… and I’m Back

Today over lunch my friends and I started discussing the recent developments in Saudi Arabia with the women driving movement. I noted how pathetic it is for our society to debate such a natural basic human right, while some other societies have established transparent democracies, and the rest are uprising against their dictators. I guess Darwin was right, societies do evolve in civilization, and as much as it hurts me, I highly doubt there’s any other society that is more backward and uncivilized, than ours.

Religious authorities were successfully instituted, and maintained, by the government in the country— the main reason behind all our civil problems and backwardness. People blame “the people” for our slow (or nonexistent) progress, but if you consider all factors that lead to peoples’ resistance to change, you’ll see that they all stem somehow from a policy or organization instituted by the government. Or rather, no matter how resistant to progress or change society is, if the government wants to force it upon them and make a difference, it could. (Consider the cases of Saudi Aramco, KAUST, etc. I won’t elaborate on that point too much.)

Our society is not only backward for debating a basic human right, but looking at its reaction to the revolutionary movements across the Arab world, and the uprisings in Bahrain specifically… it’s absolutely hopeless. I once had hope of making an impact and developing it, but a society that does not even recognize an unattained right of democracy, or blames a just movement for liberty on sectarianism (which is an extremely cheap attempt of propaganda to curb the uprisings or turn them into a civil war rather than a revolution against authority) is in the lowest of lows on the standard of civilization, according to our world’s modern standards. And seeing that this cannot be changed, because it’s all governmentally instituted, leaves me with desperation. What can you do when your society is pathetically subnormal and you actually can’t do anything about it?

And that was my rant for the day.

Rev.

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