The wasted human

Publication date: 01/01/2021 Publisher: Arab Cultural Center Type: Paperback, regular cover Publisher's note: The file addresses the multiple forms, levels, and colors of human wastefulness: starting with the waste of blood, criminalization, prohibition, negation, and expulsion inside and outside the homeland, and tyranny and its mechanisms of control over behavior and taming of living energies, passing through the waste of thought, awareness, youth, and institutions, and ending with existential wastefulness in daily life. This waste, which may reach the level of existential disease, makes every discussion of democracy and development a trivial matter as long as the fundamental and binding condition is not met — the recognition of the human as valuable, esteemed, protected, capable, and aware. Every person in our world has their share of wastefulness, which varies in shape and amount, hindering or obstructing the project of building a quality life and shaping the future. The general goal of this work is to raise awareness of visible and hidden cases of wastefulness and to uncover their mechanisms, as a necessary step to confront them and to undertake the mission of reclaiming the human dignity of humans. It presents, for this purpose, an anti-waste perspective based on positive thinking and positive feelings towards the self, serving empowerment and psychological well-being. This work is far from comprehensive in addressing issues, and it is also far from providing definitive answers. Its main ambition is to initiate a mechanism of thinking, dialogue, critique, negation, and opening new horizons of research, leading to insight and reflection.