I went to see this great movie last week called Perepolis. It tales of a girl growing up in Iran, and her families struggles with freedoms, and civil wars. Tim I think you would enjoy the movie. And it started me thinking about my place in the fight for freedom. Thinking of myself in that girls situation, would I have stayed and fought Big Brother or would I have fled the county to begin anew some place else. I believe I would not have blinked an eye and have been out of there fast enough to leave one of those looney toons puffs of smoke, even if that place was the USA. Is this because I don't have enough national pride, or life experience to know I should fight for my place in the world. I tend to think that I place to high a value on my own life to become a freedom fighter when I could much more easily move to another country and begin a new life.
I am still left with these questions, When in freedom worth fighting for? At what point do you start fighting for it? At what point is to much freedom taken away for you to stand up and fight for it? Because we have been losing many civil liberties lately and this line of thinking makes me wonder, should have been standing up to this removal of rights? Should I stay in a country where they are so easily removed?
Always questioning
-Zachary
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