Why I say The Tunisia Revolution is Boring
- What I mean when I say the revolution is boring .. It's not that it really is boring boring .. it's just I feel the opposite of the students who feel happy, happy
- "Isn't it good we have an amazing revolution" Happy Happy lets wave the flag the Tunisian students say, I'd like to agree with them and be happy, but right from the beginning I think they are so naive. I am so negative about a lot of things, because I old and have enough experience to know that when you think something is simple it turns out to be rally complictaed. Yes great for political prisoners many of them are free, but for the rest of things it's only the beginning of the long road to a democratic society, which is itself is only the beginnging of a just society. The things that they expect soon will take 5 or 10 years to come.
| Facebook and Tunisian "Revolution"
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- I think people who spend all there time on Facebook speculating is rather boring.
There is no point guessing what will happen : what will happen will happen.
and As a foreigner the political situation in Tunisia is none of my business
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There is only one reality the truth , but there are a billion fantasies.
Rather that say "I don't know", most people are too quick to believe a simple fantasy explanations.
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Then when after time the true facts arise .. the explantion is complex and difficult so people prefer to stick to the
simple explanation.
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my problem is, that to explain things properly a lot of time is needed.
Facebook is convenient for the flippant shallow comments , but these don' explain the world properly. There are many reasons why facebook is a load of crap.
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I still keep meeting secret policemen and informants , but it doesn't bother me cos I always tell the truth anyway.
I think during Ben Ali people were accustomed to not telling the truth ;; so now they feel they can talk freely , but I have always been able to talk freely ;; that's why the revolution doesn't make much difference to me.
| Police Officers Pushed the Manger of a Coffee shop in Kef to Suicide
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interesting to see radio kalima is no longer banned some good English
Language stories in their archive
eg
Police Officers Push the Manger of a Coffee shop in Kef to Suicide
story says they never paid and intimidated other clients
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"Tunisians
are well educated" :Fallacy
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I am worried about people chanting simplistic phrases like "tunisians
are well educated", using it in a way to say life here should be the
same as France.
- People here are just as intelligent as people in the rest of the world,
and there is no reason why in the future it shouldn't surpass France in
terms of wealth and lifestyle. But today even with a perfect government
it won't be like France soon as certain culturtural attitudes hold the
society back ...as regards the people who don't respect the enviroment,
respect queues, respect other peoples time, and the small perecentage
who overcharge etc.
- I guess we could say that people will have a fair platform to complete
fairly with the rest of the world .. and then people will be able to
prove how good they are by doing the job better than people in other
countries.
- Tunisians are well educated : an obvious fallacy on so many levels. Tunisians are just as intelligent as the rest of the world. But you cannot sum up the diversity of a population in such simple terms there intelligent people, and stupid people , there those that left school at 15 those at 18 those at 21 even those at 24. You would never say such a meaningless thing about Germans or Americans, do you mean intelligent ? do you mean many hours of study ? Do you mean quality of study ?
Speak languages, but being naïve about politics they will believe the first promises of politicians, Why I say Revolution is boring, wrong about one thing, but not about huge picture..
| A Strange Thing : The Streets are Full Of Garbage yet people complain if I throw bread down
| People in Tunisia mostly throw wrappers on the ground, it's covered with them yet when I throw bread crust on the same ground 2 times people have come across to criticise. ... whats that about ?
- What's wrong with throwing bread down ? Surely it's bio-degradeable .. it won't be there in a couple of days, but the garbage they throw down will be an eyesore for months as well as damaging the enviroment.
- Thanks to Connie ... she explained that that comes from the Koran cos it says you must repect bread
.. and then it's the normal thing about "different cultures, different eyes" - Tunisians don't see garbage, but we do, and secondly since they don't feel any sense of ownership for the street they don't feel any need to keep it clean like they would the inside of their home..
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