the constant skeptic

To begin, a quote:
“Only a perfect lie can turn into dogma that millions of people believe in.”

Can this be true for the false idea of ‘nationalism‘ as well? Nationalism as defined by the constant skeptic is the false belief that the country you happened to be born in is better than any other and worth going to war over and killing others who believe the same thing about their country.

I just stumbled upon an article from IHT (International Herald Tribune) about Iranian bloggers… which sounds oxymoronic to me (yes I just made up a word) but it seems to be true. I also found out that over there they have a ban on youtube.com and the Farsi language site on the BBC.com.

The most outrageous thing the government did recently was to ban high-speed internet service in private homes. I’m sure this ban doesn’t include the wealthy elite.

IHT states that “Iran has a long tradition of controlling the airwaves and the print
media, banning papers and jailing journalists who criticize official
policies.” but “Iran’s online activists have proved harder to squash.” Hmmm, hard to tell if IHT is pro-gov or not…

Why not just start chopping off fingers? You can’t blog with bloody stumps for hands…. or can you?

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