Mamdouh Bitar, Samir Sadek:
It is difficult to achieve democratic development without humanizing society. Humanization does not mean industrial advancement or scientific progress, but rather it means limiting social interactions between humans alone. This limitation represents the fundamental pillar for achieving the principle of equality, which is the fundamental foundation upon which a democratic structure can be established. Democracy is created by and for humans. A society divided between gods or demigods and humans cannot achieve democratic progress, because the fundamental pillar of a god-human society is based on the principle of inequality between gods and humans. Vertical inequality between humans and gods is reflected in the horizontal relationship between humans, producing inequality among humans…and thus undemocracy. Democracy began in the city of Athens, when the god became a “human.” This means that democracy began in Athens when the relationship of vertical inequality disappeared—that is, when the gods disappeared through their humanization and transformation into humans. Thus, horizontal equality between humans was activated, and democracy began. There is no democracy between God and humans, because God does not equate himself with humans. There are common expressions in the field of philosophy, such as the philosophy of crisis and the crisis of philosophy. It is possible to replicate these expressions and apply them to the topic of crisis. There is the crisis of civilization, and there is the civilization of crisis. Democracy, one of the most important components of civilization, has severely faltered in its construction in the Arab East. Is the reason for the faltering democratic construction the accumulation of crises (chronic crisis)? Or is the reason for the accumulation of crises (chronic crisis) the faltering of democracy, caused by humans sharing the responsibility of organizing their lives with gods and their like? We tend to believe in a certain kind of causality, one that makes crises the result of the faltering and inability of democracy in a society that shares responsibility with the gods for organizing and developing its life. Crisis is an expression of the accumulation of crises. Accumulation usually occurs when there is no ability to address a crisis or problem that has arisen. The crisis remains unresolved, and accumulation occurs. Resolving crises requires societal forces, the most important of which is the power of democracy. However, when there is no society in the contractual, solidarity, and mutual support sense, and when there are multiple, scattered, wandering groups with no contractual, solidarity, and mutual support bonds between them other than neighborliness, physical proximity, and loyalty to divine colonialism, it is impossible to build democracy. Consequently, these groups lack the power to resolve crises. Divine colonialism, which is not necessarily heavenly colonialism, but in most cases earthly (deification), is the rock against which the democratic idea crumbles and upon which every democratic project collapses. There is no societal development without encountering obstacles, metaphorically called crises. These obstacles are not only internal, but also external. All obstacles are internal and external, especially in this era of interconnectedness, interdependence, and globalization. The regional plot is part of the global plot. Therefore, we cannot differentiate between failure to address the Palestinian issue, for example, and failure to find a solution to any other obstacle or problem, whether economic, political, or otherwise. Resolving every crisis, large or small, requires the deployment of societal forces, the most important of which is democratic power. Arab regimes claim to have voluntarily abandoned democracy in favor of occultism, or postponed it indefinitely, intending to liberate Palestine first. After liberation, the regimes devote themselves to democratic construction! They go to war unarmed in order to win! And after victory, they acquire the weapons of democracy. How do the features of this thinking align with each other? In general, it can be said that the crisis is not a cause of the lack of democracy, but rather a result of the lack of democracy. The lack of democracy is one of the most important causes of the crisis, given that some of the features of the relationship between cause and effect are a mixture of the features of the flawed cycle. A crisis that reaches a very high degree becomes an obstacle to democratic construction, given that the crisis is essentially a result of the lack of democratic construction. Despite all of this, we cannot assert that democracy is impossible in the Arab East in the future, nor can we deny that the democratic project is extremely difficult to achieve. However, it begins with the elimination of the gods, that is, when humans live under conditions of equality with others, for example, when every human being becomes a god, or when every god becomes a human, as happened in Athens. How, why, where and when the idea of God was born, why must God exist, where is He located, where did the idea of God appear, by whom and when did He appear in the consciousness of some? Certainly not before 1440 years. Humanity lived for thousands of years with a God who does not resemble in many of His attributes the God of the past 1440 years. Likewise, humanity lived for millions of years without that heavenly God, monopolized mainly by the Abrahamic religion, which subjected many peoples to its domination in the name of God. We are not obligated to answer all these questions now and immediately. Many questions have been answered with great precision, and what the God of the seventh heaven brought has been denied with conclusive evidence. Humanity has made great strides in denying the myth of creation. Neither did we create God, nor did God create us!