On Political Attempts (Part One)
The Decemberists Are Here
“Revolutions are the locomotives of history.”
Karl Marx
There is nothing more inspiring for a change seeker like me, than the image of hordes of people gathered around a certain cause, a belief, a will to change! What I saw on the first of December, what I see everyday on the street, is a reverberation of consistent stubbornness! I am a man who advocates the toppling of all the governments of the world. Not just the Lebanese government. But I have also grown to be a man of reason. I have been staying up all night, thinking, and rethinking, to the point that it makes no sense not to jot down what I have to say, and all of you have to hear me, Not just me, but a wide spectrum of people who I hope would feel the same.
On The Decemberists:
I will keep referring to those who attended, and are attending the massive demonstration on Friday, and the continuous sit-in as the Decemberists. It would have been great to see that amount of people getting together to protest the inflation, the increase in Taxi prices, the increase in academic institutions’ tuition fees, the increase in so on and so forth. Yet they are rallying to topple the current government.
GREAT! I would be glad to participate in any activity to topple any government in the Middle East, yet if we take a more comprehensive approach to why they want to topple that government, one is to be disgusted! Sarcastically enough, most leaders in that opposition are the major titles of corruption, lies and deceit. One of them, however, is marketed as the Holy Spirit, god on earth, a leader who drives his followers through charisma and faith! To that, Nietzsche would reply: “A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.”
It seems like the beginning of a revolution, I don’t mind! But any revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution! (Lenin). Where are the revolutionary situations? They do exist. People are willing for a stronger state, a better socio-economical welfare state. The educational sector needs change, the extreme poverty on the outskirts of our cities are in dangerous levels..etc. And what is exactly the opposition aiming for? Greed and Power! What are the slogans of the “revolutionary” demonstrators? Most are sectarian and racist! (same as those of the governments’ supports by the way!)
People are still arguing on who had more people on the streets. Not that they realize that each time a demonstration in this country (under these conditions) has more people, it becomes more and more alarming! I would not trust nor have faith in a demonstration according to its numbers, when a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one, as Nietzsche argues!
What is to be done, when you have teenagers instead of politicians, in a country crippled by wars, economic break-downs, theft, tribalism and the like? The problem is that no reasonable person would be able to take sides in the ongoing political duel.
The Decemberists are here, they are the new revolutionaries. I had criticized the Cedars Revolution for the same exact reasons, and now it’s the Decemberists turn. Are we really encompassed by the same exact politicians who exchange power like a viscous circle? Where is the alternative? What is to be done?It is almost Christmas, a showdown between Cedars and Decemberists is about to escalate. The Cedars are stronger during colder times, and Decemberists only survive during the cold.
Does it always have to be winter in this small country of ours?
Wajih R. Ajouz
NB: This is the first of many articles I will be writing concerning the current events.
Part Two shall be On Democracy
