TYPICAL EGYPTIAN

You are a 'typical Egyptian believer.'

I saw it written at from cairo describing two of the fellow bloggers. Interesting statment. What does this statment mean in general? What is a typical believer? What is typical about it being typical? And jotting Egyptian does it add more aroma to the believer's character? Spice it up somehow?

Personally speaking* I use the phrase 'typical Egyptian' whenever I mock some behaviour or style of thinking done by Egyptian of course! DAAA. Whenever in an argument or discussion and someone just say some lame answer or opinion, I would give him the phrase, or just hear it in my head. This phrase and its conotation I developed years back when I was living outside Egypt. For me I will call someone 'typical egyptian' when he/she just drop a dead body in the middle of an energetic room; bring discussion to an end; taking discussions to a 'safe mode'; he himself runing and function in the same 'safe mode' and thus expecting everyone to confrom to his safety measures. This attitude of always want to go with the majority even if this majority is just a stoned bunch.

I see it as a reflection of the identity-less that started to invade the Egyptian mentality, causing them to reject the Egyptian identity in search for another global one, Arab nationalism, Islamic, coptic,...just anything but Egyptian. They want to belong to something, safe, more accepted, more divine, more idealistic and convince themselves that they have a direction and a belief they are struggling for. But since they have no identity or lost it in their search for a new holisitc one, it became a matter of life or dead situation to him. The new acquired identity is now the center of his life; glorifies it; goes to extremes with it, just because it is a way to prove that he exists. Moreover, this new identity is what gives him fake superiority over others. Starts to be a step that separates him from those other bunch who are lost in their lives because they are not following his path, the path of the majority. It simply gives them some satisifaction of being in the right side.

In the process of getting themselves convinced with this new identity, they depend solely on their ears. Hardly would they open a book to read others point of view; take a look at what is really happening; look deeply in this new thoughts they are adopting; accept any criticism; evaluate in a practical way...., however, just passionately immerse themselves in the patriot role and VOOOOOOO hit the gas. Full speed. If you carry a little conversation with them, you can easily spot that they dont really know what they are fighting for. They 'heard' this and that, but did they actually read...Not really. Did they evaluate things. Maybe but again through hearing someone talking about his certain evaluation, liked it, and thus hop, adopted it. Of course, this guy has to be conforming to the original idea of course.

With this in mind, I dont need to jott in any more description to describe a typical Egyptian. Believer. Non believer. Westernized. Liberal. Conservative. Marxist. Nasserist. Sadatist. Mubarakist. Aucian. Whatever! They are typical. You expect to hear a boring discussion. Full of big words, idealistic ones. Beeds like sound, tick, tick, tick, tick, falling one after the other. Bunch of heads going in a symphony like manner: YEESSS. NOOOOO. As if everything in this world is captured between Yes and No. As if they figured everything out. Know things and only read and hear to conform what they have.

There is no room for questions. It is always forbidden to ask. To form an opinion. To float. WRONG WRONG WRONG. Conform and run in 'safe mode' and thus, 'limited or no connection', 'Unable to grab an IP.'

This has nothing to do with Mohamed's intention when he wrote the phrase, and from anyone associated with the phrase. I am not by any means having anyone in mind.