Nothing , and that's why it works

2 year's ago I read a story called "les mise en boîte " , the protagonist of the storey is a little girl who discoverd her ability to ask peopel questions that directs them the way she wants (  best case scenario) or bemuse their mind with a question they can't answer so they leave her alone, in the middle of the story the protagonist asks her teacher what forces her to obey him  , the teacher's response was very simple yet confusing "nothing , and that's why it works" , the girl was astonished and obeyed her teacher. At that point , I stopped reading and started contemplating the teacher's response for that question was on my mind since I was shorter then a chair , since nothing is forcing us, why do we CHOOSE obey ???? Is it because we're afraid ? Is it because we're confused ?? Is it because we believe we're better off obeying ?? Maybe because we belive those we obey are smarter or superior ?Is it because we trust that those we chose to obey and that they only want our good ?? Is it a question of weakness and strength ? Is it a question of gratitude ? Maybe knowledge and ignorance ? Perhaps because peopel are thaught to obey or they are too afraid or lazy to think for themselfs ?Etc...

I had all these questions in my head , and for a year I had decided to adapt the " nothing " as an answer even thought I doubted it ,because I needed an answer that would be valid for ALL cases , and because I discovered that all the other answers weren't really primary reasons but merely secondary reasons. 

Then came the 25 Jan revolution . and I witnessed  the egyptian society in a very critical and unique time ,and suddenly it was obvious as the sun why  people choose to follow and why some choose to disobey , and that I was blind to that reason because - without realizing it- I was always thinking with a rather anarchic logic , but the truth is there is a social contract sustaining each society in the world, usually emerging from religions and the culture of that society , that contract is a set of unwritten laws that all or most of the society  believes it would help the society evolve into a better one , and it is that contract who has the power to give authority or take it , and because almost every body is ready to do whatever is necessary to help in his own and his society's evolution, then almost everybody choose to follow these rules , and as it happens that these rules always give authority to a unified governing organization (governed by the social contract and some other stuff) who's goal is to protect the society , secure it's evolution and keep these unwritten rules applied ( sometimes even by writing them or writing rules to secure them , for example they protect the value of work by not giving mush money/privlages to those who don't work and they protect the value of knowledge by giving superior jobs to the most knowledgable etc...). 

But what happens if that governing corps doesn't respect that social contract? The answer is simple ' the governed get the right stop obeying and to express there anger and discontent , threw riots , news paper articles , strikes , even terrorist acts ( destroying a parliament or any authoritarian symbol etc ..) or civil disobedience. The last is very special , because as the mahatama Ghandi once realized , they as or more effective then riots , not bloody at all , in fact it's carectrised by complete abscence of violence , for civil disobedience is simple , people just stop obeying the government , stop going to work , stay in their houses paralyzing the economy and the country and striking the government where it hurts all while limiting the government's ability to react in a hostile manner. 

Personally , I believe civil disobedience is the best solution for Egypt these days , while the riots and protests continue , I really don't want to see any more blood shed in the streets and never desire to hear the television broadcasting the death and injury toll at the latest protest or strike (or at any other occasion ) again. I believe Egypt has lost more then enough of it's loving people already.