كانت إحدى الأمهات كلما أغضبها ابنها الشقيّ، تدعو عليه بقولها (الله يغديك فُرجة)، وهذا قبل أن تطغى الفُرجة على العالم، وفي زمن لم يكن عند المجتمعات المنتجة أوقات تتسع ليتفرّج بعضهم على بعض، ولم أسمع عبارة (نتفرج) إلا عندما دخل التلفزيون بيوتنا، وحتى مناسبات العرضة التي تقام في الزواجات، لم يكن يُطلق على متابعتها (فُرْجَة) بل يقول عُشاقها: (هيا نغدي نخيّل في العرضة)، ولا أدري نخيّل من الخيال، أو التخييل، والمصطلحات ليست عبثيّة عند من نحتها.
ولربما، كانت إحدى إشكالات المرحلة، صعوبة الحكم على حالات، بأنها واعية تنويرية، أو جامدة تقليدية، فالظاهر والباطن، متصلان منفصلان؛ وربما كان أحدهما خادعاً، أو مراوغاً، أو انتهازيّاً، وما بين الحداثة والتجديد، والتقليدية والجمود، مسافات تزداد وتنقص بحسب دواعي التقهقر للوراء، ومساعي المُضيّ إلى الأمام، وليس كُلّ مضيّ؛ مُضيّاً ولا مُضيئاً، إذ إن البعض يمضي بالشكل دون الجوهر، أو بالمبنى دون المعنى، وبالجسد فقط، لا بالروح ولا بالعقل، ولأن الحياة رحلة سيرورة عقلانية؛ فإنها لا تنتظر أحداً، وليست مسؤولة عن تعثّر المتأخرين ولا المتخلفين.
ويُدرك علماء الاجتماع، وعلماء النفس؛ أكثر من غيرهم ما للمورثات الجينية، والبيئة الاجتماعية، والظروف الاقتصادية من أدوار في بناء شخصياتنا، التي يراها بعضهم سويّة، ويراها البعض معتلّة، والسويّة والاعتلال ربما لا تكون أحكاماً موضوعية، كون من يطلقها يحتكم إلى ردّة فعله تجاه تصرّف أو سلوك، وردات الفعل غالباً ذاتية، وعاطفية، والذهاب إلى العُمق في تشخيص حالة أو ظاهرة ما، مدعاة للغرق، والإبحار دون بوصلة متاهة، والذين ادّعوا أنهم (فهموا) كُنه الصور والمراحل الضبابية تورّطوا.
أزعمُ أن الشكل لا يُنبئ عن المضمون (الجوهر) في كل الأحوال، وفي الحديث النبوي (ربّ أشعث أغبر مدفوع بالأبواب لو أقسم على الله لأبرّه) وكم نعرف أناساً فنقول ليتنا لم نعرفهم، ونعرف آخرين ونقول؛ ليتنا عرفناهم من زمن متقدّم، والانطباع الأول ربما يُكبّد صاحبه ثمناً فادحاً، وكما قيل: المظاهر خدّاعة، ومجتمع الفُرجة لا يعطيك صورة حقيقية عن واقع الشخص، كالنص الحزين الذي يكتبه أديب وهو في ذروة وناسته؛ والشاعرة القرويّة انتبهت لتحسين الشكل (الهيكل) وخراب (الماكينة) وهي تقول: (يزبرقون الغمارة والبلا جُوّا).
ومن مظاهر الطفرة، والصحوة، بروز شرائح مجتمعية، لم تكن تحلم بما حققته من ظهور اقتصادي واجتماعي، فالثراء ألبسها لبوساً غير لبوسها الأصلي، والتديّن الشكّلي منحها القبول والثقة المُفرطة، وكما قال الإمام عليّ كرّم الله وجهه (إذا أقبلت الدنيا على عبد كسته محاسن غيره، وإن أدبرتْ عن عبد سلبته محاسن نفسه)، والتديّن في زمن الصحوة يخلق مثالية مبنيّة على الشكل الخارجي، والهيئة المتديّنة؛ والمال، من وسائل الكسب والوصول السريع إلى كل ما يصعب الوصول إليه، بحساب المادية والشكلانيّة.
لعلي أميلُ إلى عدم نبش ماضي البشر، لتشويه أو تعكير مزاج حاضرهم، لكن الظواهر تُدْرس قبل أن تندرس معالمها، ومن ذلك اندراج الصحوي في الحداثة، وتمثّل الثري أخلاق الكادحين، علماً بأن المرئي لا يكشف الخفي، ومن غير الحكمة إحسان الظن في الوعي، بمجرد قراءة تغريدة أو مقالة أو مشاهدة موقف توحي بالتمدن، كما من الحماقة إطلاق وصف نزيه على إداري مطاطي الذمة، فكما يتستّر الظلامي بالتنوير كي لا ينكشف، يتغنّى المطاطي بالنزاهة والأنظمة والرزق الحلال، لتفادي سوء الظن به، والأمور ليست على ظاهرها دوماً.
والحداثة، تفترض الانتقال من تقليدية الأفكار والسلوك إلى التمدين والتحديث، في الشكل والجوهر، بالعلم والثقافة والأدب والفن؛ إلا أنها لا تُلغي القِيم؛ وعلى رأسها، الصدق، والأمانة؛ والعدل، والأخلاق؛ ولجهل البعض بمفهومها، انبرى للاذعان لمتطلبات السوق، ظناً أنها حداثة، والمُحزن غرق جوهر هذه الأجسام الحديثة شكلاً في التقليدية حدّ تسليمه بالخرافات والشائعات والعصبيّة والعنصرية والعبثيّة.
ولعل الطبيعي أن يكون لكل عصر تقدميته، ورجعيته، والتقدمي ليس متهوراً بالضرورة، ولا الرجعي جباناً حتماً، فالمحفّز لتمثّل ما نميل إليه، وما نؤمن به، متصل بالجوهر، الذي ربما كان ناصحاً أميناً، أو غاشّاً أو مغشوشاً، والبعض يلجأ إلى تدريب نفسه على تمثيل كل الأدوار، ولا يستعيب من التلوّن بحسب الموقع والموقف، علماً بأن المتلوّن يغدو مادة فُرجة، في حين يرفض بعضناً أن يكون معرضاً أو (بينالي) للفرجة، يعتني بديكوراته لشد انتباه الزوّار، ولو غدا مثار سخرية، ونقد لاذع، فيوصف بالفارغ، والهشّ؛ والديكوري، الشكلاني، ولا ينتبه إلى أن ما هو عليه من (أراجوزية) لا علاقة له بالحداثة؛ بل مرتبط بجذور، وتراكمات، وعوارض نقص، نظراً لما لحق به أو بأسلافه من تهميش، أو استهانة مجتمعية، أو فاقة وعَوَز فهو معنيٌّ بالتعويض ولا سبيل إلى ذلك إلا بالتحوّل إلى (فُرْجة) وكأنّه ربي استجاب دعاء أمّه (الله يغديك فُرْجة).
ويبدو أن التواصل الاجتماعي والعهد الرقمي انتصر لأبطال ومشاهير، ممن يجيدون (رزّة النفس)، وسخّرتهم ليكونوا مادة عرض، أو استعراض؛ ومن اللافت أن جرأة البعض تتجاوز حدود اللياقة، لكن كثرة الشين لا تعني نُدرة الزين، فالتواصل الاجتماعي مثلما يبرز الغثاء في الأعلى، يحفظ حق ما ينفع الناس، وتسويق الضار لا يلغي النافع، وإذا كان البعض لا يتبرّم من الاحتيال على الله؛ فلن يتورّع عن الاحتيال على خلقه.
في زمن الفُرجة، يغدو المعروض (العارض نفسه) أقرب لسلعة، أو بضاعة، ومن البضائع رخيص، ومنها نفيس، وليس كل من تغنّى بالحداثة حضاريّاً في حداثته؛ وكم رأينا وسمعنا وعشنا تجارب، مع من أوهمنا أنه مُغرم بالحداثة، وردد مصطلحاتها، وحفظ مناهجها، ودرّس أدبياتها، إلا أن الإخفاق يلازمه عند أوّل اختبار ومحكّ، فيغدو (فُرجة).
تلويحة؛
من الحكم المتوارثة (لا تُعاشِر نفساً شبعت بعد جوع فإن الخير فيها دخيل، وعاشر نفساً جاعت بعد شبع فإن الخير فيها أصيل).
تابع قناة عكاظ على الواتساب
One of the mothers, whenever her mischievous son upset her, would pray against him by saying, "May God grant you a spectacle," and this was before the spectacle overwhelmed the world, in a time when productive societies did not have the leisure to watch each other. I had not heard the phrase "let's watch" until television entered our homes, and even during the events of the traditional dance held at weddings, it was not referred to as "spectacle," but rather its enthusiasts would say, "Let’s go enjoy the dance," and I do not know if "enjoy" comes from imagination or from the act of imagining, as terms are not arbitrary for those who coined them.
Perhaps one of the challenges of the era was the difficulty of judging cases as either conscious and enlightening or rigid and traditional; the apparent and the hidden are connected yet separate; and perhaps one of them is deceptive, or evasive, or opportunistic. Between modernity and renewal, and tradition and rigidity, there are distances that increase and decrease depending on the motivations for regressing backward and the efforts to move forward. Not every progress is truly progress or enlightening, as some advance in form without essence, or in structure without meaning, and with the body only, not with the spirit or the mind. Since life is a rational journey, it does not wait for anyone and is not responsible for the stumbling of the latecomers or the laggards.
Social scientists and psychologists understand better than others the roles that genetic inheritances, social environments, and economic conditions play in shaping our personalities, which some see as sound and others see as flawed. The sound and the flawed may not be objective judgments, as those who issue them rely on their reactions to a behavior or action, and reactions are often subjective and emotional. Delving deeply into diagnosing a case or phenomenon can lead to drowning and sailing without a compass in a maze, and those who claimed to have "understood" the essence of images and foggy stages found themselves entangled.
I assert that form does not necessarily indicate content (essence) in all cases. In the prophetic saying, "Perhaps a disheveled and dusty person, pushed away from the doors, if he swore by God, He would fulfill his oath," how many people do we know and wish we hadn't, and how many others do we know and wish we had known earlier? The first impression can cost its owner dearly, and as it is said: appearances are deceiving. The spectacle society does not give you a true image of a person's reality, like the sad text written by a writer who is at the height of his joy; and the rural poet noticed the improvement of form (structure) and the ruin of (the machine) when she said, "They decorate the tent while the trash is inside."
Among the manifestations of the boom and awakening is the emergence of social segments that never dreamed of achieving the economic and social visibility they have now. Wealth has clothed them in a guise different from their original one, and superficial religiosity has granted them acceptance and excessive confidence. As Imam Ali, may God honor his face, said, "When the world approaches a servant, it dresses him in the virtues of others, and when it turns away from a servant, it strips him of his own virtues." Religiosity in the time of awakening creates an idealism based on external form and religious appearance; and money is one of the means of quick gain and access to everything that is difficult to reach, based on materialism and formalism.
I tend to avoid digging into people's pasts to distort or tarnish the mood of their present, but phenomena must be studied before their features fade. This includes the integration of the awakening into modernity and the wealthy embodying the morals of the laborers, knowing that the visible does not reveal the hidden. It is unwise to assume good faith in awareness merely by reading a tweet, an article, or witnessing a situation that suggests civilization, just as it is foolish to label a flexible administrator as honest. Just as the dark one conceals himself with enlightenment to avoid exposure, the flexible one boasts of integrity, regulations, and lawful earnings to avoid suspicion, and matters are not always as they appear.
Modernity assumes a transition from traditional ideas and behaviors to civilization and modernization, in both form and essence, through knowledge, culture, literature, and art; yet it does not negate values, foremost among them honesty, integrity, justice, and ethics. Due to some people's ignorance of its concept, they hastily submit to market demands, thinking it is modernity. The sad thing is that the essence of these modern forms is drowning in traditionalism to the point of surrendering to superstitions, rumors, tribalism, racism, and absurdity.
It is natural for every era to have its progressives and regressives, and being progressive does not necessarily mean being reckless, nor does being regressive mean being cowardly. The motivation to embody what we lean towards and believe in is connected to the essence, which may be genuinely good, or deceptive, or misleading. Some resort to training themselves to represent all roles and do not shy away from changing colors according to the site and situation, knowing that the chameleon becomes a spectacle, while some of us refuse to be an exhibit or a (biennale) for spectacle, caring for its decorations to attract visitors, even if it becomes a source of mockery and harsh criticism, being described as empty, fragile, and superficial. They do not realize that what they are in (the absurdity) has nothing to do with modernity; rather, it is linked to roots, accumulations, and deficiencies, due to the marginalization or societal disdain they or their ancestors have suffered, or poverty and need. They are concerned with compensation, and the only way to achieve that is to transform into a "spectacle," as if their Lord has answered their mother's prayer, "May God grant you a spectacle."
It seems that social media and the digital age have favored heroes and celebrities who excel in "self-promotion," making them material for display or exhibition. It is striking that some people's boldness exceeds the limits of propriety, but the abundance of the ugly does not mean the rarity of the beautiful. Social media, just as it highlights the trivial at the top, preserves the right to what benefits people, and marketing the harmful does not negate the beneficial. If some do not shy away from deceiving God, they will not hesitate to deceive His creation.
In the age of spectacle, what is presented (the presenter himself) becomes closer to a commodity or merchandise, with some goods being cheap and others precious. Not everyone who boasts of modernity is civilized in their modernity; how many have we seen, heard, and lived experiences with those who deceived us into thinking they were enamored with modernity, repeating its terms, memorizing its curricula, and teaching its literature, yet failure accompanies them at the first test and trial, turning them into a "spectacle."
A gesture;
Among the inherited wisdom is, "Do not associate with a soul that has been sated after hunger, for goodness in it is foreign; and associate with a soul that has been hungry after satiety, for goodness in it is genuine."
Perhaps one of the challenges of the era was the difficulty of judging cases as either conscious and enlightening or rigid and traditional; the apparent and the hidden are connected yet separate; and perhaps one of them is deceptive, or evasive, or opportunistic. Between modernity and renewal, and tradition and rigidity, there are distances that increase and decrease depending on the motivations for regressing backward and the efforts to move forward. Not every progress is truly progress or enlightening, as some advance in form without essence, or in structure without meaning, and with the body only, not with the spirit or the mind. Since life is a rational journey, it does not wait for anyone and is not responsible for the stumbling of the latecomers or the laggards.
Social scientists and psychologists understand better than others the roles that genetic inheritances, social environments, and economic conditions play in shaping our personalities, which some see as sound and others see as flawed. The sound and the flawed may not be objective judgments, as those who issue them rely on their reactions to a behavior or action, and reactions are often subjective and emotional. Delving deeply into diagnosing a case or phenomenon can lead to drowning and sailing without a compass in a maze, and those who claimed to have "understood" the essence of images and foggy stages found themselves entangled.
I assert that form does not necessarily indicate content (essence) in all cases. In the prophetic saying, "Perhaps a disheveled and dusty person, pushed away from the doors, if he swore by God, He would fulfill his oath," how many people do we know and wish we hadn't, and how many others do we know and wish we had known earlier? The first impression can cost its owner dearly, and as it is said: appearances are deceiving. The spectacle society does not give you a true image of a person's reality, like the sad text written by a writer who is at the height of his joy; and the rural poet noticed the improvement of form (structure) and the ruin of (the machine) when she said, "They decorate the tent while the trash is inside."
Among the manifestations of the boom and awakening is the emergence of social segments that never dreamed of achieving the economic and social visibility they have now. Wealth has clothed them in a guise different from their original one, and superficial religiosity has granted them acceptance and excessive confidence. As Imam Ali, may God honor his face, said, "When the world approaches a servant, it dresses him in the virtues of others, and when it turns away from a servant, it strips him of his own virtues." Religiosity in the time of awakening creates an idealism based on external form and religious appearance; and money is one of the means of quick gain and access to everything that is difficult to reach, based on materialism and formalism.
I tend to avoid digging into people's pasts to distort or tarnish the mood of their present, but phenomena must be studied before their features fade. This includes the integration of the awakening into modernity and the wealthy embodying the morals of the laborers, knowing that the visible does not reveal the hidden. It is unwise to assume good faith in awareness merely by reading a tweet, an article, or witnessing a situation that suggests civilization, just as it is foolish to label a flexible administrator as honest. Just as the dark one conceals himself with enlightenment to avoid exposure, the flexible one boasts of integrity, regulations, and lawful earnings to avoid suspicion, and matters are not always as they appear.
Modernity assumes a transition from traditional ideas and behaviors to civilization and modernization, in both form and essence, through knowledge, culture, literature, and art; yet it does not negate values, foremost among them honesty, integrity, justice, and ethics. Due to some people's ignorance of its concept, they hastily submit to market demands, thinking it is modernity. The sad thing is that the essence of these modern forms is drowning in traditionalism to the point of surrendering to superstitions, rumors, tribalism, racism, and absurdity.
It is natural for every era to have its progressives and regressives, and being progressive does not necessarily mean being reckless, nor does being regressive mean being cowardly. The motivation to embody what we lean towards and believe in is connected to the essence, which may be genuinely good, or deceptive, or misleading. Some resort to training themselves to represent all roles and do not shy away from changing colors according to the site and situation, knowing that the chameleon becomes a spectacle, while some of us refuse to be an exhibit or a (biennale) for spectacle, caring for its decorations to attract visitors, even if it becomes a source of mockery and harsh criticism, being described as empty, fragile, and superficial. They do not realize that what they are in (the absurdity) has nothing to do with modernity; rather, it is linked to roots, accumulations, and deficiencies, due to the marginalization or societal disdain they or their ancestors have suffered, or poverty and need. They are concerned with compensation, and the only way to achieve that is to transform into a "spectacle," as if their Lord has answered their mother's prayer, "May God grant you a spectacle."
It seems that social media and the digital age have favored heroes and celebrities who excel in "self-promotion," making them material for display or exhibition. It is striking that some people's boldness exceeds the limits of propriety, but the abundance of the ugly does not mean the rarity of the beautiful. Social media, just as it highlights the trivial at the top, preserves the right to what benefits people, and marketing the harmful does not negate the beneficial. If some do not shy away from deceiving God, they will not hesitate to deceive His creation.
In the age of spectacle, what is presented (the presenter himself) becomes closer to a commodity or merchandise, with some goods being cheap and others precious. Not everyone who boasts of modernity is civilized in their modernity; how many have we seen, heard, and lived experiences with those who deceived us into thinking they were enamored with modernity, repeating its terms, memorizing its curricula, and teaching its literature, yet failure accompanies them at the first test and trial, turning them into a "spectacle."
A gesture;
Among the inherited wisdom is, "Do not associate with a soul that has been sated after hunger, for goodness in it is foreign; and associate with a soul that has been hungry after satiety, for goodness in it is genuine."


