حكومة بقر والحليب مقطوع؟!

و يأكلك العاصف المشتعل

ألا أيها الظالم المستبد
حبيب الظلام عدو الحياه
سخرت بأنات شعب ضعيف
و كفك مخضوبة من دماه
و سرت تشوه سحر الوجود
و تبذر شوك الاسى في رباه

رويدك لا يخدعك الربيع
و صحو الفضاء و ضوء الصباح
ففي الافق الرحب هول الظلام و قصف الرعود و عصف الرياح
حذار فتحت الرماد اللهيب
و من يبذر الشوك يجن الجراح

تأمل هنالك انى حصدت رؤوس الورى و زهور الأمل
و رويت بالدم قلب التراب اشربته الدمع حتى ثمل
سيجرفك سيل الدماء
و يأكلك العاصف المشتعل

نكره ريحة ليسانس

Biddmou3 :))

في الصميم - 5

لن اعيش في جلباب ابي

Note: this post dates back to almost three years ago, I'm publishing again as is...

I have a nasty feeling that the generations before us got corrupted by the newly established state upon independence and that we are just an "extension by continuity" to them and thus we hold a considerable part of the responsibility for the political/economical/social and especially behavioral decay we are witnessing and suffering from. All the same, I put the blame especially on our parents - the generation that was born around the independence, who had access to relatively decent public health services, to free education and jobs - but all the good things stop here. Yes, our parents strove to see their children gain access to better education, better food and health, better living conditions. Unquestionably, these are deeds to be acknowledged and rewarded. I also think that as every parents in the world, they wanted to fulfill their incomplete aspirations through us. The problem is that they never taught us to say NO. We were always asked to abide by rules that did not stand any discussions or thoughts. We were always told that education was the sure guaranteed way to social and financial success, that politics were a red line, that every thing is good as long as the family is good, that the fall of Palestine was the mistake of Palestinians themselves and that "kilmet la matjib bla" [ the "NO" word brings no pain ]!

I'm not denying my part of responsibility in all this nor am I trying to play the spokesman of a generation who is unwilling to take the burden from the one before and who is reluctant to carry on the path for the better. I'm just trying to figure out what went wrong, trying to ask questions I've never asked before and invite some of you to "pour your bucket" in the debate.

I for one still remember an anecdote when I was still before school. That was in 1985/1986 when the "light metro" was first launched. I usually used to talk a lot to myself and that day I was describing in a loud voice the landscapes the metro cut through, which may have made my father want to shut me up by telling me that the lady in front of us was the daughter of Bourguiba himself [ on the basis that I knew Bourguiba was something very important and that he deserved to be afraid of ]. Luckily I didn't shut up saying that if she were his daughter she wouldn't take the metro altogether ; what I want to say is that - with children increasingly smart, the 3'oul was no longer a good threat so it was replaced by anything else that would put us again on their YES-tracks - inconsciously, parents tried to draw the state, the government, and politics in general as a taboo, a thing to avoid, a red line, a land of no return. They kind of feared or even admired what the state has achieved all they witnessed when they were growing up [ may be we don't have that same feeling because we took too many things for granted].

It is not that I don't admire my father I do but I don't want to be a copy of him he is himself and I am what I am and I have to plow my own path otherwise what is my presence for ? my added value ? do I have to abide by rusty rules and midieval laws ? do I have to get corrupt and lengthen this lead-to-nowhere "trip" ? do I have to apply "kilmet la matjib bla" in its bad sense ?

I hope I won't be overprotective on my own children and sincerely I will be more pleased by a girl or boy who consistently discuss her/his professor than by her/his would-be high marks ! The only thing I am afraid of concerning this NO-Learning Story is that when I would say to her/him after teaching her/him to say NO and asking "Undaerstood ?" he would reply me by a NO !!!

Pour Quelques Minutes de Plus de Merde Sur RTCI....

After some almost three decades of loyal services in the promotion of the Shakespeare's language in Tunisia, the English Language Program on RTCI was rewarded by seeing its broadcast window reduced from 1 daily hour to just 30 minutes. Even worse, the program which is a live program saw its airing time change from 2-3 pm to 8-8.30 pm!

Now I'm not gonna try to defend the English language and uselessly remind my readers of some well established facts like this language being THE business and global communication language (the pie chart shows the web pages percentage by language, Source VeriSign) nor will I put it better than Tarek did in his post on this matter.

I'm not gonna attack the Elite "a la francaise", people who daily enjoy reading La Presse , who congratulated themselves during the visit of that little man from Hungary and who goes by the title of the President of the French Republic, that so-called Elite who boasts its achievements every now and then (like the infrastructure they made and which was drowned in the latest floods), that very same Elite who never misses an opportunity to remind us of the glorious past of France and its enlightenment era with all the fuss about the values and ethics of the French Republic. Thank you, we've been tasting those values for 75 years and we had enough of them.

English IS the default language for business, technology, academic papers, international agreements to name but a few. And it will probably keep that place long after the US will lose its superpower status in the international arena. If you're into the Haute Couture and the Cuisine Fine then you should probably be that proud of being so proficient in French because that's what the French are really good for right now: clothes and food.



Ever Heard about that saying: the blind leading the blind? Guess What! a country from the third world is anchoring itself to a country that can barely fund its research, where government is still subsidizing heavily almost everything and that happens to have a language that only excels by taking the bottom of charts every time the topic has to do with emerging or cutting-edge technology or even the number of people speaking that or that language.

It's just despicable. I'm not blogging in French anymore...

في الصميم - 4

الشعب العزيز والحجامة