Does Summer Always Follow Spring?

Events in Egypt have clearly not gone to plan and it now looks to be a serious mess.  This provides further evidence that democracy is not the pinnacle of organisation that it is sometimes held up to be.  Hopefully the social networking revolution will provide us with better alternatives in the not too distant future.

Perhaps part of what went wrong here is that the people and the church really didn't understand their roles in the play.  The standard western script requires that the church is subservient to the state and the role of the sheeple in a democracy is to return the elite to power.  In general the government should be  left to run the state. The church is there to help in times of crisis and operate as a sheepledog to round up and restore order when there are too many straying and wandering from the path of obedience to the elite.

In the case of Egypt the government elite boils down to the military as they control the extremely generous slush fund provided by the US..  For some reason nobody explicitly explained this arrangement to the Egyption people and so it seems the military decided to abort the play half-way through the first act.  It appears the Muslim Brotherhood was favouring its own supporters.  Hardly a suprising turn of events in any democracy but clearly not acceptable to he military.

It seems they considered it was outrageous of the Egyptian people to not recognise that the military's candidates were supposed to be elected and that democracy was to be conditional on electing the right winner?   So democracy ended, at least for now, with the coup that wasn't a coup coup.

It clearly further exacerbates the pain when your economy is based largely on tourism and understandably this tends to underperform when violence and insecurity is rife.  It is hard to be optimistic for the immediate future.  The greatest civilization of the past may be one of the least civilized places to be at present and an uncivil war seems a real possibility.  

However all things are relative and for Egypt at present perhaps the only crumb of comfort can be that they are not Syria and are at least being left to sort out their own problems without the rest of the world queuing up to getting involved.