Thursday, February 21, 2008
By: IranVNC
Published: Thursday, February 21, 2008
* Blogging political and social issues
Behzad, in his weblog dedicated to human rights and individualism, has analyzed a confrontation between people and the security forces in West-Tehran. He has ironically related the “violent interaction of agents with a girl” because of Islamic dress code (Hejab) to the affectionate promises of president Ahmadinejad before his election to the office, and goes on to say:
President of the Republic, Ahmadinejad, who entered the political stage with promises of bring bread to the tables of the people, had said in his campaign advertisements that our problem is not one about what cloths boys and girls like to put on; however, after saddling up on the horse of his desires, he returned to his original essence and forgot about all his promises, besieging his forces to direct people toward the one right path. The affectionate government! In this historical juncture, since he was not able to deliver necessary victuals to people’s empty hearths, he is charging people’s dark of days with force, in order to lead them despite their wishes, to his own utopian paradise, the one he has been promising the people for years, and now in highways and byways and alleyways inculcate us with his establishment colors and sounds that yes, we have in fact already entered that promised paradise. Yes, the paradise of all totalitarian and power-hungry governments is thus…”
Thursday, February 21, 2008
http://www.behzadmehrani.blogfa.com/post-194.aspx
* Blogging Political Sociology
During a research and analysis of the works of Alexis de Tocqueville, the weblog of a “self-named reporter” has criticized the views of the French thinker and historian of early 19th century, on democracy and social equality, counting dangers that threaten modern democracies. Nevertheless, the blogger is of the opinion that “modern despotism is more permissive and latitudinarian than its older counterpart.” He goes on to write:
“From the perspective of de Tocqueville, democracy means the creation of conditions. A society is democratic in which all people are equal from the social point of view. Of course this equality for him is not in the matter of opinion or economics. In his view, two major dangers lie on the path to democracy:
• All democracies have the potential to be drawn towards and turn into centralized despotisms.
• Democracies have the tendency to spread the spirit of false flattery and subservience, something which commonly is referred to as the deceiving of population…
From the point of view of de Tocqueville, a government is democratic in which no trace of personal influence can be found in it.”
Thursday, February 21, 2008
http://www.doostemamooli.blogfa.com/post-33.aspx
*Blogging Personal Weblogs
Kurub3, while recalling a story of a conversation with his/her mother, who had asked what the writer thinks is his or her “most important body part,” goes on to comment that at first the ear and eyes and many other parts of body came to mind, only to be discounted by the mother. Only after the father’s death, mother elaborates further:
“She said, my dearest: your most important body parts, are your shoulders, because you can hold the head of a loved one or a friend who is crying on it. There comes a time in the life of each one of us humans, when we need a shoulder to cry on…
People will forget what you’ve said and what you’ve done. But they will never forget the feeling they have received through you.”
Thursday, February 21, 2008
http://kurub3.blogfa.com/post-2.aspx
*Social Psychology
Sara, in the weblog entitled “Passing beyond Meaning” while recounting a story, divides people of the world into four groups, based on the parameter of to what extent their presence is influential in the lives of others. She writes:
• “There are those who are, when they are, and aren’t when they aren’t. Most people’s being is based on physical presence. It is only through touching their bodily proportions that they become meaningful and so only have a corporal identity.
• Then there are those who aren’t when they are and aren’t also when they aren’t. (Dead people in motion and without any recognition, never catching any eyes, and their death or life is of no consequence.)
• There are those who are when they are and are also when they aren’t. (These are credible characters that in their being are overflowing with presence and are even effective when they aren’t present.)
• Then there are those who aren’t when they are and are when they aren’t. (These are the most fascinating bunch. In their Being they are so powerful and full of splendor that we are unable to perceive their presence, but once they are gone from our side, softly and slowly we begin to understand them, and only then realize what they have been.)”
Thursday, February 21, 2008
http://gozar_az_mana.mihanblog.com/Post-259.aspx
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