Egypt's current political situation, the up-rise of the peasants against the corrupted government; the rise of the price of a barrel of oil to 100 bucks. It all sounds too familiar. I've heard it last year. Exactly the same as what I heard, even the figures and the year. From a video made two years back. From a reliable source. I won't state that video's title or that person's name. It's a sensitive issue. I'm actually regretting not stating clearly about this matter. I only wrote :

On occasions, I have been intrigued by the pattern I saw which is that (World)History repeats itself in all forms even though efforts are made to try to prevent them from happening, on massive scales. But now as new information made their way into my attention, me being me starts to try to get to the bottom of it. Why? Circumstances? Man-made circumstances? Human flaws? The result of the continuous old battle between devil and angel? Solution? All questions, no concrete solutions. Freak!! I seriously pray that it's 'no concrete solutions yet'.

(Impulsive)Denial in face of uncertainty and fear is fatal, though inevitable."--9/16/10

This was written after watching the video and doing a bit of reading up on Middle East online newspaper and at that time,current international news. It's clear that what the person said was and is true,one prominent newspaper even had nevermind,I'll just leave it here, though I'm not reading up to check for his reliability, his sincerity was clear and enough for me. Now, I totally understand what he said by he himself was overwhelmed by the news broad casted, which he was told beforehand what was going to happen,a few months before, as the whole thing unfold in front of his eyes. Even though, he had told it to those citizens who listened to the talk show. The accuracy of the information, to the minute details.

I really salute to him. The skeptical comments and outbursts which are written by viewers of video clips posted on youtube, which are not only on this current issue but also on the other issues like petroleum, are downright hurtful. There isn't a need to use such degree of crude language even if they don't believe what he said. The number of such name-callings, accusations and swearings is purely shocking. True, it does show that the speeches had already affected them but it's really hurtful to the speaker, and maybe to his family members. Despite taking the risk of offending those who are in control. He's really treading on very thin ice but what he receives for his effort, courage and concern for the people? But there are some who trusted him. Thankfully. (He's truely courageous, at least more than me, though he said that he's not courageous, he's just doing what they allowed him to do and that he's also scared. But thanks to him, the video's created among many other talk shows on such issues. I, for one, kept semi-silent on this current issue due to fear. Heard of bounty hunters? Oh, and that reminds me of Anna Prokovsky, I hope I didn't spell wrongly, and the reporters-without-borders. Well, goes to show how weak I am. sigh.)

However, the weird thing is that when things happen as how he said, and mind me, not predicted but just purely conveying the information he received, some of those who finally believed him labelled him as a prophet, but the thing is that he had already firmly and repeatedly said that he was just conveying the information he received from other people, not predicting. Do they know what trouble they are putting him into? And he already denied it so many times.

Things aside. The mechanism of how things like price inflation and political instability work and come about are understandable. However, the thing is that why after acquiring the knowledge of functions and the working mechanism of institutions and well, basically how the world works, it seems as though things cannot be changed and solutions that were formed are not solutions which were able to resolve the root problem. Instead, there are people(NOT ALL, only some) who make use of these knowledge for their own benefits which usually are 'treating others as stepping stones' even though some started out with good intentions. What went wrong in the process? But that's not the main question. The main question's why they are able to 'make' things go how as they wanted. It's not just pure understanding of things work, intelligence and luck. The openings or rather the weaknesses of people and the institutions enables them to manipulate the situations and gosh I don't like typing this post T^T, k, nevermind, where am I, manipulate the situations and even create the particular situations which would aid them to their current goals. ( I don't want to type this post T^T. K I sound like a whinny kid. Stop it!"局外人当个傻子似乎不错，/可苦了正义。" Remember what I said? Well, one may find it weird about my reaction and outbursts like the one above 'cos these things are nothing new but it's because it's nothing new that's why I said "(World)History repeats itself in all forms even though efforts are made to try to prevent them from happening, on massive scales". Sometimes people don't really learn from past mistakes. Including me at times. Oh, well.)

True, it is hard to have an utopia world but at least it is possible to strengthen oneself. ( I only got to this thing which I'm saying next, a few days ago, thanks to someone. Only then was I able to see things more clearly. Eh, I'm not saying that the whole thing's crystal clear to me. There are still some foggy parts. Ironically, he wasn't talking about this issue but another one, which was indirectly related to this but I don't think that person knows it.)Have a control over greed. Let not greed control one but one control greed. It's tough but possible. Be grateful for what one has. Let not envy and jealous override one's senses. Isn't greed also one of the reasons for corruption. Eh, pride is also one of the problematic ones but just put that aside first. Problems, I think these can be called problems or maybe flaws, on a personal level can be magnified into a macro-level, like what Shakespeare portrayed in King Lear, the chaos in a family, though it is a royal family, is being brought into the country, disruption of the hierarchy and thus war and chaos broke out. And also in the comics "Mafalda", family is the foundation of a society. It's the same in most societies. Hopefully this post is posted in time in face of the crisis, I have wasted enough time due to my weakness. It's surprisingly simple but yet the impact is shockingly huge. Hope that I didn't take the wrong step. Hopefully the domino effect would be frozen in its tracks.