Comments on: Iran is Taking Marc Stiegler’s Final Exam http://www.joeydevilla.com/2009/06/25/iran-is-taking-marc-stieglers-final-exam/ Joey deVilla's Personal Blog Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:35:06 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Joey deVilla http://www.joeydevilla.com/2009/06/25/iran-is-taking-marc-stieglers-final-exam/comment-page-1/#comment-25281 Joey deVilla Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:46:11 +0000 http://www.joeydevilla.com/2009/06/25/iran-is-taking-marc-stieglers-final-exam/#comment-25281 <strong>Thane Eichenauer:</strong> Oftentimes, it's the tools that enable us to take what's in our heads and turn them into reality. Thane Eichenauer: Oftentimes, it’s the tools that enable us to take what’s in our heads and turn them into reality.

]]> By: Thane Eichenauer http://www.joeydevilla.com/2009/06/25/iran-is-taking-marc-stieglers-final-exam/comment-page-1/#comment-25279 Thane Eichenauer Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:31:42 +0000 http://www.joeydevilla.com/2009/06/25/iran-is-taking-marc-stieglers-final-exam/#comment-25279 Freedom is born (or dies) in your own head. Technology is only a tool people use to aid freedom or impair freedom. Freedom is born (or dies) in your own head. Technology is only a tool people use to aid freedom or impair freedom.

]]> By: Chris Taylor http://www.joeydevilla.com/2009/06/25/iran-is-taking-marc-stieglers-final-exam/comment-page-1/#comment-25126 Chris Taylor Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:56:46 +0000 http://www.joeydevilla.com/2009/06/25/iran-is-taking-marc-stieglers-final-exam/#comment-25126 Maybe I'm just a cynic but I don't see the utility of this test. We have known for almost 30 years that the Iranian theocracy was a horribly oppressive and corrupt edifice. It's not as if the ugly truth is just coming to light now. We also know from several thousand years of recorded human history that people in general do not like oppressive and corrupt rulers. Persian expats get together and protest the rule of the mullahs right here in Toronto pretty well every year; I've been to a few. There is never media coverage. All those Iranian tweets aren't telling us anything we haven't already known for ages. There's no question that a bunch of guys armed with Twitter don't stand any real chance against guys armed with AKs, The only hope the tweeters have is that someone else is going to see the slaughter and try to do something about it. The real test is for us--whether we we can look at the torrent of human misery and act in a tangible, credible way, or take the easy route and simply change the channel or click another bookmark. Maybe I’m just a cynic but I don’t see the utility of this test. We have known for almost 30 years that the Iranian theocracy was a horribly oppressive and corrupt edifice. It’s not as if the ugly truth is just coming to light now. We also know from several thousand years of recorded human history that people in general do not like oppressive and corrupt rulers. Persian expats get together and protest the rule of the mullahs right here in Toronto pretty well every year; I’ve been to a few. There is never media coverage.

All those Iranian tweets aren’t telling us anything we haven’t already known for ages.

There’s no question that a bunch of guys armed with Twitter don’t stand any real chance against guys armed with AKs, The only hope the tweeters have is that someone else is going to see the slaughter and try to do something about it.

The real test is for us–whether we we can look at the torrent of human misery and act in a tangible, credible way, or take the easy route and simply change the channel or click another bookmark.

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