Intellectual liberation of cockroaches for advancement of the Egyptian State: Ganzeer at TEDxTanta

Um this is a drawing I drew a while ago As you guys can see I did a very simple thing I took something From our heritage "Om Kalthoum" To use it To talk about A modern cause And I think that this Technique, many people From our generation Use it When my dad sees this Son, what have you done? "Om Kalthoum' No she stays as she is Don’t do this to her So, I think This made me realize That our generation Is not bad. Our generation is capable To take from our heritage To create something new. But the old generation Obviously, Doesn’t want anything from The new generation. Say, son, get rid of These cockroaches Every once in a while Your head has roaches in it So, um, so so I realized honestly That my head really does Have roaches in it One of the reasons that these roaches exist in my head, is that I am a little lost can't focus on what I want I would do graphic design I would do Product design or design tables,furnture whatever I would do comic books I would shoot short movies or so I would do graffiti and run from the police I would do fine arts So this made me want to understand why am I lost? So, I started to ask myself some primary questions to understand What is my purpose in life? So, after some deep meditation I got it! (Audience laughing and clapping) I really got it! I said, it’s clear I am a man of ideas What made me so sure that I am a man of ideas is that often come up with ideas that have no existance as a product or as a job ideas that have no purpose for example, I was walking down the street and I saw, Menatel So What,Menatel is everywhere?! I realized that Mental has been out of service for about 5 years But its there, unchanging Nobody decided to remove it So, I started to ask around I found that Menatel went bankrupt, due to the spread of cell phones and a the cost of a minute is nothing even if you don't have a phone there's that guy one sidewalk with the sign that says a minute is 75 piaster So, there is no use for Menatel the company went bankrupt and can't remove these things because its bankrupt and the Government won’t spend money to remove it when it needs to be building other things Then I started thinking What can we do with it? We can't leave here for the next 50-100 years from now So I was inspired by "Mama Susan" she always led a campaign "Reading is for everyone" I see Posters and Banners in the street about it and 20 years of englinment reading for kids, adults,everyone But I didn't see any gestures from her that motivate anyone to read I didn't see any public libraries spreading I didn't see supported books I didn't see book shacks in the Metro for reading I didn't see any actual gestures that motivate people to read So, I said why don’t we transform this Menatel into a reading device of course, this a useless idea and someone's going to tell me people are going to rip the books apart yes, that’s true But if you place the book in unbreakable glass With two holes someone waiting at the bus stop could pick up a book and decide that is interesting I might buy it It’ll be publicity for the authors and the people waiting could start reading and if someone tears up the book it doesn’t mean that nobody will benefit even if a little and so what if we put "Reading is for Everyone" This is a useless idea why did I think of it? I won't do it obviously. I've had worse ideas an idea about the "Nile River' At school I've always heard of or read that Egypt is a gift from the Nile that the Nile is very important to us and we can't live without it to the point that the Pharos made the shape of shape of the "Key of life' in the shape of the "Nile River" my problem is that I've always lived in "Maser Al-Gdida" and my school was located there and I didn't see a Nile my entire life as I grew up not even when I graduated from school So, When I was reading about it at school, that it is very important and not see a Nile how could I be an Egyptian? and live in Egypt and I grew up in Egypt and not see the Nile?! It’s probably even worse now for all the new towns like the "Tagmo'a Al-Khams' and "Al-Rehab" and those places you'll find the kid from the home to the school which is probably on the desert highway and to the club He doesn't get to see the "Nile”, unless, on a trip How could you not see the "Nile”, unless on a trip?! So this made me think There’s an imbalance like now, if we look at Cairo We’ll find that the city started here So, if I decided to enlarge the city to here, why wouldn't I dig little canals from the Nile?! as I enlarge the city One, for the spiritual essence of the Nile Two, another method of transportation other than the cars and smoke So I am lessening the crowds and smoke and river buses and all Three, moistening the air in the far desert areas Everything’s cool When I started to research I found this isn't new or weird I was looking at Amsterdam’s map I saw that it did this idea even though they didn't have pharos Who said the Nile people! But they still carried out this idea and if we look at reality We’ll find that its great its great to be surrounded by Water canals and at night! and river buses a float, he’s enjoying his time! It’d be a great way to live! A worse idea that came to me has to do with the police According to the police We have a patrol car "Attari" It goes around to check on the safety of the citizens Every car goes around in its own district To a degree its small these cars cause more crowdedness and pollution So, I thought why not the police patrol on bikes One, the patrol areas will be smaller saving more gas and car costs if there is a criminal they will catch sooner in crowded areas Two, this will provoke the government to make sidewalks for the bikes because they will have a huge amount of police individuals on bikes If we make a sidewalk for bikes there will be regular citizens who have always wanted to ride bikes But are afraid to die by the microbuses will start to ride bikes too Then lessening the crowdedness and pollution All of this with a single step Putting the police patrol on bikes In addition The accustomed look for the police individual will change considerably I am a person who who isn't specialized in any of this But, I think that if everyone is specialized in one thing and didn't make excuses and got creative to the max and let all the roaches in their head live Egypt will be a great place to live in then Thats all, thank you