:Mamdoug Bitar, George Banna
The consequences of practicing personalization are negative and harmful in all cases, and most of the harm falls on those who practice it, who are unaware that it does not support their point of view as much as it condemns it. As the ego inflates in personalization, objectivity diminishes, creating a dialogue of the deaf between the subject and the object, between abstraction in objectivity and integration in personality, between the comprehensiveness of the objective view and the limitedness of the personal view. The worst thing that personalization can develop into is self-aggrandizement, sanctification of one’s own position, and a refusal to accept self-criticism, self-argument, or doubt in one’s own capabilities or the uniqueness of one’s experiences. At that point, personalization turns into a psychological disorder, one can say it is a psychological illness that requires and warrants treatment.When a psychological disorder develops into a disease, the phenomenon of aggression is born, accompanied by verbal violence saturated with arrogance, contempt, disdain, defiance, and escalating boasting. This leads to the production of the swashbuckling personality with its characteristics represented by claiming the ability to do everything, and knowing everything absolutely, and then the ability to control and control reality, in addition to using the principle of displacement and projection, displacement of responsibility! And projecting failure onto the unknown or the vague, unknown, and assumed, like a conspiracy! The swashbuckling personality produced by personalization is repelled by collective work and prefers individual work (the inflated ego), which produces another personality: the leader’s personality, which develops into the personality of the superficial, weak dictator who creates himself based on the prescription and praise of the court poets. He is as they inflate him, not as he really is.What is the relationship between personalization and culture? Culture is a cognitive awareness and a set of different behavioral patterns, then a manifestation of mental activity. A strong and empowered intellectual does not personalize because he is able to employ awareness within the circle of knowledge of society. An intellectual is able to embody cognitive awareness and develop it to serve the issues of society. An intellectual who possesses knowledge and holds the reins of knowledge also does not personalize. Individuals and society are the ones who produce culture, and they are the ones who greatly influence people’s awareness and help them recognize disturbances in fundamental issues such as justice, freedom, democracy, and respect for human rights. The intellectual is the producer of national culture, the culture of construction and work, the culture of social justice, and the culture of freedom, thought, and social justice.The person suffering from a diminished ability to communicate with others. They communicate only with themselves, thus losing the ability to benefit from the advice and influence of others. They live in isolation and detachment, gradually distancing themselves from the familiar and acceptable, and becoming an eccentric and deviant individual in their thoughts and actions. This leads to an escalation in their hostility and resentment toward others, a rise in their level of personalization and a decline in their objectivity and even sociability. At that point, they fall into the clutches of a flawed cycle that could destroy them completely.The question is, is it possible to completely eliminate personalization?The answer is ambiguous!Yes and no. The reason for the confusion and difficulty is that the problem is ambiguous. It is difficult to separate the ego from the event, except in rare cases. The ego is concerned with the matter and moves within the person’s psychological and cultural life history, which forces the answer to the question to be “no.” A “yes” answer is possible if one is able to start from the principle that the entire world, life, and everything on earth and on it are subject to the judgments of viewpoints based on relativism, which equates the viewpoint of others with one’s own in terms of value, not in terms of conformity. This equanimity of value eliminates the possibility of transcendence and the necessity of subservience through contempt and boasting. The opinion or viewpoint is subject to the judgments of the proposition, not any of the most correct assumptions.The ugliest forms of personalization are found when examining a social issue, when the personification begins to use themselves as a substitute for society, thereby transforming society into a person with their own experience and circumstances that differ from those of society and the way of assessing social conditions. We tell them that the average lifespan in this country has fallen to 55 years, and they respond, “This is a mistake!”My father lived 82 years, isn’t my father a human too