بطَل فتيِ | Stop bullshitting

There was a story that my father used to tell me since I was young; to cut a long story short, he was searching for a job in Iraq in the 80’s first half of the last century. After around a month of an on feet searching, day after day, door after door job search-by the way my father is a Mechanical Engineer- he by coincidence finds a factory in a street he passed by almost every day without noticing it. Knocked the gates asking for a vacancy and luckily finds one.

He passed through an interview of many questions and that One Question that stood out “do you know electrical engineering??” my dad answered “No, I’m a mechanical engineer, yet I very slightly know electrical” and highlighted that SLIGHTLY. The reaction of the Iraqis was they laughed their asses out provokingly to my dad that he assertively asked what is that so funny thing he said was.

In a polite way they tried to calm him down replying that “don’t be angry we don’t mean to provoke you, but this is the first time ever that any Egyptian answers us a question with an  I DON’T KNOW TO DO THAT THING IT’S NOT MY EXPERTISE :)”
This is football, we've been watching that game decades back, and some of us played it for some time so we know some football. But how old are we in the experience of investigation, management, anatomy, economics, diplomatic or politics or military efforts? Multiplying that crisis by the number of circles out there we end up in a population broken down into few small dictatorships. And that’s one reason of why we are now so deviated from what we really want, breaking incidents can shift the whole focus from a major objective to smaller ones. Because as this or that deviation source takes place we get into the pot of “I KNOW IT”. And we end up in battle of opinions rather than sharing constructive ones and do our work, the thing that really works to the favor of building a mature modern community.

In football, whenever we watch a football game we tend to criticize the coach for a substitution, starting line-up or playing strategy. Even the players, whenever the player is in a one-on-one situation with the goalie of the opponent team and he for some reason misses, most of us say he should have placed it on floor or in the cross bars. –Motivated you are J-

I’ll start by myself admitting, I sometimes be that Mr. Fahlawi who knows more. I may give an objection over something that is off my field of knowledge or expertise with a motive of logic or driven by the know-how of the mechanism of whatever I already know or passed through that was a bit similar or so; or I may say a kind of experience benchmark .

It’s no shame to work your mind in issues taking place before your eyes, read slightly about it, and ask more about it. Try to find out a point of view and form your own opinions that in the end collate to form your entity and value of existence. But in my opinion that I believe it bears being wrong equally to its probability to be correct. It’s important to keep in mind that – especially in off field matters – it’s important to keep the opinion as some point of view that can be either right or wrong totally or partially, in other words "not an absolute". And how can our off field opinion be The One and Only while we usually say when discussing matters of our knowledge as “I guess, assume, believe, expect..etc.”???

If we treat topics we already know about with this level of modesty, so we better be even more humble when we get to speak about things we don’t know much about. And hereby lies the crisis; A person first has to admit a low level of knowledge and the average level of experience. That admittance should surely open up our minds to know more, expose to more and form an opinion of better quality while giving room for more civilized & fruitful conversations.

وَفَوْقَ كُلّ ذِي عِلْمٍ عَلِيمٌ

A big problem that’s taking place amongst all of us is that we are still rookies in politics and how countries are built and managed yet we keep speaking on what is right,what is wrong, what has to be done, what can and can’t be done –off course patriotism- as if we all really are into politics for ages now; And lots of us keep repeating what’s said from the So Called elites “Nokhba” disregarding what it really means or what it really is. And in case of opposition to the point of view we adopt encounters, some reject the fact that this opposing opinion is probably also a result of research and analysis exactly as the one we possess and present.

In a nutshell, we shouldn't question anyone’s’ motive when we are not on a same page about a specific issue, and it is much better to investigate the CVs of the people we might follow (and not passively follow under any conditions) and better build our own CV rather than

That’s ONLY one thing of those lots I learned from my father :)

NB. This article was written back in 2011 by my brother.