I’m ashamed of myself. Again, when it was time to stand my ground, I just simply retreated and gave up. In Arabic culture, courage is only men’s theme. So, apparently for a lot of Arabs perspective; I may be missing one or more testis. Nevertheless, I believe women did satisfy the role of bravery, more than what men did. Sometimes, it’s true that women defend men. Despite that, females are so fragile, and males are too abusive. Regardless, Arabs have a hard time to apply what they say or think of. This could be applied to ideologies more, as it’s applied to races, and it is restated like this: Muslims, in general, don’t do what they believe into.
The argument is extended to define what beliefs are. Why do we disobey what we believe into? That means there is a conflict between the initial instincts, and the later teaching or orientations. This drives me to the main core point: is good intention something we are born with, or acquired later on? The model I want to use is Adam and Eve, they were wondering naked in heavens. Later on, when they ate from whatever fruit it’s, they decided to cover their nudity. In some explanation, the fruit was nothing more than symbol of knowledge. So, they were born naïve, and when they learned, they acted based on their knowledge.
I am failing to prove my point. As I tend to believe that, humans are born with a built in drives to do good things. Apparently, Freud, and religion disagree with me. So, how to approach my aim? In philosophy, there’s an argument regarding what comes first, information or theory. I did propose my idea, and I would start to gather information to support it. I did introduce you to my main difference regarding Freud’s Pleasure Drive Principle. Maybe, afterward we need to discuss the modified principle: Beyond the Pleasure Principe.
The other point I would suggest, beside the built in good intention drive, is Super Id. I mentioned few weeks earlier that; the more the super ego suppress the id, the id responds extremely once the super ego disappears. Therefore, if an individual, called ((Ex)), spent first 18 years in Austria, where Freud did live, and later on our experimental human, Ex, moved to Saudi Arabia, where Ahmed lives. The ego equilibrium would be disturbed, in the sense a lot of what was accepted socially, in Austria, would be rejected in Saudi Arabia. This holds its own value for me, as Ex would be confused for a lot of conscious apparatus would be deported to the unconscious. This would formulate the super id, which is the state of absent super ego, as it’s displaced by super id. Ex would express everything, people wants to hide, publicly.
What has happened to Ex simply is the absent of higher moral models. I don’t mean that Austrians are not morals. However, Ex doesn’t know about morals in Saudi Arabia, therefore, Ex is rebelling against all the models. Ex current status would be explained by some psychiatrist as anti-social behavior. The other trick, I want to emphasis on, is as super id is formulated in the absence of higher moral model, it presents also in the presence of very tight and not reachable moral model. This is the problem of me, and my current generation, can we fulfill what old people want us to do? They consider everything we do is super id, as they reject it, and we do it in front of them. The other problem in super id, we consider whatever we do as a correct action.
I am not convinced by whatever rubbish I just had mentioned. However, this is a project worth working on. The main idea has something to do with the situation I’ve been through 5 or 6 weeks ago. I had a practical exam in children medicine. One of the stations was examining a young girl heart. The doctor, with a long beard, was sitting away from the bed, and he just gave me the instructions. I was confused, should I really touch this girl? I asked him about her age, she’s 11 years old. And from first gaze, she was disabled mentally, and attended by a maid. The picture formulated in my head; the children medicine department, is making advantage of this young, helpless, and neglected girl. I wanted to refuse examining her, but with all shame shall follow me, I did examine her. Muslims, either students or doctors, don’t do what they believe into.
