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I used to work in journalism - I knew very well that when they needed to bend the truth to give the story that added bit of razzle-dazzle, they will throw journalistic credibility to the wind and go for it.
With that in mind, I make my comparison:
Living in Iran today must be exactly the same as living in a very steamy and seedy (noir) novel about Authoritarianism, Corruption AND the peoples rebellion against the state.
Apparently, with the streets the Taliban police so well below them, in the buildings above they're taking opium that cost less than a candy bar and indulging in wild orgies for weeks at a time, moving from place to place so they don’t get caught.
Sure, there is the strife about the few poorer families who aren’t really getting off on the entire state but living through the hell of it. And there are the authoritarian matriarchal women who police the street just so they can report women wearing lipstick - but above all of that, encompassing it all, below the radar of religious conformity is a society rebelling in (possibly) the best possible way ever.
Banned from taking drugs, drinking alcohol or having sex outside of arranged marriage, they are bingeing on opium, swigging back home-made alcohol (rumour mill suggests it's 30% proof) and having orgies. So Iran has basically turned into a Raymond Chandler novel.
The risk these people are taking - they know quite well, heck the world knows the risks from outside - and they don’t care. They do it. And this is not a handful of people, this is not a few stray gangs kicking up a storm to rebel against the system, this is 40% of the people.
To comprehend the risks - you get an STD, you're fucked. Doctor reports it to the local Taliban if you're not married so you're stuck with it. Get pregnant? Got a knitting needle to hand? Or pay random woman to pour cold tea down there until it snuffs the little one out? Oh get caught with your pants down and get it either stitched up of cut off.
This is a world where authority to God is unquestionable weather you like it or not. A world where you will conform to their ideals or you will not live to rebel. And yet 40% of the population is daring to live outside the rusting Iron-grip that is maniacal authority.
That is fucking awesome. Foolish. But fucking awesome.
They are living 1984 people. I’m not really envious as I have my freedom (and im only writing this to write something) but - Just wow.
Read the newspaper report HERE
I used to work in journalism - I knew very well that when they needed to bend the truth to give the story that added bit of razzle-dazzle, they will throw journalistic credibility to the wind and go for it.
With that in mind, I make my comparison:
Living in Iran today must be exactly the same as living in a very steamy and seedy (noir) novel about Authoritarianism, Corruption AND the peoples rebellion against the state.
Apparently, with the streets the Taliban police so well below them, in the buildings above they're taking opium that cost less than a candy bar and indulging in wild orgies for weeks at a time, moving from place to place so they don’t get caught.
Sure, there is the strife about the few poorer families who aren’t really getting off on the entire state but living through the hell of it. And there are the authoritarian matriarchal women who police the street just so they can report women wearing lipstick - but above all of that, encompassing it all, below the radar of religious conformity is a society rebelling in (possibly) the best possible way ever.
Banned from taking drugs, drinking alcohol or having sex outside of arranged marriage, they are bingeing on opium, swigging back home-made alcohol (rumour mill suggests it's 30% proof) and having orgies. So Iran has basically turned into a Raymond Chandler novel.
The risk these people are taking - they know quite well, heck the world knows the risks from outside - and they don’t care. They do it. And this is not a handful of people, this is not a few stray gangs kicking up a storm to rebel against the system, this is 40% of the people.
To comprehend the risks - you get an STD, you're fucked. Doctor reports it to the local Taliban if you're not married so you're stuck with it. Get pregnant? Got a knitting needle to hand? Or pay random woman to pour cold tea down there until it snuffs the little one out? Oh get caught with your pants down and get it either stitched up of cut off.
This is a world where authority to God is unquestionable weather you like it or not. A world where you will conform to their ideals or you will not live to rebel. And yet 40% of the population is daring to live outside the rusting Iron-grip that is maniacal authority.
That is fucking awesome. Foolish. But fucking awesome.
They are living 1984 people. I’m not really envious as I have my freedom (and im only writing this to write something) but - Just wow.
Read the newspaper report HERE
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