Showery thoughts

Sitting in the train, gazing at the snow-white mountains in this sunny mid-winter day, I was caught suddenly in this dreamy conversation that I now recall. He -I do not know who he really was, as I said I was suddenly drawn to this guy talking- started talking: “Wahrnehmung/ Wahrnehmen” or Perception or just to perceive. “You know? If you cut it down it literally means the word true/real and the verb to take”. I look at him questionably, wondering even if I was part of this conversation, looking for any other witnesses of this invasion of my privacy (no not really, I was actually eager to hear what he have to offer). He continues: “Now, as a person who likes to play with words and make links between one in a language and one in another, I am always triggered to find the logic, the basic engineering, the, the architecture ingenuity behind a language, I really find this German word amazing.” Rubbing the back of his head, playfully passes his hand on his dark yet graying unruly unkempt cu...

هذه القصة لا تمت للواقع بصلة وأي تشابه بين الشخصيات الموجودة فيها وبين الحقيقة هو من وحي خيال القارئ. في عالم موازي على ناصية مجرة تبعد عننا بحوالي ساعتين بالدائري المجري الخامس جلس صديقي الفضائي ببزته الخضراء اللزجه يحكي و يخابرني عن قصص السابقين كعادتنا في إنتظار الأتوبيس المجري الذاهب إلى مجرة البلبل المعوج، طفق يحكي لاحساً من بوظته: مجدي عبده الملواني مجدي، طالب ثانوي في مدرسة أهل الخير الحميدة الداخلية النموذجية الحلزونية الكشفية المهلبية تحت الطبلية. و في المدرسة ناظر مدير مهمته إدارة شؤون المدرسة و التأكيد على سير العملية التعلمية و الأخلاقية و الأقتصادية في المدرسة. و بما إن الناظر  تتلمذ و تعلم و ترعرع تحت منهج الكشافة العظيم، كان طبيعي أن معظم الطاقم الاداري للمدرسة و متخذي القرار يكون ذو خلفية كشفية مبجلة، لم لها من سبق كبير في إدارة المدرسة عبر أجيال بعد تحول المدرسة من نظام الملكية الشخصية لإدارة محلية طحينية. و دة في حد ذاته شيء مش غريب ولا جديد في إدارة المدارس، ف من المتعارف عليه أن كل ناظر مدير بيأتي بأصدقائه و معارفه أصحاب نفس الاتجاه الفكري الإداري ...

He asked me: “Do you think conformity (as in following certain thought process, idea, fashion, be it scientific, social or religious) can be considered as brain wash or thought control?”. I was baffled, I did not know what to say, and at that point, I did not want to argue, to be frank, I just wanted to lay back and listen to this disturbed fading image of a man. He continued: “Media, advertisements, religious and political institutions all bombard us unconsciously with certain images, and ideas that makes us believe that this is the norm, this is the right, this is how should it be, and this is what you should believe. You do not have to think anymore (and of course not critically), just follow blindly, because they know better, and they want the better for us. Follow the heard, or you will be shunned, and you do not want that, it became inherited in us that we think we want to be part of this cog, we believe we want to belong, to be liked, to strive for others acceptance. It b...

Ok don't know where to start from. What is life? Which life? One self's life? The life of all people all together, all living things?  The thing is, everything is connected, one can not consider his life alone. I believe or I like to believe that decisions we make affect all of us all together, one way or the other. Still, what is life? My own idea will be picturesque as I like to visualize things. For me life can be just sitting in front of a lake in a sunny winter day. It can be the moment when you step at the highest point of a mountain. It can be free roaming in the night at a very highly populated city. It can be the feeling of a gentle breath of fresh air, it can be the sound of the ocean. The traffic in the morning, and the complete utter silence of the night. It can be the good well deserved night sleep. It can be the break of a sweet while runing across the street while singing like a euphoric teenager. It can be a kiss goodbye. It can be a flight back home. It can be ...

Do you think a totalitarian big brother regime that controlls big data and information with the new networking engineering possibilities as 5G will be the ordinary model for governance?  Data is both a national security as well as a personal matter. Preserving it should be constitutional on the national level, and people (the owner of the data) should be the only controller of it, making sure it is well preserved.  With the upcoming 5G and the great bandwidth and between 40 to 100 times faster then 4G possibilities it offer, your control over your private information and data will not be any more a privilege, you are out their virtually naked. Of course, 5G will bring us great advantages that we would have never thought, convienance like you never imagined. Yet with this futuristic fantastic era we are about to embark, comes a great responsibility of protection our data. The problem is, when governments install a nation wide firewall -as a way of national security and personal...