My Trip to Iran
I finally gave up work and took a three week long vacation to my fatherland, or motherland Iran. After being away for five years, I expected so many changes, but to be honest, not at this level...
My points of interests have always been political, economical and cultural status, all of which have changed dramatically during the past few years I was away. This is ironically surprising for me, as I always thought that by following the news and all the written documents published in web logs and other websites, I can actually keep up with the changes. My trip to Iran proved that I was wrong...social changes happen in a much faster pace than to follow them...also, I realized that the "written" documents can only reflect so much of the changes. For the rest, one has to be in the heart of action to feel and breathe the changes...
On summary, I was happy to see the changes in culture...mass of media are produced for everyone and are accessible by every one at unbelievably cheap prices. I think the prices of books; movies and software are second to none as compared with the rest of day to day expenses. On the other hand, I was sad to hear that for the same reason it took a few years for these changes to materialize after Khatami took over, they might even disappear a a short time because the new team considers every thing from "security" point of view...This is horrific since I know it by heart now more than ever, in order to build our country, we need to improve our culture...
I will discuss my other observations in future.
I also came back here to say, I am here...just too busy! However, I have decided to activate my English web log and try to spread my observations around. I guess one problem when analyzing Iran's issues is lack of enough knowledge of what really is happening there. Maybe if every one try to reflect what truly is going on, then we can make a difference...
My points of interests have always been political, economical and cultural status, all of which have changed dramatically during the past few years I was away. This is ironically surprising for me, as I always thought that by following the news and all the written documents published in web logs and other websites, I can actually keep up with the changes. My trip to Iran proved that I was wrong...social changes happen in a much faster pace than to follow them...also, I realized that the "written" documents can only reflect so much of the changes. For the rest, one has to be in the heart of action to feel and breathe the changes...
On summary, I was happy to see the changes in culture...mass of media are produced for everyone and are accessible by every one at unbelievably cheap prices. I think the prices of books; movies and software are second to none as compared with the rest of day to day expenses. On the other hand, I was sad to hear that for the same reason it took a few years for these changes to materialize after Khatami took over, they might even disappear a a short time because the new team considers every thing from "security" point of view...This is horrific since I know it by heart now more than ever, in order to build our country, we need to improve our culture...
I will discuss my other observations in future.
I also came back here to say, I am here...just too busy! However, I have decided to activate my English web log and try to spread my observations around. I guess one problem when analyzing Iran's issues is lack of enough knowledge of what really is happening there. Maybe if every one try to reflect what truly is going on, then we can make a difference...
