It's very ironic. The opening of information is a double-edge sword. While I was reading the news, I can't help but think about that technologies have enabled our government to collect information to a very massive extend (yes, I am thinking about the domestic spying). On the other hand, technologies also enable average citizens to record and distribute information to the masses very easily (thus countering propaganda). All these technologies opens up the real complexity of reality. Which side will win the battle of information?
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Wednesday, October 03, 2007
Monday, March 12, 2007
Voices of Despair
Your education will be jihad. Going to school is jihad. If you become a doctor, that’s jihad.Mirvat’s father tried to convince her not to volunteer to become a suicide bomber.
But ... she slipped away. She volunteered again, successfully this time, for Islamic Jihad. She died, slightly wounding two Israelis.Parents cared for their children's well being just as deeply in every culture.
On March 12, 2007, New York Times published Years of Strife and Lost Hope Scar Young Palestinians, an article about how violence slowly create a generation of youth without hope in Gaza. I couldn't describe how sorry I was. Regardless of who's right and who's wrong, children deserved a future. Everyone deserved a future. I was enraged by the fact that after so many years of human development, we are still resolving problems thought violence. For the very reason of creating a future for the future generation, we are destroying it.
Politicians make up reasons for going to war, but we have no right to kill anyone. Killing others does not and will not resolve any problem. It only undermines our integrity as human beings. Stop the violence. Stop the war. Now.
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