Egypt, yesterday, today and tomorrow

Good morning friends. This is my third post on Egypt in which I seek to link ancient with modern.

The Sphinx is famous for its inscrutable gaze. 

In today’s Egypt, the ancient Sphinx stares at a modern pizza franchise situated across the street.  Maybe the Sphinx knows that real change, like good food, takes time. 

England’s revolution included the beheading of her king.

In France, Voltaire’s call for revolution was answered by the bloodbath of the guillotine.

In America, democracy arose on the tide of both a revolution and a bloody civil war. 

Freedom isn’t free. In the West, the hopes of a democracy inspired by the poet’s heart were field tested with the soldier’s blood. And it took centuries.

The Sphinx has watched more than thirty of those centuries pass. 

Maybe the riddle posed by the Sphinx is that democracy can’t be delivered to Egypt by the West, like fast food in a pizza box.

Blessings for the day.

Doug.

Now that's food for thought!