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The revolutionary young man said: The memory of January 25 has come back and we are experiencing pain, Doctor, for the loss of our hope and the end of our dream.
I said: O my children, pain and suffering polish souls and make charcoal “almas”. The lesson is the accumulation of experience and learning from mistakes. Not crying over what has passed or wailing over what could have been.
The January 25 Revolution, in its early days, was an uprising in which history will write a lot of purity and a true expression of the people’s desire for dignity, pride, and change for the better.
Another young man said: I saw you on the first day of the revolution on television with Mona El-Shazly, and in the presence of Dr. Osama Al-Ghazali and others, she says: We have to listen to the youth, not attack them. We have to absorb their anger and their hopes, not punish them, and that encouraged me, and you were one of the leaders of the ruling party, to go out into the square with a positive energy.
The sad young woman said: But we were deceived by many of those around us, who came as a trainee in Eastern Europe, who came out as an intern in Eastern Europe, and who came out as an intelligence agent. This was a battlefield, Doctor. We did not ask ourselves who would organize, enter, exit, divide and write slogans, and I only wanted the pleasure of human presence with the Egyptians in expressing our desire to change the delay and freedom that I thought was bound. It is as if we made a revolution to guide it to political Islam and then go back to how we were.
Another young man said: Hours I feel that the people are being punished for their January revolution, so that it will never have the like of it again.
Another said: Do not forget that chaos has led to Egypt losing billions, development has stopped completely and stability has collapsed for years, and we do not want this to happen again.
One of those around me rose up and said: Huh, we were wrong in this way, I was 24 years old at the time of the revolution and now I am over thirty, I spent now finding a decent job with a bigger salary, and an apartment in which I live, and I have a small family that I can support, and I don’t want revolutions and I don’t want uprisings .
I smiled at them, saying: Everything you say is right and wrong at the same time. January 25 was a people’s uprising, and it had to end with a fundamental change in the way the country was run. The lesson that I learned is that revolutions happen when there is no hope of bringing about movement and change that touches the reality of the masses’ need through legitimate means. Revolution is, in the academic definition, an illegal act against an existing regime. If it succeeds, the system becomes criminal, accused and guilty, and if it fails, the revolutionaries become criminals and outlaws. Heroes and criminals change places because only the victors write history.
The reality of life that I believed in and my belief was confirmed after January is that sometimes we need a shake and a wake up, but we don’t need demolition and chaos. Good governance allows for change from within, with a declared vision, and allows for the peaceful transfer of power without revolutions.. Good governance listens to those who disagree with it, and dialogues with those who have a different point of view, and it needs experts and political advisors to do this for him and for him. And the security institutions must protect that, not prevent it, because they do not protect a specific existing system or a person in person, but rather protect a state in which regimes change.
Another young man said: But we are losing hope little by little, and the groups of young people who came close to power took the chance, and those who did not are thwarted.
Another young woman with a political tendency and affiliation with a political party said: “The Future of a Homeland Party, whose celebrations are attended by conservatives, enjoys the support, funding and backing of state agencies, as if it were the ruling party.” Indeed, many of us feel pressure to join it or we will lose the advantages that the state offers to young people.
I said: Listen to me and listen, that the political vacuum is a great danger, and if it is not filled by a conscious political movement and parties that can obtain seats in Parliament, it will be filled with chaos or political Islam organizations with their various wings, and we will return to the zero point. Any void in society will be accommodated in some way. When the state failed in urban planning, the void was filled with informal settlements, and when the level of education decreased and the state made a mistake in making the certificate, not knowledge and skill, the goal, the void was filled with private lessons and corruption, and the educational equation entered the curricula of extremism and the human structure was disrupted, and when the state did not achieve and provide citizens with respectable public transportation Fulfill their needs, fill the void of tuk-tuks, service and chaos.. Thus in every field, even in our family life, if school, university and home do not fill the lives of children and youth with sports, exercise and fun, competitions and artistic and cultural activity, addiction and extremism will fill the void.
Therefore, the state’s intervention with its apparatus to fill the political vacuum at some stage was necessary and understandable, but it is a phased intervention, and it must understand that it is not sustainable, and that the balance between regulation and control requires minds and philosophy and not just procedures.
The young man who was a revolutionary and has now become a member of the Coordination, an organization similar to the Youth Organization in the sixties, and run by some state agencies to fill the political vacuum with the absence of parties and their lack of empowerment, said: Have parties become an old fashion and unnecessary in developing countries?
I said: The parties have lost their importance as a tool for organizing, mobilizing voters and collecting donations because the candidate can do these things directly through social media. There is also a decline in the importance of ideology as a framework for gathering citizens for political or social action. Perhaps the citizen’s greatest interest now is focused on the effectiveness of governance, ie the extent of achievement and response to the citizen’s demands, regardless of the ideological idea adopted by any party. But on the other hand, achieving the greatest effectiveness of governance is linked to the most efficient reaching the seats of government through a system that allows this, and is also linked to the importance of having a system of control and accountability for decision makers, and setting periods for governance to ensure innovation in thought and vitality of performance. In short, I believe that the new generation of democracy should focus on the following elements:
The effectiveness of the ruling.
– Efficiency of referees
I said: O my children, pain and suffering polish souls and make charcoal “almas”. The lesson is the accumulation of experience and learning from mistakes. Not crying over what has passed or wailing over what could have been.
The January 25 Revolution, in its early days, was an uprising in which history will write a lot of purity and a true expression of the people’s desire for dignity, pride, and change for the better.
Another young man said: I saw you on the first day of the revolution on television with Mona El-Shazly, and in the presence of Dr. Osama Al-Ghazali and others, she says: We have to listen to the youth, not attack them. We have to absorb their anger and their hopes, not punish them, and that encouraged me, and you were one of the leaders of the ruling party, to go out into the square with a positive energy.
The sad young woman said: But we were deceived by many of those around us, who came as a trainee in Eastern Europe, who came out as an intern in Eastern Europe, and who came out as an intelligence agent. This was a battlefield, Doctor. We did not ask ourselves who would organize, enter, exit, divide and write slogans, and I only wanted the pleasure of human presence with the Egyptians in expressing our desire to change the delay and freedom that I thought was bound. It is as if we made a revolution to guide it to political Islam and then go back to how we were.
Another young man said: Hours I feel that the people are being punished for their January revolution, so that it will never have the like of it again.
Another said: Do not forget that chaos has led to Egypt losing billions, development has stopped completely and stability has collapsed for years, and we do not want this to happen again.
One of those around me rose up and said: Huh, we were wrong in this way, I was 24 years old at the time of the revolution and now I am over thirty, I spent now finding a decent job with a bigger salary, and an apartment in which I live, and I have a small family that I can support, and I don’t want revolutions and I don’t want uprisings .
I smiled at them, saying: Everything you say is right and wrong at the same time. January 25 was a people’s uprising, and it had to end with a fundamental change in the way the country was run. The lesson that I learned is that revolutions happen when there is no hope of bringing about movement and change that touches the reality of the masses’ need through legitimate means. Revolution is, in the academic definition, an illegal act against an existing regime. If it succeeds, the system becomes criminal, accused and guilty, and if it fails, the revolutionaries become criminals and outlaws. Heroes and criminals change places because only the victors write history.
The reality of life that I believed in and my belief was confirmed after January is that sometimes we need a shake and a wake up, but we don’t need demolition and chaos. Good governance allows for change from within, with a declared vision, and allows for the peaceful transfer of power without revolutions.. Good governance listens to those who disagree with it, and dialogues with those who have a different point of view, and it needs experts and political advisors to do this for him and for him. And the security institutions must protect that, not prevent it, because they do not protect a specific existing system or a person in person, but rather protect a state in which regimes change.
Another young man said: But we are losing hope little by little, and the groups of young people who came close to power took the chance, and those who did not are thwarted.
Another young woman with a political tendency and affiliation with a political party said: “The Future of a Homeland Party, whose celebrations are attended by conservatives, enjoys the support, funding and backing of state agencies, as if it were the ruling party.” Indeed, many of us feel pressure to join it or we will lose the advantages that the state offers to young people.
I said: Listen to me and listen, that the political vacuum is a great danger, and if it is not filled by a conscious political movement and parties that can obtain seats in Parliament, it will be filled with chaos or political Islam organizations with their various wings, and we will return to the zero point. Any void in society will be accommodated in some way. When the state failed in urban planning, the void was filled with informal settlements, and when the level of education decreased and the state made a mistake in making the certificate, not knowledge and skill, the goal, the void was filled with private lessons and corruption, and the educational equation entered the curricula of extremism and the human structure was disrupted, and when the state did not achieve and provide citizens with respectable public transportation Fulfill their needs, fill the void of tuk-tuks, service and chaos.. Thus in every field, even in our family life, if school, university and home do not fill the lives of children and youth with sports, exercise and fun, competitions and artistic and cultural activity, addiction and extremism will fill the void.
Therefore, the state’s intervention with its apparatus to fill the political vacuum at some stage was necessary and understandable, but it is a phased intervention, and it must understand that it is not sustainable, and that the balance between regulation and control requires minds and philosophy and not just procedures.
The young man who was a revolutionary and has now become a member of the Coordination, an organization similar to the Youth Organization in the sixties, and run by some state agencies to fill the political vacuum with the absence of parties and their lack of empowerment, said: Have parties become an old fashion and unnecessary in developing countries?
I said: The parties have lost their importance as a tool for organizing, mobilizing voters and collecting donations because the candidate can do these things directly through social media. There is also a decline in the importance of ideology as a framework for gathering citizens for political or social action. Perhaps the citizen’s greatest interest now is focused on the effectiveness of governance, ie the extent of achievement and response to the citizen’s demands, regardless of the ideological idea adopted by any party. But on the other hand, achieving the greatest effectiveness of governance is linked to the most efficient reaching the seats of government through a system that allows this, and is also linked to the importance of having a system of control and accountability for decision makers, and setting periods for governance to ensure innovation in thought and vitality of performance. In short, I believe that the new generation of democracy should focus on the following elements:
The effectiveness of the ruling.
– Efficiency of referees
At all levels of management.
– Oversight and accountability independent of the executive authority.
– An independent and effective justice system (the real revolution must take place here in this field).
An education and culture system that gives citizens the ability to choose the best.
One of the young people interrupted me, saying: Why does democracy fail in developing countries and succeed in other countries?
I said: Democracy fails in most developing countries and ends with a military or religious rule. There is even a belief that poor, ignorant peoples need dictatorship to live, which I see as a mistake and a sin, because in democracy there is a lot of dictatorship that people need, but it is the dictatorship of the law and not the individual. The alternative to the chaos arising from freedom without the application of the law is not the dictatorship of an individual or a group, but rather the endeavor to accompany them with just laws that apply to everyone. Democracy, with the two wings of the transfer of power and the rule of law, is the alternative that peoples should seek, and not surrender themselves to chaos or group dictatorship, as unfortunately happened after the January revolution.
I am confident, young people, that the coming years will witness a positive dialogue between all parties, because Egypt is beautiful and possesses the ingredients of a civilization whose metal appeared at the beginning of the January 25 revolution, and on June 30, and because it fills me with confidence that the country’s leadership, as its awareness of the danger to Egypt’s security appeared, has awareness To see the importance of the transition to the modern civil state that we seek, and the peaceful transfer of power, and that this is not done by repeating the same political mistakes while waiting for different results.
Guys, our beautiful country needs your positive energy, and it needs participation and construction in all its shades, and the picture is not complete with one color, but with multiple colors.
– Oversight and accountability independent of the executive authority.
– An independent and effective justice system (the real revolution must take place here in this field).
An education and culture system that gives citizens the ability to choose the best.
One of the young people interrupted me, saying: Why does democracy fail in developing countries and succeed in other countries?
I said: Democracy fails in most developing countries and ends with a military or religious rule. There is even a belief that poor, ignorant peoples need dictatorship to live, which I see as a mistake and a sin, because in democracy there is a lot of dictatorship that people need, but it is the dictatorship of the law and not the individual. The alternative to the chaos arising from freedom without the application of the law is not the dictatorship of an individual or a group, but rather the endeavor to accompany them with just laws that apply to everyone. Democracy, with the two wings of the transfer of power and the rule of law, is the alternative that peoples should seek, and not surrender themselves to chaos or group dictatorship, as unfortunately happened after the January revolution.
I am confident, young people, that the coming years will witness a positive dialogue between all parties, because Egypt is beautiful and possesses the ingredients of a civilization whose metal appeared at the beginning of the January 25 revolution, and on June 30, and because it fills me with confidence that the country’s leadership, as its awareness of the danger to Egypt’s security appeared, has awareness To see the importance of the transition to the modern civil state that we seek, and the peaceful transfer of power, and that this is not done by repeating the same political mistakes while waiting for different results.
Guys, our beautiful country needs your positive energy, and it needs participation and construction in all its shades, and the picture is not complete with one color, but with multiple colors.
