“The Truth, the Imagination, and the Hope” By Hossam Badrawi

“The Truth, the Imagination, and the Hope”

By Hossam Badrawi

Most people assume that if they can see or touch something, taste it or smell it, then it is real. Their knowledge of reality is based on the traditional senses of the human body, because our mind creates this perception according to its perceived senses, which leads to the question: is the opposite true? Is everything that cannot be grasped or perceived by our senses considered unreal and non-existent?

The irony here is that the opposite is not true. Imagination may be more real than reality at times, or at least equal to it, as what we call “reality” is nothing more than ideas or fantasies that we consider reasonable and acceptable.
I am not touching here on realities of other dimensions that we are not engineered to interact with but it does exist.

Within our dimension, there is now a direct concern about all the facts presented to us in the media, both in terms of how they are presented and how they are discussed and analyzed. Do not imagine that the distinction between facts and fiction is easy for the audience.

I studied the concept of truth in the eyes of the public and how it may be “manufactured” by a certain group and planted in people’s minds. All science fiction movies or dreams, or even those who used science to come up with theories and then try to prove them, were imaginary at some point, perhaps there cannot be a reality or truth without being preceded by imagination.

Before the internet appeared, and before the discovery of the genome and before we were able to use the capabilities of our minds in the way it is happening now, I read in an article by the famous Egyptian writer Abbas Al-Akkad a sentence that means: “Nothing passes through the human mind unless it can be achieved one day, as long as the idea has passed through your mind, there is a possibility of achieving it”.

As a scientist, I began my research career studying the scanning electron microscope in the late 1970s at Wayne State University in Michigan. At that time, seeing the cell was available, magnified tens of times, but only in two dimensions in the regular microscope. However, the three-dimensional vision, magnified hundreds of thousands of times, seemed like magic, after it had remained distant even from the imagination, but science made us see what we had not even thought of.

Politicians are now more involved in the matter, after planning events, they now have the knowledge and ability to employ the social sciences and technology to master, create, and predict movements of the masses. There used to be what is known as the butterfly effect theory and the theory of falling dominoes to calculate future probabilities based on the scientific reality for the perceptions of these politicians. However, knowledge has evolved, and reality can now be created by integrating ideas with modern technology, social media, and non-traditional media to develop the lives of humans on Earth outside the gradual natural evolution of ideas that occurred over hundreds of thousands of years.

Consciousness is a mental state through which one perceives the reality and the truths that occur around us through the individual’s connection and interaction with the environment in which they live. The more the intellectual output encompassed by the human mind, along with the various perspectives relating to different concepts revolving around life and living issues, the more their awareness and perception of themselves within the framework of the existing entities and events around them increases.

What if all of that became manufactured and did not represent reality, but rather a reality produced by human and artificial intelligence minds, , creating a reality that begins as unacceptable and evolves to draw a new, acceptable consciousness?

Substance is made of vibrating strings, (string theory ) that appears as matter or waves ( dual existence) ie : we and the universe are energy materialised into matter , and if we were not present, matter would not exist as we perceive it .
This applies to both the sciences and social aspects, and because reality depends on the mind’s perception, the perception of the truth of everything is interconnected, and that all knowledge is a translation of imagination at some stage. Politics and sociology are not different in this regard.

Gustave Le Bon, the French sociologist and anthropologist, worked in 1895 on studying the collective mind of the crowd and illustrated the existence of a new entity emerging from the integration of people as a community, where they together create a magnetic field of the group for various reasons, such as “mimicry,” which is the conformity of individual behaviour to become part of the collective formation, seizing each individual in the group with its ideas, beliefs, and personal values.

Le Bon detailed three primary processes that influence crowd behaviour: anonymity, suggestion, and contagion. Anonymity creates a sense of loss of personal responsibility, making the individual more primal, emotional, and unrestrained while also giving them a feeling of invincibility.

Contagion refers to the spread of specific behaviours within the crowd, such as acts of rioting, vandalism, or merciless killing, as seen in medieval public executions. One person initiates, and others follow, exhibiting paradoxical behaviours such as sacrificing personal interests for collective benefit or participating in public singing and street cleaning, as witnessed in some youth protests before the hijacking of the revolution Egypt 2011.

As for suggestion, it is the mechanism through which contagion is transmitted. Strong chants make the unconscious mind a factor, rendering the crowd homogeneous, flexible, and receptive to the propositions of its most influential members, such as those leading the march or demonstration, who can guide and direct the group with their loud voices.
These leaders have become well-trained in the present time, and the course of any large-scale demonstration can largely be predetermined by their leadership.

With the use of today’s technology, gathering people and influencing their consciousness has become a science and an art, with unrestricted communications being accessible and investigable.

It no longer requires protests to create mass awareness among groups of people. With the flow of information through the internet and the availability of electronic platforms and YouTube websites hosting vast numbers of videos containing assumed facts and diverse news, every person is portrayed as either a hero or a villain. The blending of illusion and reality has become deeper than ever before. With this massive volume of leaks, people reconsider what they perceive due to exposure to conflicting and sometimes contrived news, perhaps leading to a loss of trust in anything presented to them.

The difficulty now lies in affirming the truth amid a sea of deception, rumours, claims, lies, and counter-propaganda. You cannot know what is a conspiracy and what is a coincidence, and where the truth lies.

The battle now is about who can manipulate awareness to achieve their control and shape the consciousness of those who possess wealth and weapons. Who is the most intelligent, skillful, and deeply conscious who can lead the world to achieve their goals? And where do we stand in that?

Einstein and others proved that the universe, in its vastness, is interconnected and interrelated through the science of physics. Max Planck and his colleagues affirmed quantum physics truths at a sub cellular level, stating that matter is originally energy as we said. and that there is a fundamental unity to everything. If we consider science as an accumulation of innovations and inventions to find solutions for humanity, and if what has been discovered in recent years exceeds all that has been uncovered throughout human history, and if we have some wisdom to see the future, we must conclude that humanity has all the opportunities to create new energy, provide food, eradicate ignorance and poverty, and even attain happiness. Unfortunately, we are under the control of villains, eager to exert control in the name of armies, religion, or nationalism. Short-sighted politicians ignite conflicts and wars, possessing a dark imagination to turn the world into a battleground where the perpetrator becomes the victim and the criminal speaks in the name of God, and where racism becomes selective and human rights become a mere illusion.

As for me, with my optimistic genes, culture, and contrary knowledge, I see that humanity has the opportunity to create paradise on earth, and like me, many do, but they are isolated, and sometimes fearful of the tsunamis of darkness from humans whose imagination sees nothing but genocide of peoples to gain control, wealth, and power.

The battle of humanity should not be left in the hands of the darkness, and we must illuminate the light and not surrender. The demonstrations supporting the rights of the Palestinians against the will of their governments have given me some hope