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Today’s Arabs “Unthinking Automatons”
August 29, 2010 · Mustapha Hamoui
Rami Khoury looks at Arab citizens and doesn’t like what he sees:
They share in transforming their states into shopping malls, their identities into categories of security clearances, and their humanity into unthinking automatons who wave the flag on command, cheer on cue, and otherwise restrict the exercise of their rational, emotional and creative human dimensions to subservience, acquiescence, and obedience in the political and social spheres.
A fancy way of saying: “We’re screwed”.