tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post167874396972208322..comments2023-10-02T16:29:40.087+01:00Comments on neo-resistance: The heart of dystopia, WASHINGTON DCNajhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-54524242549043655392013-05-13T10:36:02.940+01:002013-05-13T10:36:02.940+01:00Hi Naj, Sure, its definitly better to make a clear...Hi Naj, Sure, its definitly better to make a clear cut. And every finish is the start of a new challenge. Whereever this will bring, I wish you good luck. Hopefully we can hear some good news from you soon.<br />best regards, Michaelradiushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18418500820960221635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-85626368033786092612013-05-12T16:49:32.022+01:002013-05-12T16:49:32.022+01:00Yes yes America has plenty of interesting folks, b...Yes yes America has plenty of interesting folks, but I disagree that the "most" interesting are American.<br /><br />I think Americans have the power of media, and the hollywood, the second largest industry after their weapon industry, to exert such an image on the world. They also have a larger population; but the proportion of "sensible" is very low, if you ask me. <br /><brNajhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-11987508900019589522013-05-12T15:28:33.523+01:002013-05-12T15:28:33.523+01:00Hi Naj, your observation at the Washington war mem...Hi Naj, your observation at the Washington war memorial really sounds as if the visitors will soon all suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. But I guess many capital cities around the world are hot spots for such insane memorial sites, intended to give the impression that war is managable, the fallen heros receive posthume medals, the families come along the cemetry ever Sunday to radiushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18418500820960221635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-63421968922262102912013-05-12T13:55:04.009+01:002013-05-12T13:55:04.009+01:00Hi Michael:
you ask: "there must be somethin...Hi Michael:<br /><br />you ask: "there must be something that keeps the memory of the tragedy and absurdity of military conflicts alive."<br /><br />Yes, the most poignent of such memorials is in fact in Berlin: Kathe Kollwitz: Mother with Her Dead Son!<br /><br />But, if you do visit a memorial site on a sunny spring sunday in Washington DC, you will find the following (I cite a friendNajhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-66532465302982104672013-05-12T10:13:00.885+01:002013-05-12T10:13:00.885+01:00On this point we have indeed different a different...On this point we have indeed different a different opinion. It is not that I like war memorial tourism or Sunday walks over military cemetries, but there must be something that keeps the memory of the tragedy and absurdity of military conflicts alive. I think without this, the nations would much more careless to attempt military solutions to solve their conflicts. What I really hate, though, are radiushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18418500820960221635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-21831888979959142172013-05-11T20:00:28.887+01:002013-05-11T20:00:28.887+01:00Michael,
you comment brought smiles to me, thinki...Michael,<br /><br />you comment brought smiles to me, thinking "jesus, Germans cannot help feeling entitled to offering advice!" (another one of those things in common with Persians)<br /><br />But to disambiguate you, I am not a new-comer to America, and I am a voyeur; that means when I go to a new place, I don't just sit and wait for a taxi to take me from point A to be in a Najhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-59272149618997978742013-05-11T18:04:06.871+01:002013-05-11T18:04:06.871+01:00Hi Naj, I liked very much your short, but very poi...Hi Naj, I liked very much your short, but very pointed characterization of your mom. I hope she gave you a lot of her wisdom, but also the gift to be patient some times. My experience with the US is very marginal, as I told you before. I remember the last time I went to attend a conference in St.Luis. I arrived there Sunday afternoon, pouring rain, the hotel located in a sort of industrial area, radiushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18418500820960221635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-23823166895593028752013-05-09T19:05:50.514+01:002013-05-09T19:05:50.514+01:00Hi Michael;
Well last thing first: I think Iran ...Hi Michael; <br /><br />Well last thing first: I think Iran and Israel are great allies, whether in peace or in war; but that is a separate issue.<br /><br />The material wealth, the bugle gum, the jeans ... I know what you are talking about; and perhaps a bit of personal history will help elucidate the point I will try to make:<br /><br />I grew up under sanctions and during the war. That meant,Najhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-75411672539721607862013-05-09T18:29:25.567+01:002013-05-09T18:29:25.567+01:00Dearest Naj, You are indeed a great philosopher, a...Dearest Naj, You are indeed a great philosopher, and I think you have the potency to rule the people. Your points are so that 90% will agree on them and follow you, if they listen to their heart, including myself. But in the moment that one looks to some of the recent historical trends, it might be difficult to stay to the ideas of a better, human society.<br />My experience in life might be not radiushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18418500820960221635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-319153479169613222013-05-06T13:20:09.047+01:002013-05-06T13:20:09.047+01:00Michael, thanks for starting this interesting conv...Michael, thanks for starting this interesting conversation.<br /><br /><a href="http://iranfacts.blogspot.ca/2007/10/our-hitler.html" rel="nofollow">I made a post about the film almost 6 years ago!</a>; just hinting at why it is relevant to watch today.<br /><br />As for the rise of the developing world and the shrinkage of the Western Europe "no one left behind": The crux of the Najhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-36162952777928639102013-05-06T09:02:31.552+01:002013-05-06T09:02:31.552+01:00Hi Naj, I have not heard about Syberbergs movie. I...Hi Naj, I have not heard about Syberbergs movie. I think its from the 70s, as I saw in IMDB. But it is said that one can legally watch it online. I can imagine that comming from Western Europe to the US is still a cultural shock. Most Western European countries (France, Germany, Scandinavia etc) still maintain a sort of rudimentary socialism ("nobody is left behind"). The question is ifradiushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18418500820960221635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-17461279795448241852013-05-05T22:26:18.013+01:002013-05-05T22:26:18.013+01:00Dear Michael,
Nice to meet you; and thanks for l...Dear Michael, <br /><br />Nice to meet you; and thanks for leaving a note.<br /><br />I agree with you; and I hope I do not come across as generalizing my dumping words to Americans, as individuals. But I DO, exact my words at the American system; and at the fact that the 80% are powerless to "change" their system.<br /><br />I find the SYSTEM and not the Americans to be the problem. I Najhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-5958192155863757712013-05-05T19:30:53.148+01:002013-05-05T19:30:53.148+01:00Dear Naj, Susan Sontag (or Kurt Vonnegut, I forgot...Dear Naj, Susan Sontag (or Kurt Vonnegut, I forgot who it was) once said when asked about what they had learned from the Holocaust: "10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and that 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and that the remaining 80 percent could be moved in either direction." Your pityful experiences with the americans, I hope were only a sampling artifactradiushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18418500820960221635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-23800397472531994062013-05-05T16:29:12.880+01:002013-05-05T16:29:12.880+01:00Hi Naj, I very much like your sharp words. I agree...Hi Naj, I very much like your sharp words. I agree that sacrificing ones life for a higher idea (religion, nation,politics) is stupid and a crime against life. The recent bomb attacks in at the Boston Marathon clearly shows what I mean: The victims and injured causes a sense of sorrow and tragedy, but the memory to them will last for a long time. The two torrorists themself, however, only inducesradiushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18418500820960221635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-44416604001632098102013-04-11T00:55:15.072+01:002013-04-11T00:55:15.072+01:00Anonymous,
you see, you are part of the problems ...Anonymous,<br /><br />you see, you are part of the problems of this world; you and your historical naivitee and your childish ideas about "sacrifice". It is indeed your voluntary slavery, which you call "sacrifice" is the root of much evil in the world. The "fascist" Germans are easy to blame for historical crap; but why willfully ignore who harvested the benefits. Najhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-24013336875497954502013-04-09T15:26:32.649+01:002013-04-09T15:26:32.649+01:00With your kind of attitude, I can see why you got ...With your kind of attitude, I can see why you got fired. <br />You talk about war. If it hadn't been for the good old USA, your native country in Iran would be ruled by German fascists today. Making light of all the dead people buried in DC shows you have a severe lack of understanding about sacrifice. You have your cemeteries in Iran too. And there are many buried there who may not have Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com