Category: Facebook & Twitter

Selections of Status Updates, Notes, Comments and Tweets made since 2009, a year which coincided with the gradual discovery by Arab and Middle Eastern activists of the potential of Facebook and Twitter as tools for social and political activism.

Tweets Of Self-Awareness

  1. The first gift of self-awareness was emptiness. The second was fear. The third was a sense of betrayal. The fourth was anger, and madness. 3:56 AM Jun 13th
  2. The fifth gift of self-awareness was self-reflection. The sixth was wonder. The seventh imagination and daydreams. The eighth inventiveness. 4:00 AM Jun 13th
  3. Evil predates good. Evil is the rule, the norm. Good the exception, the abnormal condition which we are busy trying to impose upon the world 4:04 AM Jun 13th
  4. The first human act was violent, because it was borne out of anger and frustration. That’s why we yearn for self-redemption and salvation. 4:30 AM Jun 13th
  5. Self-awareness made us conscious of the consequences of our violent nature and bred guilt. Guilt called for redemption and invented “good.” 4:38 AM Jun 13th

 

Tweeting Against Tyranny

  1. People can behave and think pragmatically only when they have something to lose. Impoverished, we become radicals incapable of compromise. 4:38 PM May 29th
  2. So the Wall is still standing and my head bleeds! So what? At least I have something to warm me, to cover my shame. My blood is my fig leaf. 7:29 PM May 29th
  3. Those who reduce our current dilemma to a choice between peace and freedom deprive us of both. 10:48 PM May 29th
  4. We fight for freedom. We fight for peace. We fight for justice. We fight for hope. We fight for love. Fighting is how we communicate best. 12:36 AM May 30th
  5. If you want to change the world, then put something of yourself in it. That’s the best recipe for change I know, for better or worse. 8:19 PM May 31st Continue reading “Tweeting Against Tyranny” →

The Global Middle Class & Global Power Politics

Few observations tweeted on June 2, 2009 regarding a favorite topic of mine: the slow and necessary emergence of a global middle class. 

  1. An empowered and well-informed Global Middle Class can help open up the decision-making processes within the power elites.
  1. An empowered well-informed Global Middle Class can help check conflicts of interests between power elites through the democratic processes.
  1. The continuing prevalence of violent conflicts today results in part from the unawareness of the Global Middle Class of its own existence.  Continue reading “The Global Middle Class & Global Power Politics” →

Few Tweets of Obama and Pipedreams

  1. In our struggle to even things out, to bring a measure of justice into our lives, we should always be aware that the odds are against us. 4:28 PM May 24th
  2. Describing an ugly reality is not the same as endorsing it. We have to know what we are dealing with here. Freedom is not easily achieved. 4:32 PM May 24th
  3. Life is not just. Freedom is not a given. We have to fight hard to get where we want, and have to remain true to who we are in the process. 4:43 PM May 24th
  4. As the world unravels into multipolarity, peace and security, for many, become more hollow as concepts, and more untenable as realities. 3:43 AM May 25th
  5. Ours is an age of many fast-paced transformations, too far reaching, too overwhelming, the violent atavistic backlash is already unfolding. 3:56 AM May 25th Continue reading “Few Tweets of Obama and Pipedreams” →