Tunisphere: March 20, Mayans and Arabs. · Global Voices
samsoum

March 20 is normally the day when my fellow citizens celebrate our independence day (3/20/1956).
But it also happens to be the celebration of the fourth year of Iraq invasion by the US and its allies and that was reflected on some Tunisian blogs like Temeraire in his post “March 20th, colonization and independence”  where he reminds us that our independence day is to be remembered forever also as the horrible date of Iraq colonization by the “American empire”.
“Tank-borne democracy” has resulted in horrific figures in terms of the number of bombs, deaths and the mistreatment and torture so carelessly meted out. Today there is no hope whatsoever that peace will return to the land of the Tigris and Euphrates.
Alluding to the lack of freedom, Stupeur wrote a very subtle post “51%: We lost the opportunity to have an opportunity”
Oh yeah, we've lost the chance to have a chance!
On this day, March 20, the board met and announced that repression
would be the majority shareholder in our company!
A shareholder of great financial, ideological and socio-cultural
importance.
He is capable of buying even more shares at the expense of other
shareholders.
A consuming company where the large eat the small.
BigTrapBoy, a very popular and smart blogger (my favorite actually), wrote about the movie “Apocalypto” and made a very pertinent comparison between the Mayas and the Arabs.
“A great civilisation is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.”
Will Durant.
Ce sera ma pensée du jour. A méditer, non?
Pour ce qui est du film, l'histoire se passe à l'époque de la civilisation Maya en Amérique du sud, mais il est clair que Mel Gibson a voulu faire le parallèle avec ce qui se passe dans le monde de nos jours. Les peuples arabes seront-ils les prochains Mayas? La question peut se poser.
I just saw “Apocalypto” again, the last film by Mel Gibson which I
liked alot. I'd like to recommend it to you and moreover cite the
quotation which appears at the beginning of the film, a quotation
full of truth:
“A great civilisation is not conquered from without until it has
destroyed itself from within.”
Will Durant.
That's my “thought of the day”. Something to think about, no?
With regard to the film itself, the story takes place at the time of
the Mayan civilisation in South America, but it's clear that Mel
Gibson wished to draw parallels with what it going on in the world
today. Are the Arabs the Mayans of today, one might ask?