Written by: Idris Al-Waghish
Because one life will not be sufficient, as Al-Aqqad stated, we frequently resort to studying each time, and visiting exhibitions to amass some books that we deem essential, in quest of different new lives. The matter will not be totally different this time, regardless of the gap and distinction between folks in time and place, the priority stays the identical. From Mount Sarghina in Pullman in quest of the promised treasure to the Rabat International Book Fair in quest of the promised information and science, holy ignorance continues to unfold rampant amongst us. It takes on new shapes and colours each time.
A teen says: “His writings are imaginative and distance you from actuality,” and naturally she means the author “Assam.” With this transient and expressive phrase on the similar time, one of many youngsters, female and male, on the International Book Fair, expressed her admiration for the writings of “The Muslim,” and the “distancing” from actuality and refuge stays. “Imagination” is likely one of the options and a standard denominator between medication and the writings of “Osama” and the magical weblog posts he writes, together with different means, that are additionally no much less numbing, if misused, comparable to social media of all types that we all know: YouTube, Tik Tok, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and others we do not know.
This is just a little of what occurred on the e book truthful in Rabat with an unknown Saudi author named “Osama Al-Muslim,” in a precedent that was the primary of its variety, and the matter doesn’t matter if he’s well-known or well-known. How many writers we have no idea till after they obtained the Nobel Prize. It could also be that the frenzy that passed off to amass a e book and acquire the glory of its writer’s signature belies the accusations that we unjustly and slanderously connect to our youth about their reluctance to learn and hostility to books, and proves with conclusive proof that the reader is current and the e book is absent. Otherwise, what could be our clarification for all this scramble and rush to the purpose of incidence? Fainting amongst female and male guests with a purpose to purchase a e book on the worldwide exhibition in Rabat? And even when we have no idea the author, nor the titles of his books or the genres wherein he writes, we all know with certainty the tendencies of our youth in Morocco and the Arab world and we’re sure of that. These teenage girls and boys didn’t make the pilgrimage to Rabat driving camels, mules, and donkeys. Rather, there could have been those that made the pilgrimage to the capital coming from Tangier within the north, which is the closest Moroccan level to European civilization and its globalization, by way of the “Al-Buraq – TGV” high-speed practice, and a few of them got here. From the far south of Morocco, by way of aircraft from Laayoune and Dakhla, there are others who weren’t helped by the circumstances, regardless of their insistence, to go to the Rabat exhibition for a similar objective. They additionally didn’t come to it from the Qur’anic bookshops within the farthest elements of the countryside in Taounate or Dououir and the Anti-Atlas countryside in Tafraout, Tiznit and Taroudant, the place memorizers of the Holy Qur’an abound in corners and mosques. The matter undoubtedly pertains to the educated elite group, and a kind of female and male college students, a few of whom are pursuing their research in bigger faculties. Scientific and technological institutes in Morocco and faculties of drugs and pharmacy, and a few of them are pursuing their postgraduate research within the oldest and most prestigious universities in our largest Moroccan cities. They weren’t motivated by a fleeting enthusiasm after consuming a fast meal, however by the sacred ignorance that resulted from persistent dependancy to fashionable know-how, and their give up to what synthetic intelligence produces when it comes to ease in all the pieces, together with thought and studying. The situation additionally doesn’t rely upon the exaggerated significance of the author and the e book, however it’s a clear condemnation of our cultural and studying poverty, and the distress of our cultural, instructional and studying establishments and our cultural industries, and a message to these supervising them, whatever the literary or scientific worth of the e book and the worth of the e book. In this case, the matter will not be restricted to Morocco alone, however it’s a scourge that has bothered us in our complete Arab world.
“Miraculous” and “unusual” entries in a e book by a Saudi writer, as if he have been writing with fuel and oil and never with a pen stuffed with ink. It appears that he mocked those that promoted these writings on Instagram, and within the blink of an eye fixed he defeated all of the tales written by Victor Hugo, Lorca, Garcia Marquez, Ahmed Bozfour, and Hemingway with their magical realism and their secret ink. We complain, actually, we’re sure that our youth don’t learn, and in the event that they do learn, they don’t select what to learn, and so they have no idea a Moroccan storyteller named Ahmed Bouzfour who wrote a miraculous and unusual textual content within the quick story below the title: “The Man Who Found the Orange,” nor does a Moroccan poet named Mohamed Al-Sarghini create. In a set of poetry, he referred to as it: “Who did this to your skulls…?” “It accommodates unusual and wondrous issues that they won’t discover in all of the works of this “Muslim” author, nor have they learn what Al-Arawi and Muhammad Barada wrote in “The Game of Oblivion” and Muhammad Abed Al-Jabri in “The Structure of the Arab Mind,” nor what was said within the lectures of Muhammad Jassus relating to the concepts about… Sociology and the way forward for the “generations of hyenas” that we preached about, nor the futurisms of Mahdi El-Manjra or what Professor Ghaly Ahrchao wrote in psychology, instructional sciences and psychology. They don’t comply with the information of what was invented by the Moroccan engineer and scientist Rachid Al-Yazmi and his scientific actions, nor different Moroccan names who excelled in numerous fields. Arts and Sciences.
The matter seems to be ambiguous, regardless of the obvious constructive features of a stampede between female and male youngsters at a world e book truthful, with a purpose to purchase a e book and win the approval of its writer, which is suitable in precept, however the situation is basically associated to the triviality that’s being promoted covertly and brazenly on social media websites. Social. The matter didn’t shock me, as Alain Dono had beforehand touched on it in his e book “The System of Banality,” which preoccupied the world and other people. It appears that what we noticed when it comes to photos and movies on the Rabat International Book Fair is nothing however a sensible translation of what was said within the content material of this e book, and {that a} discipline like tradition, which was beforehand immune from triviality, has additionally not been spared from the management of the trivial, and sober cultural works have grow to be Which respects the recipient’s style, a uncommon coin. This is primarily as a result of dominance of market logic, harnessing it to move messages mandatory for the continuation of the capitalist system, and its dominance over all features of life.
Those who management main international selections know this nicely, and so they imagine that this can solely occur by way of “magic” and the impact of triviality and its management over minds. We could discover different justifications for what occurred on the Rabat Fair, and we are saying that the obscure author in Saudi Arabia knew how you can market himself and his literary product nicely on the Rabat Fair in Morocco by way of “smartphones” and synthetic intelligence by way of textual content messages and movies, which the author handed on in a youthful method by way of social media. He is aware of full nicely, if he’s not certain, that our Moroccan and Arab youth are exaggerating in extremism and extremism in utilizing this technological and data revolution that’s managed by international firms that don’t care about studying, values, or morals. This is likely one of the messages that we have to be nicely conscious of sooner or later. We have to be average in using this brutal synthetic intelligence, and guarantee that it doesn’t encourage studying and academic attainment, however merely teaches laziness and rest, and encourages triviality and flatness, and that these means are what It created for us at present a youth who seeks ease, comfort, and encouragement to eat, however not the consumption of studying novels and books, even when these books are superficial of their ideas and contents. There are books, novels, and collections which might be actually value studying, and jostling to amass on the Rabat exhibition and different exhibitions. But those that crowded collectively within the queues of the Rabat International Book Fair this time, and created the occasion with their fainting, didn’t accomplish that for the sake of studying, nor out of affection or ardour for the concepts contained within the e book and its high quality, nor for the depth of the intense issues in it, or for the aim of enriching their information and constructing and forming their mental skills and selves. Good coaching appropriate for the longer term, and even to guard it from the stampede and fainting that occurred.
What occurred on the Rabat Book Fair jogs my memory of what occurred just a few years in the past on Mount Sarghina, the day 1000’s of Moroccans made a pilgrimage to the highest of a mountain in Pullman looking for a misplaced “treasure,” earlier than they have been stunned that the matter didn’t become the recklessness of a reckless younger man whom they thought was incomplete. Reason and faith, earlier than it lastly turned clear to them that he had extra thought, motive, intelligence, and management than them. He led 1000’s of individuals intelligently in a dramatic scene to the highest of a mountain within the Middle Atlas, and it appeared that the writer of the story “The Treasure” was “smarter” than all these blind human hordes. And that the person has extraordinary intelligence, and is ready to mock 1000’s upon 1000’s of individuals, who have been shocked after the method of extracting the “treasure,” after it turned clear to them that what the younger man meant was the Kingdom’s slogan, “God is the Homeland, the King,” and never the treasure as they thought, and thus they turned a laughing inventory. In the worldwide media, as occurred yesterday in Rabat, after they have been starting to climb to the highest of the mountain, racing stupidly to achieve their share of the alleged “treasure.”
The query stays open and open: If the matter is actually associated to the love of studying, why do these younger folks not seek for the writings of Garcia Márquez, and the novel “The Goldfinch” by the American author “Donna Tartt,” who has received multiple worldwide award, for instance, or the novel “Library Square.” “Herbs” by the author “Eric de Kermel”, and in the event that they haven’t but gotten rid of the magic of the East, why not learn the novel “Smell Traps” by the Saudi novelist Youssef Al-Muhaimid, or the novels of Youssef Al-Quaid and Ihsan Abdul Quddous, or seek for Naguib Mahfouz’s trilogy. If they wished to seek for their African roots, they’d have discovered them within the novel “Les Impatientes” by Cameroonian author Djaïli Amadou Amal, winner of the Gancourt Prize for highschool college students. But the difficulty pertains to one thing larger and extra harmful. It has nothing to do with an obscure author who works in literature and writes novels. Rather, whether or not we prefer it or not, the magic of digitalization and the facility of synthetic intelligence’s crafty and energy have globalized us and drowned within the trenches of globalization, and made us misplaced, its slaves, among the many mazes of triviality that “Dunno” as soon as spoke about. Briefly and in different phrases, in his e book “The System of Insignificance”. Now that the trivial folks have taken management of the levers of energy and decision-making in all elements of the world, we have to be cautious earlier than the triviality extends its energy over us all.