Moez Lamti

“اعرض طاووسك عقر المزايدة وتمّم التسطير. أي الأسواق تسع بضاعتك؟ زجاج يعكس بريق الذهب. تاج مفتّك وعاج أجدادك منجم برهانك. أبرق ويلاتك. لا أمان لمن لا نجوى لديه. أحنّ الى كسوف يعود. أوصيك: بين النّهب للسلب. واذا اختلطت عليك السبل, هيّىء الاسفلت لباقي العرين. ولا تدع أمد نهجك ينحدر طول الشّاحب وذكّ شرخ أفّك الدّامي, يتحمّم الفحّام فيه. وانبش قاعدة الجبّ لا أعلاه, يفاجئك السؤدد مجسّدّا في الصخر والحركة.”
― توفيق بن بريك, الإخوة هملت

“أمام البطش الكاسح تحرّك الأب المؤدّب ومن معه من المؤدّبين لفرض قبضة الخالد, المفرط في الكبرياء, مستعينين بالخيّالة والمشاة والرماة والسيّافة. لم يقدر الزيت الحارق ولا المنجنيق على فكّ الحصار وبعثرة جمهرة الهمج الهائجة.”
― توفيق بن بريك, الإخوة هملت

“بوابة الأبواب
لا مفتاح في يدنا. ولكنا دخلنا
لاجئين الى ولادتنا من الموت الغريب”
― مريد البرغوثي

“We fail to take responsibility, to act productively in the interest of ourselves and others. And in our attempts at a better life, we are often severely limited or thwarted by the immature and socially inept behavior of ourselves and others. There is a great fabric of relations, behaviors and emotions, reverberating with human and animal bliss and suffering, a web of intimate and formal relations, both direct and indirect. Nasty whirlwinds of feedback cycles blow through this great multidimensional web, pulsating with hurt and degradation. My lacking human development blocks your possible human development. My lack of understanding of you, your needs perspectives, hurts you in a million subtle ways. I become a bad lover, a bad colleague, a bad fellow citizen and human being. We are interconnected: You cannot get away from my hurt and wounds. They will follow you all of your life—I will be your daughter’s abusive boyfriend, your belligerent neighbor from hell. And you will never grow wings because there will always be mean bosses, misunderstanding families and envious friends. And you will tell yourself that is how life must be. But it is not how life has to be. Once you begin to be able to see the social-psychological fabric of everyday life, it becomes increasingly apparent that the fabric is relatively easy to change, to develop. Metamodern politics aims to make everyone secure at the deepest psychological level, so that we can live authentically; a byproduct of which is a sense of meaning in life and lasting happiness; a byproduct of which is kindness and an increased ability to cooperate with others; a byproduct of which is deeper freedom and better concrete results in the lives of everyone; a byproduct of which is a society less likely to collapse into a heap of atrocities.”
― Hanzi Freinacht, The Listening Society: A Metamodern Guide to Politics, Book One