Friday, March 21, 2008

So, about my last blog, I was so overwhelmed that I became too harsh on everything. My apologies. Now that I think about it, writing about Iran, about how the music works there, about living there and about being a human, a global human there, I realize that it is indeed so interesting. We know that limitation makes one to be more creative. Therefore, this is the basic matter in Iran. People think. They know geography and history of the world besides the Iranian one, they know so much about philosophy and politics, it is actually sort of necessity because we as Iranians, wantonly or un-wantonly are involved in politics.

Creating became one of the daily rituals. And why is that? Let's look at the matter of "internet". We never realize that how much we are privileged that we have high speed internet without any filtering. In Iran most of the internet connections are dial ups ad also you don't have the access of most of the web sites becasue they are immoral, contaminated with dangerous thoughts and negatively provocative! So, imagine how one as a human in this melting pot of cultures can access to the information of any kind? I as one who experienced this lack and now have the accessibility of it right now am so grateful of having it without anyone banning it from me. We are so used to it that if one day someone as for example he government prevent us from using it we become astound and even sort of paralyzed.

Iranians most of all believe that because of all these filters and preventions they face in everyday life, they are behind the people from other countries. that is why they think more and more, they create as much as they can to overcome this lack and that leads to sort of over doing it that I can now proudly say that we might have the shortage of not having the easy accessibility to the information but we come up with other solutions to conquer it. Therefore, globalization even without the Iranian governments wanting it is sneaking into Iranian people's lives.

Well, that was a start for me to talk about this very fragile issue. I still think that I am not totally capable of describing what Iran is as a country and as a Nation but at least I can try. In a way, I am so close to it that I cannot see it and so far from it that I miss some significant points about it. I think or no, let's say i believe that it is a good start at least to think about it and not to runaway from it anymore. In the next blog i suppose i will discuss more about Globalization and the atter of creativity and actually the necessity of it in any human's life.

1 comment:

Niki said...

we, as a family, were not nationalists. we were living our own lives, and dealing with our own problems, and didn't think that it mattered where we were born.
it is interesting that what some stupid people do to make you think about these things and make you to defend "your own kind", as they define you.
but it is always pleasant to think deeper and harder about the place you were born and the people that you grew up with which eventually leads to dig deeper into yourself. believe me sis you will see clearer and you will realize things and feel things so strange that you never thought you had those things in you.
at some point you will feel like a totally different person, makes you to be honest with yourself. that is called "rastegary".
and that's what makes you thank those stupid people :D