This post was not written by me. It was written by Mohamed Magdy
Fahmy, a friend and occasionally a brother. It is his thoughts
and writing. I owe him that much.
I’m pretty sure that most people reading this post have watched,
read or at the very least heard about the great achievement that our military
has accomplished (a cure for AIDS, HCV, Diabetes, Cancer and every virus known
to humanity for that matter). Of course there were different reactions to this
announcement; skepticism, sarcasm, outrage and some people bought it and
believed it to be true.The reason for the controversy is mainly the way the
“epic” discovery was presented “soba3 kofta”, “kan 3andak AIDS w ra7” and the
mere fact that they stated that the device can cure anything. But at this
point we must ask ourselves a few important questions: How come a very
large segment of Egyptians (who are well educated) actually believed this
garbage and even went all the way to defend it? Why did the military release
such an absurd announcement that was full of scientific errors, misinformation
and lack of any supporting evidence that a person like myself who has only
studied Biology at high school was able to spot out easily?
Let’s analyze the people that are defending this device or at the
very least believe it to be true, but let’s exclude illiterate people and
people who suffer from any diseases that the so called doctors claimed can be
cured by the device. I pity these people the most because they “want” to
believe and currently their dreams are being manipulated. But what about the
educated segment, there is an obvious polarization in stances. The educated
people who are defending the device are needless to say pro-Military, pro-Sisi
for President and as we recently discovered pro-any thing the military throws
at us. These people refused to consider the whole issue from an analytical
point of view and decided that the military knows all. The military is saying
the truth and even if they weren’t “ya 3m msh moshkela” that was a quote by a
person that I managed to convince that the whole thing was bogus after a few
days of endless arguments.
This ladies and gentlemen is a great sign of a Polarized Egypt in
the making and it’s not about the Muslim Brotherhood vs. The Military. It’s
going to be “You are either with us or against us” and being with us means that
you will cheer, clap for and praise anything we do whatever it is even if it is
“Treating AIDS by turning it into Kofta” and you will not under any
circumstances question anything we do. Now consider this for a moment; if we
had a polarization in opinions among the educated and elites in society on
something as absurd as “C-Fast, I-Fast and Complete Cure” which was obviously
complete garbage from the way it was presented not to mention all the
scientific bullshit it had. What do you think will happen when the
military officials or the regime decides to pass a controversial law, forge the
elections...etc.
We’ll have the same situation we have right now, people arguing
with each other and that controversy is exactly what the regime aims for:
Controversy; it’s the perfect solution, we already have an illiterate base that
doesn’t question anything, all we need to do is to polarize the educated people
and push them to argue with each other (balance out each other) and we’ll just
keep running things the way we want. This theory has been put to test and has
succeeded the fact that we had a controversy over “Soba3 Kofta AIDS” means they
have succeeded.
What we are witnessing now is a phenomenon known as “Perceptual
Screen” and it is a very common phenomenon in US political behavior where the
perceptual screen acts as glasses that a citizen wears that makes him look at
any issue from the eyes of his party (in our case the military), this screen
makes the person take in distorted and irrational positions, stances and
decisions without any analysis or reviewing of facts. Sounds familiar? Today we
have many people that support anything the military does under the argument
that they saved us, they know what’s best for us...etc. Although a lot of
these people stood against the same issues in the time of the MB and “Bassem
Youssef” is the most obvious example of that. This perceptual screen will
inevitably lead to a disaster in any upcoming elections in the future and this
time the damage will be beyond repair.
My advice is to stop arguing with these people, you need to let
them find the truth on their own. Tell them to use the internet for something
useful for a change, to look, explore and decide on their own. Arguing with
them will only make them more extreme, more radical and more reliant on the
perceptual screen. If we don’t help these people analyze in an unbiased way,
then don’t come complaining about all the bad conditions we are suffering and
how the revolution has failed. These people need to realize that, and you need
to help them.
