unable to establish a system of individual society, and remained in a system of groups of people, i.e., non-society?
There are many reasons, including the structure of the patriarchal society, and the influence of nomadism, Society is a characteristic of urban life and not of a nomadic group, Most important of all was the dominance of religion,Religion is not a social characteristic but an individual one, This matter was transferred to the group, which turned into a group of people, As long as personal religion was the main influence on the group, it was not possible to establish a system of people in society, instead of a group of people.
Religion interferes with the person, their existence, behavior, and practices, even in the relationship between men and women, in regulating marriage and divorce, and in the ways of eating, drinking, and dressing, In short, religion treats people as tools or objects that can be shaped and molded as it wishes,That is, it treats them as “minors” in need of reproducing a consciousness whose source is outside their will and aspirations, an imported consciousness that saves them from the ordeal of inertia, meaning that they are deficient in mental and psychological formation, and must be reshaped according to its vision, to be in its image and according to its perceptions, especially its texts, Not only that, but it opened for them a direct line of communication with heaven, to secure their eternal comfort in a place full of secrets, rituals, and women, Therefore, they became attached to life after death with the hope of reaching immortality.
Religion confiscated the public sphere, the individual’s privacy and freedom, and placed them within a framework of public relations linked to the approach and perceptions of religion, This led to the creation of stereotypical, homogeneous, and alienated groups, separate and closed off from the conditions of their time and place, Therefore, it was impossible for other supplementary or imported ideas to penetrate the wall of religion or dismantle its historical texts packed with large masses of interests, goals and objectives, In general and concisely, it can be said that the culture of personal religion produces only individuals, i.e., a group of individuals, and not individuals in a society, This is the opposite of the human formation necessary for social life (society), i.e., a life of mutual support, solidarity and the social contract, The culture of religion does not allow for the establishment of anything higher than the tribe or clan.
It seemed as though there was no end to the conceptual mobilization based on commands and prohibitions, then threats and warnings and the practice of terrorism and intimidation from the fire, so that man would turn into a fearful, disturbed, and haunted man, haunted by evil and demons, Thus, he was softened and turned into a mere “gelatinous” thing, a piece that could be molded, rolled, and twisted as the religion wished, a piece that had no foundations, no personality, and no form, Religion alone occupied and monopolized the public sphere in the Middle Ages, after it had eliminated the era of polytheism, which was rich in non-ideological human values and open ideas, and full of fields of philosophy, scientific research, and a critical view of man and the universe.
For millions of years, humanity has proven itself to be the “solution,” and without it, religions and life would not exist, Religions are recent compared to the age of humanity, Humans were not born with religion, and humanity has always been the master and creator of the universe, Humans created belief systems called “religion” to serve them, not to be served by them, not to be enslaved, dominated, and exploited, They created something to control it, not for their creation to control them,This creation has gone too far, overstepped its bounds, acted recklessly, falsified, killed, and committed crimes,The result, as expected, is humanity’s general success in isolating this creation and putting it in its proper place, with the exception of some hotspots in this world, such as those in this region, which still fight against humanity and seek to turn it into a beast in a gelatinous herd with no people, no personality, no will, and no entity.
The communities of the region between the Gulf and the Ocean have regressed day by day under the legacy of primitive myths and superstitions, which have transformed over time into decadent cultures that have reduced the value of humanity to the lowest level, that is, to the level of fixed and unchanging permissible and forbidden things, which are fundamentally different from the creative, evolutionary nature of modernity, These communities of permissible and forbidden things do not create, because creation is an innovation, and every innovation is heresy, and every heresy is misguidance, But they have consumed, especially in the oil period, without shame! They have even described modernity as concealing within it the corruption of morals and the corruption of equality between believer and non-believer and between man and woman, and as wanting to replace the divine with secularism, They rejected modernity, but they consumed its products, from slippers to headscarves and keffiyehs, So consumption is not disbelief or heresy!
The groups that had to deal with millions of barrels of oil turned to corruption because they did not have a culture of dual work-live, and they did not learn a culture of openness and remained closed off to themselves for a long time, avoiding creative interaction with others, until they discovered the tendency to modernize as an alternative to modernity, Here, skyscrapers were built that represent giant tents, in front of which luxury cars were lined up, just as camels and she-camels line up in front of a tent.
Confirming that man was the source of both the solution and the source of failure, we see today a change in the oil sands regions, especially in the largest desert entities like Saudi Arabia, where there was no modernization for decades, Then came Muhammad bin Salman to abolish the hadiths of Bukhari and Muslim, shave the mustaches and beards of the sheikhs, and transform the kingdom into an entity with a modern beginning that was unimaginable a few years ago!!!
