Out with the old, in with the junta
The Pharaoh is gone, long live the will of the people.
And I mean that with all sincerity because despite the people of Egypt achieving the impossible they still have a long, bumpy road ahead to realize all of their goals. If there is a merciful God out there, they will accomplish everything they want. I for one hope they do. The Egyptian people have an idea of what kind of state they want to live in, and it's the best idea I've come across in a long time. Can they accomplish it? Deposing Mubarak was only the first hurdle.
No, I don't think Glenn Beck and the rest of the idiots at Fixed Noise are right that the end of US/Israeli-backed colonial rule in Egypt will usher in some new, satanic-Islamo fascist commie jihadic evil caliphate. There's a good reason why the old caliphate collapsed, and that reason still exists today. The Middle East is no closer now to combining into a Muslim superpower than they were when Muhammad (pbuh) died and the Muslim world started fighting over who should succeed him. Nothing brings a movement to its' knees faster than the loss of a leader. We've listened to even "liberal" mainstream media try to find a villain responsible for the uprising in Egypt, but anyone with a brain realizes there is no such person or group to point a finger at. The movement in Egypt isn't a movement of people as much as it's the movement of an idea.
Sure, lots of people became involved in the movement in Egypt, but that is not what made it successful. The overthrow of power came about because of an idea; not a leader or a group of leaders. The supporters of the Western puppet regime in Egypt tried intimidating, harassing and even killing anyone they thought was responsible for keeping the momentum going. They managed to kill 300 and injure thousands more, but that only caused more people to come out in support of the uprising because they also wanted the idea of democracy in their country to become a reality. A concept leads the revolution in Egypt.
Leaders are easy to topple, concepts are much harder. The funniest thing I've read recently described the FBI wasting time, money, people etc. to find the leadership of Anonymous. Good luck with that. Anonymous isn't a person or even a group of people - it's a concept. Anyone on the street today can decide to be Anonymous because the concept trips their trigger. When it stops, any individual will stop being Anonymous and move on to the next thing that trips their trigger. As long as Anonymous remains a concept, it will continue doing whatever it desires and succeed at it. Anonymous has no king, Anonymous needs no king.
The concept behind Wikileaks - that information should be available to anyone interested in knowing - became compromised because a face and name became the "leader" of Wikileaks. I love the concept of Wikileaks, and I support it. Thanks to a face being associated to Wikileaks however, the idea of free information has been forgotten for vilifying the leader over his sex life and alleged criminal activities; much like the message Ted Haggard had for his followers that homosexuality is bad was compromised when his followers found out his favorite way of getting closer to God involved taking drugs and jacking other men off.
The concept of the Tea Party has been so badly damaged one of the nameless original organizers of the Tea Party told the "douchebags" who destroyed the Tea Party to fuck off. What happens when a leaderless movement based on an idea becomes riddled with astroturfing fucknuggets who could give a shit less about the idea? It's looks like this, and this, this and especially this.
Anyone can have an idea and share that idea with others. Others can either choose to agree with the idea or discard it. When enough people agree with an idea it becomes a movement. The movement carries the idea until it's no longer valid, or is destroyed when people focus on a leader rather than the idea. As long as concepts can survive the crippling effect of leaders, humanity has a chance.
Or I could be wrong, it's just an idea I have.
And I mean that with all sincerity because despite the people of Egypt achieving the impossible they still have a long, bumpy road ahead to realize all of their goals. If there is a merciful God out there, they will accomplish everything they want. I for one hope they do. The Egyptian people have an idea of what kind of state they want to live in, and it's the best idea I've come across in a long time. Can they accomplish it? Deposing Mubarak was only the first hurdle.
No, I don't think Glenn Beck and the rest of the idiots at Fixed Noise are right that the end of US/Israeli-backed colonial rule in Egypt will usher in some new, satanic-Islamo fascist commie jihadic evil caliphate. There's a good reason why the old caliphate collapsed, and that reason still exists today. The Middle East is no closer now to combining into a Muslim superpower than they were when Muhammad (pbuh) died and the Muslim world started fighting over who should succeed him. Nothing brings a movement to its' knees faster than the loss of a leader. We've listened to even "liberal" mainstream media try to find a villain responsible for the uprising in Egypt, but anyone with a brain realizes there is no such person or group to point a finger at. The movement in Egypt isn't a movement of people as much as it's the movement of an idea.
Sure, lots of people became involved in the movement in Egypt, but that is not what made it successful. The overthrow of power came about because of an idea; not a leader or a group of leaders. The supporters of the Western puppet regime in Egypt tried intimidating, harassing and even killing anyone they thought was responsible for keeping the momentum going. They managed to kill 300 and injure thousands more, but that only caused more people to come out in support of the uprising because they also wanted the idea of democracy in their country to become a reality. A concept leads the revolution in Egypt.
Leaders are easy to topple, concepts are much harder. The funniest thing I've read recently described the FBI wasting time, money, people etc. to find the leadership of Anonymous. Good luck with that. Anonymous isn't a person or even a group of people - it's a concept. Anyone on the street today can decide to be Anonymous because the concept trips their trigger. When it stops, any individual will stop being Anonymous and move on to the next thing that trips their trigger. As long as Anonymous remains a concept, it will continue doing whatever it desires and succeed at it. Anonymous has no king, Anonymous needs no king.
The concept behind Wikileaks - that information should be available to anyone interested in knowing - became compromised because a face and name became the "leader" of Wikileaks. I love the concept of Wikileaks, and I support it. Thanks to a face being associated to Wikileaks however, the idea of free information has been forgotten for vilifying the leader over his sex life and alleged criminal activities; much like the message Ted Haggard had for his followers that homosexuality is bad was compromised when his followers found out his favorite way of getting closer to God involved taking drugs and jacking other men off.
The concept of the Tea Party has been so badly damaged one of the nameless original organizers of the Tea Party told the "douchebags" who destroyed the Tea Party to fuck off. What happens when a leaderless movement based on an idea becomes riddled with astroturfing fucknuggets who could give a shit less about the idea? It's looks like this, and this, this and especially this.
Anyone can have an idea and share that idea with others. Others can either choose to agree with the idea or discard it. When enough people agree with an idea it becomes a movement. The movement carries the idea until it's no longer valid, or is destroyed when people focus on a leader rather than the idea. As long as concepts can survive the crippling effect of leaders, humanity has a chance.
Or I could be wrong, it's just an idea I have.