Iran has had a tough time of it. I know very little about the Revolution. It seems to me as if all the sins of the Twentieth Century were visited on Iran and, passing through a cultural filter, emerged as the great evil of the Twenty-First.
What is amazing about the process is the ability for people to retain their humanity and their sense of humor amongst senselessness. I’ve been told that the Cuban people don’t get uptight about their own tyranny. I’ve seen that people in Afghanistan and Iraq would rather tolerate their own oppression than take action against it. It seems that the law of inertia applies to politics and society as much as to a ball on the crest of a hill. So then, does it make it anyone’s responsibility to act? Or do we simply tolerate the difficulties of others as long as they don’t affect us?
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