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Seventh: idea five — unifying the public and the private

Seventh: idea five — unifying the public and the private

Point 7 of 13 — Lesson 1: The Will of Change by Dr Zaki Naguib MahmoudQuestion bank: 0 questions (0 with pictures)

07Seventh: idea five — unifying the public and the private

  • The will of change will not take "so much as a fingertip's width" out of our lives unless we make in our minds a complete unification of the public and the private.

What is wrong with the reality, as he pictured it

  • We care for private property and neglect public property, by an inherited social tradition.
  • We see a great gulf between caring for one's own son and caring for the distant fellow-citizen.
  • And between cleaning the house inside and cleaning the street.
  • And between private money and the money the state holds for everyone.
  • And between the private clinic run by the doctor and the public hospital run by the very same doctor in the name of the state.

"I and we" versus "he and they"

  • Our concern is still confined to "I" and "we" — that is, the family and its borders.
  • As for "he" and "they", which take in all the children of the homeland, they are still in our imagining as ghosts whom neither starving nor torturing can hurt.
  • What is required is that the meaning of "we" should widen to include all the citizens.

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