A distant Forth?

The talk has been going on for ever on how the outcome of the elections will be. Of course its mostly about who's going to win and will it be fare? Of course if Gomaa or Nur win then it would prove that the elections were fair afterall and egptians do care. I highly doubt that will happen though.

Obviously they eyes have always been on the top three; Mubarak, Gomaa and Nur. Of course that's half because they're the only ones worth running, the rest of the pack is more made up of wackos and idiots. I mean they mostly have stupid and quite naive ideas. One of them did happen to make a mark though. Mamdouh Kenawy that is.

I must say a lot of his ideas are quite naive and like the others sometimes just downright silly. He has one idea that hit the mark and hit it hard. Rebuilding the Egyptian Person; that's it and boy is he right. I have no doubt that if the unthinkable happened and Kenawy won that he would fail to carry out most of what he promised to do mostly because of the fact that his party is so small and resouceless that it would be a impossible job to rule the country.

Rebuilding the Egyptian Person; might sound funny, wierd and maybe even crazy but I still think its needed. Egyptians are always said to be nice welcoming and genorous people. They are modest, simple and basically well mannered. I don't think that discription quite fits anymore. Egyptians, and I mostly talking about people in cities and supposedly educated, are really schizophrenic. You see them in Europe or America or anywhere for that matter, and you see nice people, well mannered, clean and just everything that makes a person good. Look a Cairo, which is a pretty good example of Egyptians seeing 20-25% of the population live in it, and you just lose that image. Clean? What do you call people dumping garbage in the street? And to make it worse its not just on educated or poor people, you could even see a person in a mercedes roll down his window and dump out his garbage. Good manners? Well all I've basically seen lately is people that are always in mood to fight and swear. Egyptians consider them selves as religious. My cousin told me that a friend of his now serving in Luxor found out that a lot of people didn't fast in Ramadan, why? Well the answer he got seemed to denote that they didn't know they were supposed to. Egyptian really need to get educated and learn to read, not just how to but to actually want to, some of my friends told me that a book is just a too big of a chore to tackle, one even said that sitting down to read a magazine like Mickey would be too much even. I can't deny that there are some bookworms but the overall average is that we don't read and that's one big problem we need to tackle. Of course a big contributing factor is we don't do much about public libraries. Our most beloved first lady loves openning new libraries, but the libraries themselves aren't very reader friendly, espesially for the kids and that's the main age we need to target. I also think that we should move to 5 day week days, maybe that would let people loosen up a little more and maybe well mannered. I know I've really wandered off from the main point but my pont remains Kenawy has a great idea that somebody should work on.