Manipulative memory {The Egyptian Explained}
"Afet El bashar Al Nesyaan"
This is a franco-Arab sentence meaning humans are inflected by forgetfulness.
Memory is what shapes humans and nations. their deep core of identities very much morphs from the memory. what we think is our memory, what we remember or what we choose consciously or sub-consciously to overlook and bury are very foundational questions for our journey to quest our being. Even, how we remember our selective or eclectic memory tells a lot about the person and how would he choose to revive certain memory. just like a story, when we want to conjure up a certain memory, how we are going to demonstrate and portray this story is part of our interpretation of this memory. But why we choose this exact memory is a pure sense of gratification for specific senses.
Some people willingly choose to choose from their memory. The reasons may differ as previously explained but the reasons revolve around gratification. This gratification doesn't mean obtaining positive sense or healthy view on the reality or the situation. However, this comes from innate gratification from oneself or the nation deep identities. Building on this, if the relationship with oneself is constructed on negative connotations, the positive gratification he/she will attain is associated with malpractices and unhealthy inner interpretations.
Egypt is a country where currently the younger generations circulate memories on nostalgic memories from previous generations. The issue about this is the amount of misinformation and false memories implanted in various forms of media mediums, most notably social media platforms.
The photos usually propagated certain view and perspective representing certain social strata or class or even ideology. However, youth and younger generations propagate certain image as a false memory from the past. This image could be even contrary to what was there or the reality which took place in exchange for certain values displacement.
The photos context and circumstances in the time of taking could have a lot of interpretations for their behind the scenes. However, currently, all could be simplified into a whatever caption written by whoever describing everything against to what were actually once related to these photos. Same could be applied on texts including the most controversial religious texts without explanation. Even if there was an interpretation for some cultural or literary product, there are still multiple other views in the background the most are not aware of.
Thus, I can pimp this phrase a bit and write as follows,
Humans in this era are inflicted by forgetfulness and oversimplification.
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