The Ikhwan and the Blood of Others

The Ikhwan and the Blood of Others

Whatever the outcome of the Egyptian crisis there is now no doubt that it has reached a significant point. What is that point? It is that point which forces on us a redefining of terms, and by that token the abandonment of an old check-mated game and the time for an open clear space on which the signifiers of a new game of events can be set up.

In an intelligently hosted programme on Al-Jazeera TV a woman speaker for the Ikhwan presented the cold hand of Ikhwani psychology, rejecting the other speakers and droning on with the party line of political party, political systems and the Ikhwan's willingness to collaborate with real power in order to be recognised. Snuggling up to the military today as they did with Nasser.

On the other side of the screen sat Sharief Gaber. He was the voice of that awakening which is happening across the world. Athens. New York. Tel Aviv. Rome. Damascus. Alexandria. Sharief Gaber plainly stated two significant and radical issues.

One - the time of military dictatorship is over. This may be applied to all the cities above.

Two - the political parties are themselves the instrument of oppression since their programme is one of opportunism and thus underwrites dictatorship which alone can grant them their place of illusory power, standing between the masses and the real power structure.

The Psychosis of Systems-Society

The very frame, structure, pattern of society, which had until now seemed actual, solid, founded on material itself has now begun to fragment, disintegrate and collapse. As it does so, a further condition is revealed, simply that that very frame was in itself illusory, a simulation of stuff, a non-existent presence sustained by a mathematic of ever multiplying dementia so that where before it had a decimal connection to things, that in turn had so increased that from hundreds to thousands it had hurtled into being millions. In the final phase of its enmeshing power it had turned into billions and ultimately, trillions.

The political class who had been set there to extract payment of these - now unpayable - sums, tried in vain to break the public's will and force payment of a debt they, the political class had underwritten. It was not called a debt, but rather, to veil the whole procedure, the deficit.

When the masses rioted, from New York to Athens, radical action against the political class was due. They had failed their masters, the bankers. In Athens a leftist government was replaced by a non-elected entity with an outsider as leader. He was called a technocrat. He was, in fact, a banker.  In Rome a rightest government was replaced by a non-elected entity with an outsider as leader. He was called a technocrat. He was, in fact, a banker.

It had finally happened: le Coup de Banque!