tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700183921884368962.post1050954081458814599..comments2024-03-27T20:43:41.891+00:00Comments on Arabdemocracy: القطاع العام وأيديولوجيا الحميرArab Democracyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17484561039671942435noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700183921884368962.post-90582402460273377912008-10-22T18:28:00.000+01:002008-10-22T18:28:00.000+01:00In relation to Asma el Assad's response to the jou...In relation to Asma el Assad's response to the journalist's question. I suspect that she does genuinely believe that she leads a humble life and is loved by the people. This is a common delusion among the elite, disconnected from the reality and surrounded by courtisans.<BR/><BR/>And as you say this state of denial is more worryingly widespread to a different extent among the Syrian intelligentsia and the bloggers themselves.<BR/><BR/>My standard answer to the question: When will things change? is When enough progressive yet patriotic and democratic voices will come together to provide the people with a vehicle for change.<BR/><BR/>We need to reframe the democratic vs nationalist debate. It isnt one. The debate is between those who believe in the people's capacity to generate a fair and happy society and those who dont. <BR/><BR/>JosephArab Democracyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17484561039671942435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700183921884368962.post-1710163512697660702008-10-22T15:43:00.000+01:002008-10-22T15:43:00.000+01:00sorryLet me make one correction for the second par...sorry<BR/>Let me make one correction for the second paragraph:<BR/>I understand the donkeys as “ those people who are comprised from the peasants from villages”, and took leadership in the Baath party ……<BR/><BR/><BR/>One more thing bothering me, when I look at the landscape of Syrian bloggers and their comments, is their denial and sometimes their adamant defense of the dictator and the status-quo. <BR/>They did not yet reach the level of accepting of other ideas and they do not imagine the existence of different views, anything different is bad and offensive or traitorous. The strange thing is that the children’s echelons in those new expensive schools spreading all over the country, are learning through the new principal of critical thinking which refuse to accept the status quo as final fact. This will lead to a new selective generation have no connection to public life because it will take ages for public schools to introduce this type teaching.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700183921884368962.post-36637456769765176122008-10-22T14:31:00.000+01:002008-10-22T14:31:00.000+01:00What you have described is true, but the question ...What you have described is true, but the question which persists is when will be change and how long this type of governing will last considering the new dynamic of world globalization. The other question is it possible will see the new bourgeois class, which is currently worse than the old bourgeois class since they do not hold any type of values other than their pride as thieves and leaders of donkeys, is it possible that next generation will take different direction?.<BR/>Additionally, I would like to know the writer opinion on the connections between those echelons in power and their donkeys, and I understand the donkeys as their servants from presents who took leaderships in the Baath party and in the administration of the public sectors. <BR/> Lastly, what is the story with “quality”, it look to me that this word is an enemy for them, why this type of socialist echelons insist on combating quality? They aim and strife for higher class but they always showing persistent on refusing quality on all levels. In the street, on the administration levels, on their organizational levels and so on.<BR/><BR/>Quality and intelligence are something they do not value at all, why?<BR/><BR/>The fascinating thing is the recent interview of the Syrian president wife interview with Italian news paper when asked:<BR/>“The fact remains that the President is described in Washington as a dictator, the head of a state which promotes terrorism. What is your answer?”<BR/><BR/>She replied: This: that I see a contradiction in what you say. What is the explanation for the fact that on the one hand we lead the life of an ordinary couple, who go out to dinner and to the theatre with friends, and to the playground with our children, who live in an apartment in a normal city district, with our children playing in the street with our neighbours’ children, while, on the other hand, the President is allegedly a tyrant, and distant from the people. The two<BR/>things cannot exist side by side. As for the President being “mysterious,” it is enough to observe, and to listen: our positions are clear, explicit, and consistent. Perhaps this very fact does not help us.<BR/><BR/>Is she out of this world, she think dictators are not ordinary human, even for her credit she did much better on the other questions.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com