I was trying to explain to my boss how Twitter has changed the world. It isn't easy to wrap your mind around if you aren't familiar with the tweets and whatnot.
There is no better example of the power of the internets, free speech, and connectivity than what has been happening in IRAN with the fake election. Communication cannot be denied and this new wacky portal called Twitter is keeping us all in the front seat, for good or bad. I think it is an amazing tool.
Globally, consciously we must support these people. When you look at the photos it is painfully obvious that we are all alike. We all yearn for freedom. We all want a future, a family, love, clean air to breathe, and place to live without fear of bombs and war and being gunned down for speaking up or holding a sign in the streets.
Why should a girl in Michigan (or Idaho, or Minnesota, or California, or Oregon,) care about these Iranian people? Forget about the fact that the CRAZY freak dictator who is stealing the election has the power and the means to harm us and our so-called allies, but remember HISTORY and how many empires have turned to dust by one flub up (or a million in-actions.) Now the Romans didn't have Twitter, but if it were your election being stolen by an idiot, how would you feel? (Oh wait, that already happened to us once, in the year 2000, and nothing really happened...)
The Iranian people don't have the cushy lives we have and maybe that is why they were more willing to RISK THEIR LIVES to tell the rest of the planet that they are getting robbed and they need help. All actions have consequences. I think we can all get that concept with our recent past, but if it were you there in Iran....what would you hope would happen as this plays out? Is there such a thing in 2009 as peaceful diplomacy? Is it all a game of liars chess? It's hard for most people with any sense of human compassion to watch.
Here is my big preachy part of the posting:
Make this 4th of July count by acknowledging the meaning of the day in your soul with ACTION, (big or small.) Can you doubt that you were so lucky to be born here, (even with all of our literal and figurative garbage,) and especially if you are a WOMAN??! Make the most of what you have and NEVER take it for granted.
Go make something happen! Recycle a failed idea and make it work. Speak up. Be less embarrassed to have a point-of-view.
Twitter, which is (dare I say,) revolutionizing the way we communicate globally, was just invented on March 21st, 2006 when this guy Jack Dorsey thought, "I want to have a dispatch service that connects my friends and I on our phones using text." It was just an idea to tell friends "the club I am at tonight is really happening right now!"
(Do people still use the term "happening"? How hip to be square!)
His friends called his invention "friend stalker", but now his idea is helping an entire country demand their freedom (or at least brodcast the truth,) 140 characters at a time.
Awesome.
This club is Happening? How 2007! I believe the term you seek is "off the hizzle."
Posted by: mfs | June 30, 2009 at 03:38 PM