AND we thought they knew what was going to happen tomorrow , but now once more the horizon , the future , opens out towards new unknown directions , because it is not known who is going to rule , how authority is going to be organised over all of the Arab world .
Who , that is to say , what people or group of peoples ; consequently , what ethnic or sectarian type , what ideology , what system of preferences , standards , beliefs , could it be a democracy or a theocracy , they know not what's in for tomorrow .
Only the determination to reconstruct a viable nation , by groups of well and sound communicating people of these troubled countries , and their immediate neighbours , would give new life and prospects to such a project . It's peoples would start to believe in themselves again , and only then they can start by making demands from their own citizens , to discipline themselves , tolerate and govern themselves .
But the situation is much more difficult than is generally realised . The years are passing and with them the increase in brutality , death and destruction , intolerance and hate , and there is the risk that people of different walks of life within these countries , will grow accustomed to the lower tone of existence , to some form of the present living .
They will get used to neither rule themselves nor accept anyone else to rule them . In such a case , all their virtues and higher capacities would vanish into thin air and past memories .
If those situations continue to prevail in the Arab world in general and in Syria as a good example , then ten , fifteen or twenty years , will be more than sufficient to send this part of the world , back to barbarism . Legislative , cultural and economical modes and norms will disappear , the whole of life as we know it in those parts will be contracted .
The actual abundance of possibilities will change into practical nullity , a pitiful impotence , a real decadence . A tomorrow , and a future which can only predict a revival and a return to a form of existence inferior or at best similar to that of the sixth century .
Reflections on a sad situation , following the news coming from the Arab world , thanks for your time and patience , salamat.
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