Today's struggle for survival in Gaza is the struggle of all humanity for liberation from the power of this tyrannical man (Getty Images).
Man is ashamed of himself while sitting in front of a television screen or any screen of smart devices to follow the analysis of analysts and experts of what is happening in Gaza in terms of displacement, displacement and the loss of the lives of innocent children, women and the elderly.
This feeling of shame comes from a sense of helplessness, not the inability to understand what is happening, but the inability to act, move and influence the course of events.
What is more shameful than the fact that the entire world is unable to impose a ceasefire and bomb unarmed civilians from the sky? We thought that humanity had made strides in civilization, and that our world had adopted legal norms and a moral system that did not allow genocide of peoples and scenes of ethnic cleansing and mass displacement.
The horror that is happening in Gaza today questions the human conscience more than all the terrible events throughout history. Never before has humanity witnessed first-hand human massacres.
One of the characteristics of a metamodern or supramodern society is that it is a society that begs technological tools to download all content, news and meanings, whether from old or new times, whether from here or there;
These massacres in previous eras used to reach man in the form of news, and news bears truthfulness, as well as lies, and they may also be subject to exaggerations of the tongue, and this may explain the confusion of positions and hesitation in judgments. However, today, as we witness in audio and video the horror of what is happening in Gaza, we do not have room for interpretation or scrutiny of sources and news; either we accept the horror of what is happening in Gaza in our time, or we reject it.
We believe that divine teachings and human laws do not accept any justification - no matter how rational - to justify the heinous crimes against human beings taking place in Gaza.
Therefore, we wonder about the nature of the age to which we belong, and how such crimes are allowed, is it the age of modernity, postmodernism, or a new era whose secrets have not yet been revealed and whose features have not yet been revealed? Gaza asks us, "Where are we going?"
Some believe that today we are emerging from the postmodern stage to enter a new era in which a new civilizational horizon is drawn. Some tend to call the new time period "postmodern," despite its thinness.
Some of them prefer the word "metamodernity" / metamodernism, and they carry on (meta) the meaning of "above" or "beyond" instead of its original meaning, which is useful for "after" in the Greek language, just like (Post) Latin.
As I read Hanzi Freinacht's book on The Listening Society – a book that includes a serious attempt to describe the features of "metamodern" society – I wondered: Is Gaza interested in such a statement? The answer was: Yes, Gaza is interested in knowing under the roof of what time it is today annihilated; is it the time of modernity, postmodernism, or supermodernity?
Gaza is being annihilated in a transitional phase, between a time that proved the bankruptcy of its mental and moral system, which is the postmodern era in which modernity was dismantled, and a new time that theorists say will combine the advantages of heritage and modernity, and postmodernism and elevate man to a higher degree in humanity, and allow the realization of what this man has dreamed of throughout history.
One of the characteristics of a metamodern or postmodern society is that it is a society that begs technological tools to download all content, news and meaning, whether from old or new times, whether from here or there; it also has the advantage of simplifying what is happening around the world in front of the eyes of the world.
It is as if with technological tools we are able to penetrate all the depths, the depth of history and the depth of reality, everything that has become visible and visible. This leads us to believe that the crime arena will narrow in the face of the expansion of the arena of virtue, and that our time will not accommodate crimes such as the crimes in Gaza.
Unfortunately, the world's reaction to the events in Gaza proves to us that our situation in the time to which we are moving is no better than our situation in the time from which we are moving in.
It is true that images of the genocide in Gaza now fill all screens, but they are equally casual images, which hardly settle in consciousness or imagination until they are followed by other images, images of naked bodies, footage from football matches, jokes, scientific information, or entertaining scenes. It is as if the images of genocide become part of other images that pave and prepare the general scene, to meet the human desire to continue to turn the gaze on what has happened and is happening at all times and places.
The expected time is not more merciful to Gaza than the foreseeable time, but it is an extension of the times of man, this man whom I have characterized as coercion and tyranny. Modernity, postmodernism, and postmodernism are merely labels that hide authoritarianism, tyranny, and enslavement.
Today's struggle for survival is the struggle of all humanity for liberation from the power of this tyrannical man who tends to enslave others, subjugate them by oppression and the power of arms.
Here, I cannot fail to echo the words of the late Kenneth White, calling for a way out of the "West's highway". Through this phrase, White asserts that the crisis is too big to be solved by simply moving from modernity to postmodernism, and then postmodernism, as if we were entering the judgment of asking for a break from something familiar by resorting to something new.
Ridding societies of the crisis in which they are floundering today requires another human being, other than the man of brute material force, the man who is arrogant with his technical superiority, who is immersed in one dimension.
In this context, I am reminded of another word that Kenneth White used to repeat to us, when he spoke of the man we should look to, he said: We need Postman, meaning the postman, or, in the figurative sense, the man who carries us a message, instead of Postman, in the sense of the man who comes to succeed the man of modernity, just as postmodernism is intended to succeed modernity.
The events in Gaza rearrange our relations with ourselves and others, and invite us to get out of the captivity of the Western time, in which the American-Israeli alliance reached the end of resorting to force and denying the moral values that are controlled by the "piety" officer, that is, with the moral force that man finds in himself, in order to restrain his material power from speculation and exaggeration in destruction and sabotage.
This kind of human being, produced by the Western, Israeli-American time, has become a machine that does not forbid modesty to bury children alive. This marks the end of faith, the deification of man and the attainment of the summit in aggression and tyranny.
There is no doubt that the moral bankruptcy – embodied in the systematic destruction of the causes of life in Gaza – will cause many people – of different races and ethnicities, including many Westerners – to emerge in droves from a time of material deification of man, towards another time horizon, a moral-religious time.
There are ample signs that the world today is still divided between two Palestinians: Fustat invokes the "enlightened" human mind to justify the extermination of others; and Fustat clings to morality to preserve the human soul. One can no longer stand on the sidelines.
The events in Gaza have come to slap us and awaken us from the dreams of the Western time, to which the hearts of the worlds have been having. We rest on the belief that the heinous manifestations of destruction perpetrated in the name of civilization, reason and enlightenment have reached such a degree of cruelty, violence, foolishness and madness that they have become in the eyes of those who look at savagery, lack of reason and obscurantism.
The reckless behaviour of people claiming to belong to civilization, democracy and the human rights system has become so impressive that one no longer knows a face to read.
After the events in Gaza, the West – in its political, institutional, media and military sense – became smaller in the eyes of the peoples of the earth, especially in the eyes of the Arab and Islamic peoples, even as if it were no longer a thing, after these peoples saw it as great.