Egyptian novelist Alaa Aswani -- Seven characteristics of barbaric society

Egyptian novelist Alaa Aswani
Seven characteristics of barbaric society
First: Collective responsibility
The barbaric community is not only responsible for its actions but also responsible for what any member of his community, family or country does. If a Christian young man raped a Muslim girl in a village, the barbaric society considers that all the Christians in the village are responsible for the crime of rape and thus begin a wave of attacks on Christian property and lives. If the US military commits crimes in Iraq, the barbaric society considers all Americans responsible for the crimes of a few soldiers and accepts the killing of civilians in America as terrorist attacks as just punishment. During these barbaric attacks, the human nature of the victims is dehumanized, and not everyone is seen as a human being, but only as one of the enemies who must be crushed. The barbaric society necessarily attests to a continuous series of sectarian attacks, sectarian conflicts and terrorist movements, all embracing the principle of collective punishment and not recognizing individual responsibility, which is the most basic rule of justice.
Second: Delight in the senses
In a barbaric society, people enjoy nothing but sensual pleasure. Aside from eating, drinking, sex and life, the barbaric mind can not imagine happiness. Thus, wealthy people enjoy delicious food and boast of their lack of luxury, modern cars and precious jewelry worn by their wives, but they do not read literature or watch ballet or opera. They do not understand how someone pays a large sum of money to buy a painting or spend the evening at a classical concert. Successful films and serials in the barbaric society are based on sexual arousal and rude comedy that mocks the disabled and laughs onlookers at a fat person, a hawk or a dwarf.
Third: the body of women
More than a century after women's equality with men, and after the great achievements made by women, men in the barbaric society still see women as bodies, whether the barbaric, religious man wants to cover women fully and enjoy her joy (sometimes she is still a child) or was a virgin wanting to undress and enjoy her body without marriage. In the eyes of barbaric men, women are not fully qualified. It is a tool for sexual pleasure, a means of seduction, a factory for having children, a cook, a housemaid, and every other job for women is less important. The barbaric man despises women as much as they hate her. He considers sex to be an act of humiliation for women as proof that he uses the word marriage as an expression of humiliation for his male opponents.
"If you're a real male do it."
Masculinity in his mind the peak of pride, femininity is shame and humiliation.
Fourth: Noise, violence and abuse
As primitive tribes drummed drums to express joy, the human in the barbaric society can not rejoice without causing noise .. All happy occasions, such as weddings and the horrors of the opening of shops should produce a big noise, and is not disturbed by the noise, but on the contrary if it prevailed The man in the barbaric society has a penchant for corporal punishment. He usually calls for the execution of criminals in the public domain or the cutting off of their hands and feet. He also considers the use of violence with adversaries masculine and courageous, and considers the profane person successful and skillful in defeating his opponents with insults and insults.
Fifth: The one fact that is adopted
In the barbaric society there is one fact that is religiously and politically sanctioned by rulers and clergy. The barbaric man considers anyone who does not believe in the truth to be a disbeliever or a traitor to his country, and he practices the worst forms of repression that start with false accusations and defamation and may amount to assassination.
Sixth: The use of the law
In barbaric society, the law is not applied to everyone. The character of the accused, his social status, the size of his wealth and his relationship to power are all influential factors in the implementation or disabling of the law. The law in barbaric society is not an instrument of justice, but rather a weapon in the hands of the authority. It uses it to harass and disobey its opponents. It quickly moves from power to people, and they have a lack of objective standards. They share cronyism, mediation and bribery as normal and acceptable actions.
Seventh: emotional freight
The barbaric society lives in a perpetual state of emotional charge exercised by the media and the ruling classes. The emotional charge drives the masses to over-praise the people, the dictates of the individual ruler, or to antagonize people against political opponents as traitors and agents or to spread xenophobia as spies. This emotional charge of the masses obscures the vision of reality and impairs its ability to think and evaluate events. If a police officer tortured a defendant to death and some demanded his trial, the media machine immediately carried out the emotional charge in the direction of reminding people of the sacrifices of the police (although the gratitude for the sacrifices did not contradict the murderer's trial). If the ruler committed serious mistakes in his policies, the emotional discourse calls upon the masses the image of the father, whose accountability for his actions is a kind of disobedience to the children and an insult to the symbol of the homeland.
In the end, we affirm that there are no barbaric and civilized peoples, but a system of government that leads the people to barbaric or civilized behavior. The dictatorial regimes are keen to push society to barbarism in order to remain in power and avoid any accountability or censorship.
In a democratic society, the citizen enjoys justice, freedom and dignity, which inevitably leads to civilized behavior.