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As you sit on your plush chair near your personal library, away from sources of noise and human voices inside your home and those coming from the adjacent street, the story you are reading pulls you into distant alleys and characters with dark psyches who hold closed dialogues with themselves and their ghosts. You feel a tightness creeping from the pages into your heart, so you throw the book and grab your phone as if grabbing a lifeline, and from there to social media, where the door of the greatest circus opens, turning your mood upside down without giving you a chance to slip away or escape the grip of endless scrolling!

In those accounts and sites lies a world of glamour, sounds, names, and news: the strange and new, people, countries, cities, and islands, festivals, conferences, football matches, and planet-sized stars, love stories, war, marriage, and betrayal, men training women in belly dancing, women talking about amazing success stories in managing wrestling clubs and gyms, and many people full of ignorance and arrogance holding dialogues, evaluating creators and geniuses in literature, culture, science, and football... a world of contradictions, noise, obsession with fame, and lies!

The hard truth that cannot be penetrated is that much of social media does nothing more dangerous than fueling arrogance and consecrating the vulgar and ignorant, exporting them to us as opinion makers and leaders, under misleading and provocative labels such as: celebrities, influencers, and content creators!

Despite the valuable information and exciting knowledge that surprise and delight us, the empty stories and tales made to fill the void of the moment, or to distract people from what is more important, and the paid free battles that may drag your feet into their mud, all strengthen your belief in the value of your opinion, silence, books, and the blessing of the mind. Trading in problems, crises, differences, and oddities has become the shortest way to spread and gather followers. All you have to do is launch a resounding scandal, promote a disaster that hasn't happened, act contrary to standards of ethics, logic, and human taste, curse if you can, insult, and antagonize someone for no reason. In short, you just have to turn into a stupid machine for producing scandals, battles, and differences!

Translated from "Al Bayan"

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