Post-war Precautions 2-10

Karar El Tohamy

In the first part of the article, I pointed out several warnings and described them as “ten snakes” that may return and spew their poison again into the body of the nation after the end of the war, and then the saying will apply to us (as if you, Abu Zaid, did not conquer). It is the duty of every individual in society to know these snakes by heart. It is motivated to confront it so that crises do not return again, with its clothes rolled up and its fangs bared, and armed conflict returns under claims of marginalization, tribal bullying returns, and crime grows as it was in the streets, back alleys, and in the heart of the city.
◾Among the ten snakes that I mentioned, the one that spreads the most poison is (the spirit of pessimism), which was and still is prevalent in many of the people of Sudan, and is represented by cursing and cursing our country, and blaming it for poverty and short-handedness, while it is rich and full of good things that we do not see because of the inferiority view that we impose on it.
◾ After the war, it is necessary (to change the paradigm) and to be optimistic about the abundant goodness in this country and its people, and to sing for it from our consciences sincerely, not for joy, but for meanings. Sudan is the most beautiful country, and it has abundant capacity and abundance, and it is the most spacious country for others, and it has resources that satisfy the hunger of the whole world. The fertile land, the crops, and animal resources are what others dream of, and the rare minerals underground are sufficient for the largest industrial renaissance, and it contains what the invaders have been searching for since the beginning of history until today. The people in Sudan are interdependent, loving, and interconnected more than others, and the people of help, sacrifice, and redemption are famous among the peoples for their good-heartedness, courage and honesty
◾ How do we embody these meanings in the details of our daily lives, in schools, in theater, and in literature, and to believe in them with certainty and deepen them in the souls of young people and generations that are exposed daily to cultural distortion and bulldozing due to alienation, the alienation of emigration, and the feeling of inferiority that seeps into the conscience when we look at others and compare?
◾The philosophy of collective optimism is important for the advancement of civilization. An optimistic nation is a successful nation and more capable of development. Professor Martin Seligman, the American thinker, researcher, and psychologist, refers in his book Learned Optimism to the role of individual, collective, and institutional optimism in stability and intellectual and economic production. Martin draws a comparison between pessimistic peoples who flog themselves day and night. Optimistic people and full of patriotism and love of the country, praised in every assembly
◾The Germans, who are more than aware of wars and burned in their flames, say, “War is the mother of everything.”
War causes destruction, destroys people, creates news, inspires ideas, and refines men. The military, pharmaceutical, and automobile industries, the nuclear bomb project, and the Aryan nervous system that distinguished Germany and made it superior in all of these flourished in war. It is the human instinct, the desire to continue the species, the national pride, and the state of fight and flight that provokes chemistry of life, the hormones of survival in humans, and the movement of the collective mind, igniting the spark of thinking and creating alternatives
◾Khartoum will turn into the most beautiful and cleanest city after treatment with cauterization. There are many examples and lessons. Many cities rose from the ashes of war like a salamander and rose after being trampled by the oldest invaders and crushed by enemy planes. They turned into ruins and annihilation, including Berlin, which was used as a proverb for crime, hunger, famine and inflation. The German man carries money in a sack to buy things with it that he carries in his “pocket”, but it became healthy after the war and turned into the strongest economic capital in Europe.
◾The Rwandan example is not far away. After the hatred, murder, and tribal revenge that destroyed Rwanda and divided it with a knife, it rose as one of the most beautiful, most developed and stable countries in Africa, and its capital became Kigali. After the war filled its alleys and desolate streets with corpses, it turned into an African capital that rivals the most beautiful cities in the world.
◾London was crushed by planes and leveled to the ground. There was no standing building left in it, and forty thousand of its residents were killed. It returned after the war as the capital of the most powerful country, distinguished by its culture, theaters, and magnificent parks.
◾Tokyo continued to be bombed by American aircraft for nearly a year, until its population was displaced by the millions, and more than two hundred thousand civilians died. After the war stopped, the ashes were shaken off and its sun shone again as a capital of modernity and technology.
◾ Even nature, as many anthropologists have mentioned, compensates society for the lives and fruits it loses, as they pointed to the increase in women’s fertility in Europe and the rise in the birth rate after the war, which destroyed crops and offspring and took the lives of tens of millions. And here is Europe, after the destruction and war, reviving and transforming into the largest rising civilizational and sophisticated force.
◾Thus, Khartoum will return more beautiful, better, and nobler. It will be free of crime and return to its standard level of security, smooth life, and happiness, like all cities that emerge from war pure as gold emerges polished from fire, boasting its universities, theaters, arts, its rich cultural nights, and its S
fresh Nile, and the entire nation will return.
◾ Psychologists say that the most important rule in self-development is to love yourself, and political scientists say that the most important rule for social construction is to love your country, accept it with its faults, and be proud of it… So, abandon pessimism and self-flagellation and straighten your ranks…
The rest of the snakes to be continued