● I guess I'm just gonna write in English for a while , 'cause I'm so slow on writing in persian that I loose the point of what I want to say!
I just found out that one of the guys that I met in Iran this summer has a weblog ! He isn't Iranian. So he sees Iran as a person from outside!! I was looking at his website today and I found something interesting, He thinks Iranian people lack the self-disciplin and that cause them to let the past to repeat itself! Listen to what he says:
"[Hossein, a captor] began by telling me that it was all over, that we were all going home, and that Iran was finally going to be free from outside interference so Iranians could have the kind of country they wanted. I responded that it sounded good, but that I was sure it was not going to happen because, in my view, Iranians lacked the necessary self-discipline to keep the past from repeating itself.
Hossein said he did not understand. I noted that governing a nation and permitting at least some degree of freedom (which Hossein and is cohorts always maintained would be the case in Iran) required great tolerance on the part of the authorities. I said that the government of such a country could not lock someone away or execute them just because someone with the power to do so did not like something the person said or did. I told him that rules and laws had to be applied to all citizens equally and that it took governmental and personal self-discipline to make this work. Looking him directly in the eyes, I told him that nothing I had seen, heard, or experienced in my time in Iran gave me any indication he and his fellow Iranians had any understanding of this. The revolutionary government was unwilling to grant its citizens any measurable degree of true freedom, and there was not, in my opinion, a snowball's chance in hell that it would...."
In some sense I agree with him but at the same time I think it is getting better even if it's just a tiny bit. Having an understanding of freedom needs a degree of freedom we've never had! I just rememberd once I was in Dr. Shahshahani's class and he was talking about some story Arostotle (I think! ) says: Imagine a man growing and living in a cave with being locked in where he sits, back to the sun, and whatever he sees is a shadow of what it really is outside. So he sees a rose as a shadow, There is no color, no smell or feeling!
I think this is an example of the image we have from freedom! It's a shadow !
What do you think?
□ نوشته شده در ساعت 4:22 PM توسط Parisaa
........................................................................................I just found out that one of the guys that I met in Iran this summer has a weblog ! He isn't Iranian. So he sees Iran as a person from outside!! I was looking at his website today and I found something interesting, He thinks Iranian people lack the self-disciplin and that cause them to let the past to repeat itself! Listen to what he says:
"[Hossein, a captor] began by telling me that it was all over, that we were all going home, and that Iran was finally going to be free from outside interference so Iranians could have the kind of country they wanted. I responded that it sounded good, but that I was sure it was not going to happen because, in my view, Iranians lacked the necessary self-discipline to keep the past from repeating itself.
Hossein said he did not understand. I noted that governing a nation and permitting at least some degree of freedom (which Hossein and is cohorts always maintained would be the case in Iran) required great tolerance on the part of the authorities. I said that the government of such a country could not lock someone away or execute them just because someone with the power to do so did not like something the person said or did. I told him that rules and laws had to be applied to all citizens equally and that it took governmental and personal self-discipline to make this work. Looking him directly in the eyes, I told him that nothing I had seen, heard, or experienced in my time in Iran gave me any indication he and his fellow Iranians had any understanding of this. The revolutionary government was unwilling to grant its citizens any measurable degree of true freedom, and there was not, in my opinion, a snowball's chance in hell that it would...."
In some sense I agree with him but at the same time I think it is getting better even if it's just a tiny bit. Having an understanding of freedom needs a degree of freedom we've never had! I just rememberd once I was in Dr. Shahshahani's class and he was talking about some story Arostotle (I think! ) says: Imagine a man growing and living in a cave with being locked in where he sits, back to the sun, and whatever he sees is a shadow of what it really is outside. So he sees a rose as a shadow, There is no color, no smell or feeling!
I think this is an example of the image we have from freedom! It's a shadow !
What do you think?
□ نوشته شده در ساعت 4:22 PM توسط Parisaa
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