Sunday, March 02, 2008

Dystopia..!

One day i was asked by some1 who travelled a couple of years ago abroad to work for PHD ,..."How is Egypt?!",...

i answered "u just can predict how's everything going on if u look to the past & the present ,...they r the real indication for the near future ,...just look carefully to the trend & u can feel what's happening without seeing it,....!!

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mayb it can b a pessimistic point of view although i call it realistic ,....but we can't ignore the fact that nth comes from nowhere & what happen now is a result for what we lived 2day ,...& consequently what's gonna happen 2morrow is a result for what's happening now to a certain point,......& based on my belief that the net motion in our society is negative i can say that i have concerns about the future....!!

surely what reminded me of all that is Dr.Ahmed Khaled Tawfik's latest novel "UTOPIA" which i read a couple of days ago ,...it belongs to the Dystopia trend (the vision of a society that is opposite to utopia).......he's kind of imagining the worst case scenario for egypt in specific if the same conditions remains with some changes in the whole world ,....(around 15 years from now...)!!

the novel goes through the lives of the rich who get richer & the poor who get poorer showing the opposites,...& showing how evth is ruined ,...ethics ,..humanity,...etc,..... how the ppl on both sides lost their humanity & turned into horrible creatures worse than animals ,.....& how few of them struggle to keep part of their humanity ,....!!!

it may seem a kind of a shock,...& some readers may feel that it's a fantasy ,...but i c it a bell to make ppl wake up b4 everything is destroyed,.....& who know mayb one day ppl will remember this novel as an old true predictions & if that happens i wish to b out of this life not to c that coming true ....!!!

after all whatever our POV's in the dystopia issue r ,....it's a novel that worths reading ....!!



6 comments:

mado said...

la 5ales, deh msh pessimistic point of view 5ales :D

i spent alot of time looking through dark glasses made me though all the world is a dark place bt now wiz a bright one, i can c optimistic events zat prove 2 us we r changin to better ppl

bs dah msh ma3nah en feh negatives 7awalena bardo

Anonymous said...

el qessa dy 7elwa geddan !!

Ummah said...

mado;
believe me it's realistic not pessimistic ....!!


ya3ny lama as7a men el nom tany youm ba3d ma katabt el blog da ala2y 7'abar saf7a ola el ahram 3an mot wa7ed fy taboor 3esh,....la7ez en da el ahram we dy el saf7a el ola we da el 7'abar ,...asibak tafakar ba2a ana keda realistic wala la2....!!!

as for seeing from the bright side u have the right to,...& sometimes we should oblige ourselves to even if we can't,......bas u can'e ignore the facts on the other hand....!!

i dnt mean to think of the dystopia all the time ,.....bas i believe it's a possible thing to happen according to what i c nowadays....& if u read it u'll find el kateb mostaned 3ala 7agat so3'ayara bete7sal 2day...!!



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kimexlilo;
akeed,...i borrowed it we 7'adtaha fy a3deten 3ashan bas kont mash3'ola :D



Anonymous said...

ana aret mola7`as leha lelasaf

bas kan mola7`as (Y)

Unknown said...

5asalt el kesa ,gamda gdn, oslob ra2e3 ,e7m fe3lan scenario momk ye7sal sa7e7 msh bel basha3a deh bs we r going towards it, z richest ppl increase their fortunes & the poorest are losing any money they may gain be4 & also r losing their life as no money,no desire to life,no hope appear to them

lel asaf,scenario momkn ye7sal bs lesa odamo beta3 100 sana kda law fedelna b nafs el 7al dah

Anonymous said...

omayma:

i know how it feels, when we dont see any light @ the end of the tunnel

but im sure, the future will be better in sha2 ALLAH, maybe we are not gonna live those days, maybe ,, it will be the days of our grandchildren
but its coming in sha2 ALLAH, becuase we still have people thinking as u do

im excited to read the novel,
but i dont have time
in sha2 ALLAH after im done with the exam

miss u all
3abeer