My 2 cents

No more spiked hair!

I’ve not written my blog in 3 days. News hasn’t been interesting enough to comment on. Well the Iranians Changed that!

I read an article which I found both sad and amusing, coming out of the AP newswire. It seems that the hard line Islamic government of Iran has issued an edict to barbershops in Iran, banning western stile haircuts, eyebrow plucking, and make-up application on Iranian men. Barbers caught doing these procedures will face stiff fines, and can run the risk of loosing their license to do business.

The sad thing, is that their government feels it can control the free will of their nations young people. Look back through history, you wont have too far to look, and you’ll find that suppressing the free will of the people doesn’t work. Ask King Louie of France, he lost his head over keeping the little man down. King George III, lost the American colonies, Czar Nicolas, the list goes on. Even here, in the land of the free, kids quit cutting their hair, adopted the drug culture, free love, burned their bras, protested their government, all to the dismay of their parents.

It occurs to me, that all we need to do to change things in that country, is flaunt what we have. Set up radio stations, which broadcast western music and ideals. Analog television signals, broadcasting educational, political, and social programming, intermixed with a good portion of commercials. Show them what their missing. If MTV, The Simpson’s, and South Park can’t incite the younger generation to overthrow their government and adopt western lifestyles, I would be surprised.