Modern Egypt

The new pharaohs

An Egyptian assesses his country

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Doctor Pen

Although I didn't read the book, but reading your article I agree with you that the author may be over-simplyfing the current situation in Egypt. It seems like a wishful thinking to believe that the change can be easy, just because it is a logical result of the chaiotic situation in Egypt. The current political system has now reached a conclusion that its servival can only be secured with an iron grip on everything, hence any change will only come with very bloody explosions, and with unpredictable consequences. It is unfotunate that most people think that only Mubarak and his family should be removed to achieve the desirable change. Realistically, a whole thick layer of political and buricratic figures need to be removed from the government machinary, since all of them have grown in the same atomshere that lead to the current desperate sitution that we see now in Egypt. If you are in doubt, just look at the difficulties that Iraq has after the removal of Saddam Hussain.

John 3:16

Egypt will rise again once the socialist rhetoric of Nasser vanishes for our mindsets. He injected this idea that government can, and should, dominate every aspect of our lives to ensure that everyone gets treated equally, and that there will be no social injustice. This idea back fired. Egyptians now assume that the government should house us, educate us, cure us, employ us, feed us and solve all our problems, while we sit back and relax. Mama Government. To make matters worse, greedy politicians sought to expolit this weakness by making unrealistic and destructive promises in order to gain power and prestige. They changed the laws to make it almost impossible to fire the most incompetent and useless employee, hence perpetuating this pathetic ethos that government will take care of us while we dont work. Our work ethic is horrible in this country.
Have you ever been to a government institution in Egypt. It's shocking!. Pathetic human beings who do nothing all day but complain that their wages are too low, while they walk around with the most expensive mobile phones to preserve their 'prestige'.

We don't believe in the importance of education anymore, because what's the point of going through all these books if mama government can hire you, pay you, while you do nothing.

This country will never get back on its feet unless its people take a long, hard, and honest look at them selves, and release that if you want a good life you are going to have to work really hard and fight for it.



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