Authority and leadership

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Authority and leadership are entrusted to them, firstly, to preserve the human community, and secondly, to sponsor the ongoing “development” through preservation, change, or mutation. Authority possesses energy consisting of natural resources and human capabilities; And the legitimacy that it transfers to other productive frameworks or competes with new, more technologically advanced frameworks. In short, you create change. The entire process creates the space for political action, that is, that which heralds or foretells a view of the political environment, where the people, the region, and the government are, with their resources and expenditures, risks that must be avoided, and opportunities that must be seized. If power is a position, then leadership is a will to the extent of the ship and the captain, and it is the job of the president in which he must lead, either as our fathers and grandfathers led, or he pushes in directions that bring about revolutionary change that is usually not comfortable or guarantees public satisfaction at the beginning, but the new generations realize that they live in a new homeland. The Egyptian case here bears witness to a common competition between those who prefer a previous era, which may be the Islamic or Nasser caliphate, or the previous monarchy. And among those who want to live in the current era, where the Asian miracles emerged from poverty into concealment, and the technological miracles in which we reached artificial intelligence.

In fact, Egypt is living in a chronic state of political Salafism that is drawn between bygone eras and dissatisfaction with a reality that is not in line with what came before, to the point that every Egyptian has a “beautiful time” that he wishes to return. More dangerous than those who live in the past, there is the bureaucratic group in which millions of bureaucrats lived who were shaken to the depths by the third technological revolution that challenged the old files, regulations and laws, where choices are based on seniority and the patience of standing in long, compact lines. This group has its own academy that holds titles and high positions in which state awards are shared. But at the same time, they are fighting among themselves, declaring a Salafist “jurisprudence of priorities” in which every matter remains the same!