You are making very good points. However there difference is the people. We don't have morons: Shariati; Al Ahmad; Khomeini; MKO; and the like running the show. We have people who have lived under relatively free systems for 30+ years.
That is the experience we the diaspora bring. Some like me will go back and even if 10% of us go back is enough to do a giant amount of good. However we do need to be careful since jujeh dictators are just waiting to spring up.
Darling, my absolute pleasure! Thank you for the appreciation and very kind words. Your post put a smile on my face. ;)
Javanmard
I share some of your concerns... However, this time around there is an enormous part of the population that is young and well-educated in Iran, and there are millions outside the country (from many a different background), who have been living very different lives in different countries. If only a quarter of those abroad would return, the languages alone would have an enormous impact, also on the economy?
The country would not only be able to be self-sufficient in natural resources, but have great brain power and uniquely so.
"So good intentions are clearly not enough." you wrote. I'd agree, but clear intentions may well be...
Every fascism is an index of a failed revolution - Walter Benjamin
I am old enough to remember similar demonstrations on the streets of London in the 1970s protesting at the tyranny of the Shah's regime. Only the names on the placards have changed.
Will we have learned the lesson this time round or will we just install a new dictator? I am sure the people who demonstrated in the 1970s also thought they were ushering in a new and better age for Iran - and look what they got. So good intentions are clearly not enough.
Veiled Prophet of Khorasan
by Marjaneh on Wed Jun 16, 2010 04:03 AM PDTWell put! And LOL for the "jujeh dictators".
Every fascism is an index of a failed revolution - Walter Benjamin
Javanmard
by Veiled Prophet of Khorasan on Wed Jun 16, 2010 03:28 AM PDTYou are making very good points. However there difference is the people. We don't have morons: Shariati; Al Ahmad; Khomeini; MKO; and the like running the show. We have people who have lived under relatively free systems for 30+ years.
That is the experience we the diaspora bring. Some like me will go back and even if 10% of us go back is enough to do a giant amount of good. However we do need to be careful since jujeh dictators are just waiting to spring up.
To Javanmard and Darling
by Marjaneh on Wed Jun 16, 2010 04:01 AM PDTDarling, my absolute pleasure! Thank you for the appreciation and very kind words. Your post put a smile on my face. ;)
Javanmard
I share some of your concerns... However, this time around there is an enormous part of the population that is young and well-educated in Iran, and there are millions outside the country (from many a different background), who have been living very different lives in different countries. If only a quarter of those abroad would return, the languages alone would have an enormous impact, also on the economy?
The country would not only be able to be self-sufficient in natural resources, but have great brain power and uniquely so.
"So good intentions are clearly not enough." you wrote. I'd agree, but clear intentions may well be...
Every fascism is an index of a failed revolution - Walter Benjamin
Here we go again
by javanmard on Tue Jun 15, 2010 12:33 PM PDTI am old enough to remember similar demonstrations on the streets of London in the 1970s protesting at the tyranny of the Shah's regime. Only the names on the placards have changed.
Will we have learned the lesson this time round or will we just install a new dictator? I am sure the people who demonstrated in the 1970s also thought they were ushering in a new and better age for Iran - and look what they got. So good intentions are clearly not enough.
Thanks
by darling on Tue Jun 15, 2010 08:43 AM PDTMarjen jan kheili mamnoon az in ke vaght gozashty va in aksaye jaleb ro upload kardi. aksa besyar ghashang boodan makhsusan un akse taki az bache.