tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752043102302398548.post7574305969403191742..comments2023-10-14T08:21:36.173-07:00Comments on Karl reMarks: Hariri / Hezbollah: In search of a new division of labourKarl Sharrohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17442368022521436709noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752043102302398548.post-78834991506162817692010-09-27T07:30:35.203-07:002010-09-27T07:30:35.203-07:00Fatima, as usual very insightful comment, you'...Fatima, as usual very insightful comment, you've filled in the gaps that I left. I've referred to your comment on my latest entry. I disagree with your pessimism at the end though.Karl Sharrohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17442368022521436709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752043102302398548.post-66058460963946551792010-09-27T04:06:42.186-07:002010-09-27T04:06:42.186-07:00Division of labour is also anti-evolutionary. The ...Division of labour is also anti-evolutionary. The fittest has to survive, and it doesn't matter whether the necessary conditions for fitness conform to our own convictions or liking. By conforming to a division of labour we are in fact hiding behind this veil, afraid to admit our deficiencies, our weaknesses, afraid to address the open questions why we are incapable of that role or that. We are lying more and more and maintaining a status quo that is liable to fall apart at the slightest perturbation, simply because we have opposed evolution of the fittest and its survival. <br /><br />The swap in roles you've observed is indeed very accurate. The Hizb has been caring more to prove it can actually be involved in construction and public services. The Hariri camp has been caring more to show they are capable of catching spies and bringing them to justice. But is any of this truly going to lead us away from the pitfalls of the past? I guess not -- but rather more deception about what the various factions, sects and cultures are capable or incapable of doing, very much like we did in 1943, and then in Taif. Yes it is not ``easy to resurrect'' the former division of labour and ``no party wants it''. Obviously because it will make each one of us appear inadequate and impotent in one way or another, at a time when each party is seeking an image of completion and utter self-control and self-sufficiency. In the midst of this turmoil I prefer to stick to this anecdotal rule -- better bear the repercussions of a divorce rather than live in a household of quarreling parents.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00581046892293885900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752043102302398548.post-20373631891829140542010-09-27T04:06:22.514-07:002010-09-27T04:06:22.514-07:00>the division of labour between Hariri and Hezb...>the division of labour between Hariri and Hezbollah will be reproduced in a new format<br /><br />I hope not -- For the sake of the little left of our sanity, I hope not. Any form of division of labour will only bring on more deception than anything that has been. As youngsters growing up in the years of the (first) civil war we've learned it the hard way how the first division of labour of 1943 (known more commonly but very analogously as a sectarian distribution of power). At the time we still did not pay heed to history and refused to learn a tiny bit as we went along the Taif agreement, re-installing a different division of labour in the form known to everyone as ``Construction versus Resistance''. The most naive of laymen these days would tell you how this has sowed nothing but the seeds of another era of conflict and potential for a second civil war, as we've been witnessing since the early 2000's. <br /><br />Why do I still hope the Lebanese will finally relinquish this or any other form of division of labour if they truly intend on finding a long lasting solution to their complicated conflicts? For the simplest of all reasons, division of labour is highly counter intuitive. I am in no position to speak as a sociologist but I do feel this apparaturs only re-enforces the black and white stratum of people, which in turn only serves to disable any of us from functioning effectively (truly to the opposite from what is intended i.e. performing labour). It re-enforces that we are different, that not all of us can be good at the same things at the same time, in an era when we need to be unified over more things than Tabbouleh and Kibbeh. The obsession with division of labour has, as a matter of fact, only re-enforced the malaise of class: some of us are good at making money, investment, construction, tourism and public image. With time those of us involved in this have derided even more those who have themselves contested they are good at resisting and fighting and dying, calling them haters of life. On the other hand and with time those of us on the latter front have also derided the former ones calling them greedy and thieves, spies and collaborators, aloof and inconsiderate. Instead of teaching us to develop appreciation to each other, this division of labour only made us harbour more contempt for each other.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00581046892293885900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752043102302398548.post-28281733139759448732010-09-25T03:16:16.529-07:002010-09-25T03:16:16.529-07:00i like this article a lot!i like this article a lot!mauvais garcon manquehttp://mauvaisgarconmanque.tumblr.comnoreply@blogger.com