Sometimes I feel so disappointed that I wonder for whom I am writing and what my role as an intellectual is towards the masses.  We indeed live in a brutal and unprecedented time of selfishness and over-representation, where smart technologies, in their smart form, have been able to effectively be a focus of attraction for everyone, exercising all forms of domination, control and control over them.  However, we actually live in an unreal reality in which the masses were able to create and shape their own space and society.  But what if everything is an illusion?

The truth today is that we are living in a pivotal historical moment. Everything is new around us.  Yes, we have been able to create and establish a foothold for ourselves in this conquering world, but the problem is that we do not live in this world in a fair and equal manner. Rather, we are a passive, consuming society that issues a history of renewed ignorance, but with a simple and noticeable difference, which is the triviality. The masses have become shared with everyone and documented digitally, and this is the disaster of the era.

 This reality is the result of a series of pagan worship that developed in the conscience of the masses without thinking and which was embedded in a plot that contributed very firmly to haunting people’s minds and influencing them through unfamiliar techniques and inventions that amounted to a new worship, but of a more violent, controlling and enslaving type that results in pathological representations.  Psychologically, culturally and socially, it is similar to addiction in all its forms, due to the absence of laws and culture that take care of these challenges and the ability to control them.  Can any of you today do without a smartphone for minutes, hours, or perhaps months? Certainly not, because he may suffer from manic depression, isolation, and alienation.

To this point, systematic dominance has reached us due to societies in which herd policy and human experimentation are practiced, where the human being has become a number whose value is in the profits reaped by giant companies.  The obvious question that everyone is supposed to answer is: Did this development serve humanity and provide relief, or did it establish a new type of injustice, enslavement, servitude, and unprecedented violence?

 The revolution of knowledge and artificial intelligence must provide comfort to humans and not make them live in the maze of Westernization, isolation, and loss of value and identity, and should provide them with economic, psychological, intellectual, and human comfort.  Where is man today in all of this?  Man today has become a semi-automatic programmer and has not been able to develop a methodology that serves his political influence by building new societies that differ from the oppression, exploitation, tyranny and corruption that preceded them, by achieving justice, equality and freedom.

 What we are suffering today is very dangerous, even devastating, because man is unable to achieve an identity worthy of him due to inequality, class, and unequal wars in knowledge and the information industry. All of these challenges require stability, material budgets, and cultural and intellectual openness that establish a national knowledge industry and laws that take into account and protect the citizens from all these crimes.  Which afflicts humanity, violates privacy, and haunts the human mind with trivialities and digital matrices, in which man is unable to create a new reality far from colonialism, domination and control, even by default.

Ornella Sukkar is a journalist specializing in Orientalist studies