The Psychology of Queues and the ‘Goldfish Memory’: How Do Neighbors’ Achievements Become a Narcotic for Lost Peoples?

Introduction: The Phenomenon of the ‘Goldfish Memory’ and Perceptual Deception

Biologists are unfair to the small fish when they accuse it of having a poor memory, forgetting that some human beings have far surpassed it in this field. In a recurring surreal scene, the oppressed individual in certain countries suffers from an exemplary goldfish memory, wiped clean at the slightest turn, causing the memories of humiliation, hunger, poverty, and the endless lines for milk and oil to evaporate like endless snakes.

This individual returns time and again to bite the same hook that wounded his mouth yesterday, walking with his own feet into the nets where he was trapped before. The reason for this is that the bitterness he has endured leaves no lasting trace on his mind, as long as a new “narcotic” awaits on the horizon to dull his consciousness and obscure his bitter reality.

“Morocco”: The Magic Narcotic to Distract Oppressed Peoples

This strange narcotic is not born of a passion for development, but from a unique obsession with the successes of Morocco and its massive projects. The consciousness of the simple citizen has been diverted, by design, from his dry water taps, power outages, empty refrigerators, and the national wealth looted by a gang of generals, to obsessively monitoring Moroccan markets and exports.

What is fascinating about this ironic psychology is that the happiness of the destitute citizen is no longer measured by his own well-being, but by the hardship of others. If our neighbors go hungry, we feel satisfied; if they prosper, we suffer from insomnia, weeping over the ruins of the past and “foreign plots,” forgetting that our own stomachs are filled only with empty promises.

Behind the Scenes at El Mouradia: Engineering Illusions and Exporting Crises

In the background of this absurd scene, military generals pull the strings in the dark corners of the El Mouradia Palace. These generals sit atop mountains of wealth, knowing full well how to manage this goldfish memory and cast the right bait at the right time to distract the victim.

Instead of questioning the fate of oil and gas revenues, the citizen is led behind screens to analyze the neighbors’ projects, consoling himself with the myth of the “external plot.” Thus, the dark spiral continues: the beneficiaries remain in their ivory towers, while the oppressed citizen dies in the line of illusions, carrying the wound of the hook without ever learning the lesson.