Thu 27 Jul 2006
As free speech goes it can be used as a tool to bring people together to find and fix problems or as bludgeon for those who care only about being right but not true. If the old saying goes the first casualty of war is the truth then I don’t think there is a day in my life where the world was not embroiled in some kind of war. I grew up innocent, reading a lot about the civil rights movements which swept America and was most prevalent right before my birth. Then I grew up and realized prejudice was still there in all sorts of forms. Worse still as I learned about the world outside of my own domain I realized we were even further from the tolerance and camaraderie that I thought was the natural order of things.
It seems in any group I have observed or been a part of there is always the heckler in the crowd, someone there to incite and play to base emotions. It gets worse when that heckler is a leader. Hate is an easy rallying point, a sure way to motivate people for whatever purpose. It allows the perpetrator to not have to think but still produce results, even if those results are chaotic.
We need a world that thinks, not one that shouts. We need solutions not mere rhetoric from all sides of the isle.
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July 27th, 2006 at 11:36 am
Completely agree with you here. Problem is that clearly emotions (and big money for weapons) is heavily involved here and requests for “cleverness”, “smartness”, and “insight” reaching empty walls in that case, which is very sad
What I really hate that self-claimed “center of reason” in the world US is totally at one side’s bill here, which doesn’t help situation at all. That drives me nuts that such superpower don’t even want fighting to stop just because “we should destroy terrorists first”. Didn’t such technology fail in Iraq?
Anyway, it is hard to see that lot of clever people like Zaheer (and those who oppose him) gets into big flamewars which will lead nowhere. I understand both sides (specially Zaheer’s anger, so please if you even call anti-semit, you can understand his reasoning to feel such way), but I clearly don’t understand Israel actions which are clearly leading to escalation of full-blown war.
I can only hope that we as community will understand each other and won’t take path of hating each other about our emotions.
July 28th, 2006 at 10:36 am
We need a world that thinks, not one that shouts. We need solutions not mere rhetoric from all sides of the isle.
Totally agreeing you on this! Lets think and not use our bodystrengh or shout! Good theory