When critical and analytical thought is excommunicated and minds are prevented from free thinking, questions are suppressed and freedom of thought, opinion and expression in religion, politics, philosophy and culture are suppressed, ignorance becomes prevalent among individuals, who rely on postulates and occultism, and are content to seek information from single sources.
This systematic process, when carried out over generations, contributes to chaos and demagoguery, leading to the total destruction of states and protracted tragedies in societies. In this context, hunger and poverty are at the deepest roots of social stability.
The difficulty of meeting basic needs brings about changes in the behavior of individuals, which may create a fertile environment for strife and the destabilization of peace and security, where theft and corruption are prevalent as natural consequences of insecurity.
In such circumstances, individuals’ allegiance to external actors or extremist ideologies may change, leading to the fragmentation of states and the loss of their sovereignty. This scene is clearly evident in countries such as Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Palestine, where these countries are suffering from a deep crisis in their structure, and constant attempts to strike at their intellectual and value structure, to become hostage to decisions that are not in their hands later.
Economic challenges are an important factor in creating an imbalance in societies, and the lack of basic access to individuals – housing, food, clean water, infrastructure, education, health infrastructure and services – represents a wide door for investment in chaos, terror and terrorism later.
Moreover, working to develop the intellectual, cultural, educational and ethical structure of society is not secondary, but is essential for building normal balanced societies. As Alexandra Tolstaya said, “The low level of public morality makes immoral parts of society surface, forming a perverted public opinion that justifies and even accepts crimes.”
This quote sums up the tragedy societies face, where crime, the proliferation of weapons among the public and outlaws, and immoral practices become socially acceptable in the midst of the collapse of moral values.
This opens the way for the creation of statelets within states, and the emergence of armed groups that do not respect the sovereignty of states or their laws, which threatens societal security. The loyalty of each group becomes to its states instead of the sovereignty of the ruling state, hence the concept of patriotism is distorted, and the homeland defended by each individual becomes different from the homeland of the other.
Perhaps the homeland becomes loyalty to oneself, to one’s own interest, and to the interest of the limited group, rather than thinking about the public interest. This leads us to a distortion of social concepts and the ethics of society.
With no tacit collective agreement among individuals on them, division, fissures and gaps erupt, and the parties begin to antagonize each other, conflicting with each other in the war for power and the struggle for survival.
The members of the components of the same homeland become enemies. Each fights on his fronts according to his own thought, interest and vision, without taking into account the interest of the other who shares this country. Thus, the parties disagree on everything among themselves and agree on the destruction of their countries.
RUBA AYYASH: Multimedia Journalist @ Sky News Arabia ; Master’s in Journalism, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
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