Something that has been an amazing after effect of blogging for so many years is the destruction of cultural boundaries and bias within my own person.
It’s been freeing, to say the least.
I remember during young elementary school that a boy, who’s name was Saddam Hussein, became immediately the center of the entire school the moment that the much more well-known Saddam Hussein went all crazy-style with the 1st Iraq War (Gulf War).
I remember one morning at gym class and this boy came walking in to play. Silence. Everyone stopped playing and we all just stared.
Or, rather, I stared at all the other kids (I obviously was a little “out of it” and didn’t make the connection until much later) and wondered what had happened to our indoor kickball game.
That was the last day I saw the little boy Saddam in school.
But times have changed.
Blogs are, in some cultures, creating a “revolution within the revolution” and people are paying the price. For some, the “ultimate” price.
My heart goes out to them, and selfishly I rejoice that my heart can even burn for them, a testament of what blogs have done to transform my cultural perception into the reality that all men everywhere are much more similar to me that I, at one point, dared to believe.
Read more about the “conflict” here and an Iranian Blogger Killed Because of His Blog.
[Image from H-K-D]
Ancoti says
You have gone form the oblivion of youth to the sensitivity of an adult using blogging as one avenue. Do you imagine how different the voyage with the blog?
human3rror says
i sometimes do, yes.
interesting how technology has changed my heart.