Saturday, January 29, 2011

a political perspective

as easy categorising people as it may seem, it is not an easy job. but it is easy to have a number of categories based on let say political views and say some people belong to this and that, then say there people who belong to neither. probably a very safe approach, or not.
anyways, the reason for nonsense above is my encounters with different opinions in the wake of recent unrest in Egypt and Tunisia and the rest of the Arab World. i wondered how to categorise people from a political perspective and i came to the conclusion that the following categories exist:
1- the first category are those who don't really give a rat ass about whatever happens around them - they are the people who always somehow bully others no matter if they are pro or against a political system. in their view others are wasting their time.
2- those who believe in theory of conspiracy - they are the ones who believe there is a wicked hand behind whatever happens in world. for instance, west needs new dictators in power in middle east.
3- agnostics - they believe whatever happens is for worse and there's no hope for future. so if someone asks, whether the wave of protests started in  middle east would hit Iran or not? they would answer, it has hit Iran 30 years ago!
4- optimists who try to be realistic - they believe there are always hope but realistically there's no time for it. i may fit in here. they try not to predict and we always say, i don't know we have to wait and see. a "But" may come after that!
5- overly optimists - they think they can change the world. i can most of the time fit in here. they are defiant and never accept the status quo. they say: let's hope the wave of change comes to Iran!
6- they are the ones who does not belong to any of above!

thinking about the above, if i am not 4 or 5, i would definitely want to fit in number 2, but be of the ones who actually decide about what happens and where it happens!