that said what it means: Nothing passes through the human mind that cannot be achieved one day, as long as the idea passes through your mind. There is a possibility to achieve it.
As a scientist, I began my research life studying the scanning electron microscope in the late 1970s at Wayne State University in Michigan. At that time, cell vision was available, magnified tens of times, but only in two dimensions in a regular microscope, but three-dimensional vision, magnified hundreds of thousands of times, seemed like magic. After it remained far from even imagination, science made us see what had not even occurred to us.
Politicians are now more involved in the matter. After they used to plan events, they now have the knowledge and ability to employ social sciences and technology to master, create, and anticipate the movement of the masses. There was what was known as the theory of the butterfly effect, and the theory of falling dominoes, to calculate the possibilities of the future from the scientific reality of the perceptions of these politicians, but now knowledge has developed and reality can be created by combining ideas with modern technology, social media, and non-traditional media, so that human life can develop on the globe. The ground is outside the scope of the natural, gradual development of ideas, as has happened over hundreds of thousands of years.
Awareness is considered a mental state through which reality and the facts that are happening around us are perceived, through a person’s contact with the environment in which he lives, and his contact with it, and the more the intellectual crop contained in the human mind increases, in addition to the different points of view that this mind contains, which It relates to various concepts that revolve around life and living issues, the more his awareness and perception of himself increases within the framework of the assets and events around him.
So what if all of this becomes manufactured and does not represent the truth, but rather a reality produced by human and artificial minds and intelligence for groups of people, and with it they create a reality that begins with being unacceptable and develops to create a new, acceptable awareness?
Matter is vibrating strings, energy, and if we did not exist, matter would not exist. This applies whether in science or social aspects, and because truth depends on the mind’s perception, the realization of the truth of everything is linked to each other, and that every science is a translation of imagination at some point. Politics and sociology are not different.
In 1895, Gustave Lebon, the French sociologist and anthropologist, worked on studying the collective mind of the crowd and explained the existence of a new entity emerging from the merging of people together, where they are together. A magnetic field arises from the combination or for other reasons, such as “identification,” which is the identification of individual behavior to become a part. From the collective formation, which seizes from each individual in the group his opinions, beliefs, and personal values.
LeBon spoke in detail about 3 main processes that influence crowd behavior: anonymity, suggestibility, and contagion.
Anonymity gives a feeling of loss of personal responsibility and the person becomes more primitive, emotional and unrestrained, and gives him a feeling of invincibility.
Contagion means the spread of a certain behavior during the crowd (such as riots, such as smashing windows and throwing stones, or merciless killing (as we saw from the Israeli settlers with Palestinian children). One person takes the initiative, and others follow him. Reverse behaviors may appear, such as sacrificing personal interest for the collective interest, or singing and cleaning. Streets.
As for suggestion, it is the mechanism through which the infection is transmitted. Strong chants make the unconscious racist, and the crowd becomes homogeneous, flexible, and receptive to the suggestions of its strongest members. Those who lead the march, crowd, or demonstration can, with their loud voices, lead and direct the group, and these people have become trainers at the present time, and the path of any A large demonstration can be largely predetermined by their leadership.
Using today’s technology, bringing people together, working on their consciences, and preparing them has become a science and an art, as unlimited communications have made it available and achievable.
It no longer requires demonstrations to create collective awareness among groups of people.
With the flow of information over the Internet, and the availability of electronic platforms and YouTube sites for huge numbers of videos containing supposed facts and various news, making every person a hero or a villain, the confusion between illusion and truth has become profound as never before, and with this huge amount of leaks. People are starting to reconsider what they see because of their exposure to conflicting, contradictory, and sometimes manufactured news, and perhaps also because of a loss of confidence in everything presented to them.
The difficulty now has become to confirm the truth amidst a lot of deception, rumours, allegations, lies, propaganda and counter-propaganda. You cannot know what is a conspiracy, what is a coincidence, and where the truth lies.
The battle now is who can create awareness based on his mood to achieve his goals of control and shape the conscience of those who have money and weapons? . Who is the smartest, most skilled, and most aware person who can lead the world to achieve its goals? Where are we on that?
Einstein and others proved that the universe of this magnitude is connected and interconnected through the science of physics, and Max Planck and his colleagues confirmed the facts of quantum physics at the level below the cell, that matter is originally energy, and that there is one structural unit for everything. If we consider that science is an accumulation of innovations and inventions to find solutions for humanity, and that what has been done over the past few years is more than everything that has been discovered during the history of the human race, and if we possess a little wisdom to see the future, we must conclude that humanity has every opportunity to create new energy, We can provide food, eliminate ignorance and poverty, and even possess happiness, but unfortunately we are under the control of evil people, who want to control in the name of armies, religion, or nationalism. Short-sighted politicians ignite conflicts and wars, and have a dark imagination to turn the world into a great battlefield, in which the perpetrator becomes a victim, the criminal speaks in the name of God, racism becomes selective and human rights become an illusion.
My imagination, by virtue of my optimistic genes, and my culture and knowledge, suggests the opposite. I see that humanity has an opportunity to create paradise on earth, and their imagination sees the genocide of peoples in order to have control, wealth and power.
Humanity’s battle must not be left in the hands of darkness, and we must shine the light and not give up.
