The "Pharoah's" Decree

The pro-democratic surge in the recent week in Tahrir square against Egyptian President Mursi's constitutional decree that would award him "absolute" powers, is yet another symbolic public uprise in the name of democracy. It signifies the fact that the public is conscious of and still believes that the judiciary must precede over constitutional positions and its manipulations, including Presidential powers. 

It is obvious that the very workings of democracy itself has the capacity to feed and lead its representatives into absolute authoritarianism. The space has been created within democracy itself. Moreover, the process is boosted through the capitalistic system which has engulfed "underdeveloped" nations like us, as well as the more rich Middle-East nations such as Egypt. Like venom in the bloodstream, it soon engulfs the system and numbs its subjects, ultimately killing the mass public in favor of those who hold the strings of power, of course, nominees of the mass, pathetically leading the public on, like the pied piper, from pitfall into a much bigger next.

Interestingly, society works backwards, though physics proves and claims that time moves forward- the best example being Egypt's case. Pharaohs of ancient Egypt had absolute power. Will President Mursi be the next is the question. Democracy has its dialectics in intricate ways. The people of Egypt who gathered at Cairo's square and its mass "occupy movement" have taken the right way of pro-democratic protest, and confirms to the rest of the world that democracy in its true sense still lies in the hand of the masses, not in those who have become objects of power. Blind Lady Justice should remain blind.