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Drugs
Abyss(2)
If civilizations were
governed by the principle of low and high tide that governs seas and oceans,
Lebanon was in the fifties, sixties and mid of seventies decades of the last
century in a stage of civilized rising tide which was on the point of making it
one of the world first states, the most secure and safe shelter as well as an
incentive for all intellectuals in the Arab World and a safe refuge to capitals
which the black gold transformed to yellow gold. So Lebanon became the oasis of
the renaissance thoughts aspiring to rationality and to build a sufficiency and
justice society respecting human rights and equaling between man and woman form
one side, and the economic as well as financial investment oasis from the other
side.
In this atmosphere the
cultivation of hashish and opium was prospering in Lebanon, where the statistics
say that around seventy thousand acres were planted with those two types, and so
millions of hard currency were flowing. But what draws the attention at that
time, and also according to official statistics, that the rate of drug addicts
was not exceeding two percent. How do we explain the phenomenon of people
planting cannabis and opium, marketing abroad without taking it or addicting to
it, knowing that their act is offending and harm to others exists even if they
prevent themselves from its direct harm, harm will definitely come back to them?
In our opinion what helped them to beautify the inconveniences of this
phenomenon is that the Lebanese community at that golden stage was united,
coherent and consolidated having a rising civilized vision lighting the fire of
chivalry between its ribs. The family was a social cell having its values scale
and its members were interacting with each other positively, moving as life and
team work coherent and consolidated. The written mass media and television were
governed by a vision of Lebanon being the country of civilizations, languages,
religions and capitals interactions. All were believers and were struggling in
order to make Lebanon the stock exchange, the bank, the university, the tribune,
the hospital, the hotel and the translator of the Arab World. In the shadow of
this rising fact on the social, intellectual and economic level, we produced a
lot of drugs as marketing merchandise giving a hard currency, and they did not
realize its difficulties, or the effects of its stagnant waters and its
disasters.
Today, if we go back to the
American report concerning drugs fighting published in 2009, we would have find
that Lebanon is not anymore a country producing drugs, especially that the
Narcotics Control Bureau has destroyed those most evil cultures with an energy
that does not know fatigue or submission. But the rate of consuming drugs
increased in Lebanon to reach around 27%, and also it turned from hashish to
chemical drugs promoted in the markets at low prices allowing even the teenagers
to obtain have access to them. if we were logic we would have said that there
were networks that intend to market those products in schools and universities,
and among poor classes in order to destroy the scale of those classes values
whose real capital is their ethics and honor, so that whole generations will be
born that do not have a future vision to their life, and goals to achieve and
that stimulate them to the best. They will live in nil and absurd centers in a
dismantled social framework allowing them to legalize prohibitions and commit
perversities standing against customs, traditions and cultures. May be it is a
conspiracy against Man in Lebanon to lose his civilized personality and original
values in thousand years old society. It is a conspiracy to attack the
affiliation principle, whether the affiliation of man to the land, to the
society or to a civilization having its own mark despite its openness to all
civilizations.
The goal behind the
promotion of cheap drugs, accompanied with pornographic, perverse sexual films
promotion, and with lack of correct, healthy and scientific knowledge among
people, is to give false impressions to young girls and young men, to obliterate
their minds with corrupted illusions harmful to the body, to the soul and to the
mind, so they will be lead by rumors, illusions and superstitions that becomes
stronger than proven facts.
We come back to ask the
big question: Why Lebanon before the civil war was immunized against drugs in
spite of being a drugs producing country, and why Lebanon today is a country
ravaged by drugs in spite of not being a producing country anymore? The answer
in our opinion is that yesterday Lebanon was governed by teleology philosophy
that considers Man the aim of this existence, and defines it as a rational
being, free, responsible and sociable by nature, that must immunize his
rationality by bearing responsibility materialized on the society ground by a
positive and constructive interaction with others.
Today Lebanon is governed
by absurd philosophy making the human being a consuming creature (which purpose
is quick pleasure), drowned in its nullity, and in the absurdity of
superstitions, illusions and rituals lacking of even the least truth essence.
The worse is that those superstitions put sometimes the clothes of religious
thoughts by not differentiating between the essences of religions and popular
religious cultures most of which born in the era of deterioration from which in
our opinion we did not get out yet unfortunately.
Finally, we say that the
problem of drug addiction is not only a security problem, as it is considered
currently in Lebanon, but it is a social, economic and cultural problem, and its
treatment is not limited to the security body, but a comprehensive plan must be
placed in which the Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Youth and parents should
participate through starting, awareness and faith, health, human, religious and
scientific culture, in which schools, clubs, associations and factories
participate. Briefly, the problem should be treated on the basis that it is a
moral problem and not a security problem.
Kamal Sarieddinne
contributed in the preparation of the text.
Issued on October
01, 2010
Unitarian
knowledge
Issued by Druze
Unitarian confession Sheikhdom Office
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