Criticizing moral deviation of broken intellectuals [Archives:2006/946/Opinion]

By: Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Maqaleh
When an intellectual goes bankrupt, or when getting more intellectually broken, he will not hesitate on declaring war against everything including himself and then others. Bankruptcy is not that of money as money comes and goes, but it is that bankruptcy of morals. Among these comes the epistemic bankruptcy of which the deviation of the intellectual increases whenever his bankruptcy goes up. This will be clear in his dealings with his friends and enemies alike whether they agree with him or not. Such sort of broken people increase in number with the passage of time and they become a burden and danger for themselves before others who bear the consequences of their bankruptcy. These bankrupt people have trouble in their depth with aggressive obsessions which calm down only to move again.

What is strange about such broken intellectual is that he can not see nor recognize himself. If he had seen his reality one day, it would have caused him to feel disgust. So he may give up or belittle his excessive broken self due to the stress of his feelings of bankruptcy which alienate him from others. Consequently, he will not mind attacking others nor setting free his aggressive intentions towards those whom he think to be a stumbling stone in his way and a cause for his bankruptcy. His foolishness and his aggressive way which is destitute of all meanings of balancing turn with the passage of time to be a morbid case. Such case will tranquilize only with increased snapping, hurting and facts turning over. In addition, he will use and borrow the big terms to use out of their place to speak of things he does not know and they are not of concern to him.

This broken intellectual may not realize that his attack against a certain person or issue will earn him or it more interest and attracts other people's attention to this person's qualities or that issue which has been hidden. When the bankrupt finds reactions turn against him, he will not apologize nor give up his hallucinations. Yet, he will be more agitated and he will strongly stick to his deviating style which arouses the pity and concerns of those around him. He does not merit the honor of enmity as the deserving for such honor are those who are healthy not unhealthy. They leave behind them their traces on the daily life and they meet with strong peers and competitors. None will compete with this broken nor wish to be his peer under no condition.

The phenomenon of the bankrupt people who have no concern except to revenge their bankruptcy on successful people does rise in our Arab World. It is not confined to certain Arab country. It is a sign of societies' deterioration and a real picture for degeneration of the level of knowledge. I do not want to refer to those evidences scattered here and there. For it is sufficient to hint at the disease which has not got enough study from those who care about the psychological and moral health of societies and it is the base for the physical one. The studies conducted by psychologists will help in this respect. In the main time, studying such phenomenon will protect our nation's youth from falling into this sort of cultural bankruptcy whose victims and samples have increased in number.

Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Maqaleh is Yemen's prominent poet and intellectual. He is the director of the Yemeni Center for Studies.
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