Category: journal/facebook-status

Patience is an anti-value in technology.
via Facebook 2020-07-11T00:18:10.000Z

“They were not, with few exceptions, readers — never had been; that they had always occupied themselves with music, TV, and videos; they had difficulty slowing down enough to concentrate on prose of any density.”

Literary critic Sven Birkerts tells a story about his experience teaching an undergraduate course on short stories in 1994.

He tried to solicit opinions on the story he’d selected, but came up short. “My students could barely muster the energy for a thumbs-up or -down,” he writes. “It was as though some pneumatic pump had sucked out the last dregs of their spirits.”

That was 1994. Imagine 2020.

“For in fact, our entire collective subjective history — the soul of our societal body, is encoded in print. Is encoded, and has for countless generations been passed along by way of the word, mainly through books.”

#reading
via Facebook 2020-06-27T13:16:39.000Z

Be a builder not a destroyer.
via Facebook 2020-06-26T00:15:37.000Z

يقُسّم الوطن العربي و الدولة العربية الضائعة الى خمسة اقسام:

١. قسم محتل من قبل الاستعمار مباشرةً:

فلسطين

٢. قسم محتل من جهة محلية ممثلة او حليفة للاستعمار:

الكويت
قطر
البحرين
الامارات
سلطنة عمان
السعودية
الاردن
العراق
المغرب
لبنان

٣. قسم انقلب على الحكومة الاستعمارية و شكل سلطة فاشية قمعية:

سوريا
مصر
السودان
الجزائر
موريتانيا
الصومال
جيبوتي

٤. قسم يعيش معركة تقسيم ومحاولة استعمار جديدة:

اليمن
ليبيا
الصحراء العربية

٥. قسم يعيش الخطوات الأولى لمحاولته الديموقراطية:
تونس

لا يمكن للعالم العربي من الخروج من ازمته حتى يخرج من الاستعمار و مخلفاته و يتخلص من الفاشية.
via Facebook 2020-06-16T23:18:44.000Z

White supremacy or racism are types of ignorance and therefore they are a by product of the weakness of the education system in America.

American schools continue to be segregated because of their geographical boundaries based on segregated cities. Curriculums continue to cater to the satisfaction of the “stake holders” which is a betrayal to education. Teachers are chosen to fit the “environment” of the students or the “school culture” which decreases their diversity. Topics deemed “controversial” are avoided in classroom. Teachers opinion limits free speech in classroom most of the time because of intolerance to intellectual opposition.

There are rarely any diverse schools in America, and there are rarely a true implementation of the curriculum.

Finally, the curriculum, although not bad, needs work and updating to serve the needs of the time.
via Facebook 2020-06-07T17:57:17.000Z

“الله يهديك” هو دعاء قبيح لانه يكتنف على شيء من الفوقية الاخلاقية.

“May God guide you” is an ugly prayer because it assumes most of the time a moral superiority.

“Moral superiority is the belief or attitude that one’s position and actions are justified by having higher moral values than others. It can refer to: Morality, when two systems of morality are compared. Self-righteousness, when proclamations of moral superiority become a negative personal trait.”
via Facebook 2020-06-07T15:07:14.000Z

While we should always mobilize to fight against racism, police brutality, and fascism, we also need to mobilize against apartheid, occupation, dictatorships around the world, suppression of freedom of expression, blasphemy laws, oppression against women and minorities, drug use and trade,religious persecution, unjust wars, corruption, and abusive oligarchies and monarchies.

During the 8 minutes George Floyd was detained and murdered, there was 1 one woman rapped in America, and 4 women rapped in the world, 12 committed suicide, 10 women domestically abused, 14 children reported abused, 2 elderly are victimized by a violent crime, 13 persons assaulted, 100 homes robbed, a yemeni child under the age of five died due to Saudi-American siege, 194 children are in Israeli prisons, 3 women admitted to ER for overdose and 1 person died, over a million Muslim Chinese are in concentration camps, and about 4000 migrant child are in US custody.

And guess what, many people don’t care or know or do anything about it, and they don’t even take a minute to vote in the elections.

Anarchy and chaos and mob mentality belong to prehistory.
Business are owned by families and mother and fathers and daughters and sons who have put their sweet and blood in building.

Big corporations are mostly publicly owned and they contain the retirement plans of teachers and fire fighters and nurses.
We are not in feudal society anymore.

Malcom X never advocated looting or crime or destruction of property. He only advocated self defense.

We need to step back and examine our reactions to all abuses in the world, and our killing silence to most of them.

#AmnestyInternational
via Facebook 2020-06-01T20:14:34.000Z

If you are going to count “spiritual needs” as essential, then open up museums and theaters for me.

But I don’t mind them closed in support of our governor’s safety measures.

#essentialplaces
via Facebook 2020-05-24T15:10:07.000Z

If you want to know why most religions and civilizations came from the Fertile Crescent in two words, they would be: barley and wheat.

#gunsgermsandsteel
via Facebook 2020-05-21T18:13:05.000Z