Antoun Sehnaoui Had Three Point Five Seconds Before The Bling, Blink, Bang

When someone is alone, one thing is certain, less trouble will come his/her way; a solo individual is more likely to reduce bravado, brush off the insult or look and remain unaffected by it. Rational thinking takes control, and outcomes such as the Bling, Blink, Bang that occurred at Beirut's Maison Blanche nightclub are suppressed, hence preventing the outrageous reactions caused in just 3.5 seconds. One's life could change dramatically over years and years if the mind chooses to interpret a sudden situation that requires an impulsive decision in just 3.5 seconds, leaving him/her with all the time in the world to recap, rethink, assess and re-evalutate the outcome. This applies on all; Antoun sehnaoui, his bodyguards, Mazen el-Zein and his group of friends.

It's like the sliding doors theory, what would have happened if you missed the elevator and the doors shuts versus if you barely caught up and managed to catch the ride. Nothing!! or Your Life as you know it. I would go for the latter.

There are at least two explanations for why the intimidations, targeted at Antoun Sehnaoui upon his entry to the club, produced such an unexpected reaction versus an offhand reaction.

First, it could be that any insult is a greater affront to a man of Antoun's social and business status, who isn't accustomed to such public rudeness from peers.

Second, it could be that the rule of engagement for bodyguards requires impulsive, irreversible defense and attack mode, if their "guardian subject" "the Boss" has been threatened or insulted.

We believe both hypotheses to be true, as the appropriate response for a anyone who is being bullied is to fight back, and bodyguards are more likely to think it is right for them to hit someone who insults the man they're protecting. Such responses seem better described as rules about what to do when provoked then as beliefs about what constitutes a threat.

The confusion that was reigning at some point at Beirut's Maison Blanche, has aroused in Sehnaoui's bodyguards a sense of urgency, which left them kind of "mind-blinded; switched on the defense and attack mode". It is certainly the faked threat coming from Mazen's clan jumpin' in for back up, along with that rumble jumble scenery set all of a sudden that must have filled Antoun's men with an instinctual reflex, a rush that no one would be able to analyze if not in their shoes. In those short seconds, all the bodyguards of the world could do, was fall back on their most primitive, natural impulse, and the best of it all is that bodyguards in Lebanon are plugged on tribal mode, so far from being normal, their behavior is unsurprising; almost natural to say the least.

Bodyguards are paid to react swiftly and Lebanese bodyguards are known for their excess of zeal; they must have felt over-protective and decided to zap it all. If any bodyguard was suddenly faced with an emergency as such, would he know how to cope otherwise?

Individuals who feel threatened are usually surrounded by bodyguards; and again, bodyguards are supposed to be on the lookout for people like Antoun and perform their job well.

According to the dictionary, a bodyguard is a person or a group of persons hired to escort and protect another person—usually a famous, wealthy, or politically important figure; their job involves scanning the crowd and identifying a potential threat, a person who doesn't wish well at all to the important figure they are paid to 'mannyguard.'

However, part of what these men are supposed to be specialized in is to read faces.

So why Antoun Sehnaoui's close personal guard haven't been able to read Mazen & Co.'s faces and minds and avoid the altercation from the outset?

Have we thought about the How long do you think that whole scene took? 30 sec? 20? 15? No; three-point five seconds!! "When we make a split second decision," psychologist Keith Payne says, "We are really vulnerable to being guided by our stereotypes and prejudices, even ones we may not necessarily endorse or believe."

The answer, in my view, is quite obvious being in a country like Lebanon where nothing look like anything else in the world.

The reason is that, in a situation where 'mind-blindness' has took stage, THERE IS NO TIME to think, as "the gift of fear" messes with tribal instincts, which in my view explains but do not justify the gunfight that broke leaving the White House into disarray.

In the blink of an eye, that Saturday night, two old friends who have one day become opponents, let their rage fly high and fast; and it was only fast-breaking because Mazen let it become one, building up on that hostile argumentative meeting, adding insult to injury. And the show-off we, Lebanese, have been always used too has turned to a showdown we thought was long gone, buried far underneath, with all past lessons we were supposed to have grasped from the two decades of war we have closely encountered.

Last word so we keep in mind that all errors are human and even more, most of the errors we commit are reasonable confusions between similar words or sequences of words caught by a wired mind lost in translation, which again and very probably explain--but do not justify-- likewise unpremeditated actions

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