29 Sep- Trinity and beyond

آگوست دو سال پیش شبکه ي بی بی سی به مناسبت سالگرد بمباران اتمى هيرشيما و ناكازاكى گزارشى پخش ميكرد. با بازماندگان حادثه و اقوام اونها و بعضيهاى ديگه كه به اين موضوع مربوط ميشدن مصاحبه ميكرد. سوالهايى در مورد تجربيات بازماندگان، تاثيرات شيميايى اون يا ديد مردم در مورد آمريكا به خاطر پرتاب بمب. يكى از سوالات، نظر كلى مردم رو در مورد انداختن بمب اتمى در هيروشيما و ناكازاكى ميپرسيد. جالبه كه بعضى از اونا كه ژاپنى هم بودن موافق اين موضوع بودن. دليلشون هم خاتمه ى جنگ جهانى و جلوگيرى از كشته شدن بيشترى از مردم بيگناه بود. كنجكاو شدم بفهمم چه منطقى پشت اين جواب غير منطقى ميتونه باشه. بعد از خوندن تاريخچه ى جنگ جهانى دوم و پروژه هسته اى آمريكا و جريان بمباران اتمى هيروشيما و ناكازاكى فهميدم كه جواب اونها خيلى هم احمقانه نيست.

بعد از خوندن ماجرا چيزى كه خيلى منو ناراحت كرد كشته شدن يه عده بيگناه به خاطر قدرت طلبى و زورگويى چند نفر بود. ولى چيزى كه به نظرم اهميتى نداشت مليت اون انسانهاى بيگناه بود. فكر كنم دليلش هم خيلى واضحه. چون اين اتفاق ميتونست براى مردم آمريكا بيفته اگر بمب اتمى توسط ژاپنيها كشف ميشد، يا اگه آلمانها اونو كشف ميكردن، مردم بيگناهى از شوروى كشته مى شدن يا بر عكس. در ضمن جنگ جهانى دوم ژاپن جزو نيروهاى متحدين بود كه به چين حمله ميكنه. يعنى ژاپن هم يه كشور استعمار گر بوده و اين ديد مظلوم گرايانه اى كه عوام از جمله رييس جمهورمون در مورد ژاپن دارن فكر كنم خيلى بى مورد باشه.

مردم بيگناه هميشه هستن كه قربانى دست يه عده تشنه ى-قدرت- و-سياست بشن. اين عده بيگناه ميتونه ژاپنى هايى باشه كه در جنگ جهانى دوم كشته شدن، ميتونه مردم بيگناهى باشه كه در جنگ ايران و عراق كشته شدن، ميتونه آمريكاييهايى 11 سپتامبر يا افغانيها باشن.

يه مطلب تكان دهنده و نگران كننده كه در مورد بمباران هيروشيما و ناكازاكى و كلا جنگ جهانى خوندم، استفاده تماما ابزارى از علم بود. منظورم دقيقا پروژه ى منهتن هست كه طبق اون بمب هسته اى رو توليد كردن. باورش خيلى سخته كه اين همه دانشمند جمع شده بشن، هدفشون هم فقط و فقط ساخت بمب و انداختن اون بر سر آدماى بخت برگشته و بى خبر از همه جا باشه. درسته كه دانشمندان هم اين حق رو به عنوان يه انسان دارن كه از اونها يا علمشون سو استفاده بشه، ولى به نظرم بايد بين منطق يه آدم عادى (مثلا آمريكايى) كه تحت تاثير تبليغات سياسى قرار ميگيره و تفنگ به دست ميگيره مثلا ميره افغانستان آدم ميكشه با منطق يه دانشمند كه به نظر ميرسه از قدرت تحليل بالاترى برخورداره، بايد فرقى باشه.

اين موضوع مربوط به 50-60 سال پيش هست جالبه كه هنوز هم همون روند داره پيش ميره. هنوز هم كسايى در راس هستن كه از علم براى پيشبرد اهداف غير انسانيشون استفاده ميكنن. هر چند سهم من در پيشبرد علم شايد در حده خيلى ناچيزى باشه شايد هم هيچ، ولى بعضى وقتا فكر ميكنم نكنه من هم به نحوى دارم به اين جريان كمك ميكنم.

چند وقت پيش يكى ازدوستان حرف خيلى منطقى زد. گفت كه اين ما هستيم كه از علم سو استفاده ى ابزارى! ميكنيم. مثلا اينكه ميتونيم با هواپيما از اينوره دنيا به اون وره دنيا بدون دغدغه مسافرت كنيم در حقيقيت يك جور سو استفاده از هواپيماست، چون هواپيما به منظور مصارف جنگى ساخته شده، حداقل پيشرفته صنعت هوايى به اين خاطر بوده. در مورد خيلى از موارد ديگه هم ميشه اين رو گفت، مثل موبايل يا اينترنت يا انرژى هسته اى. موارد استفاده ى اينها همه در پروژه هاى نظامى بوده و كاربردشون در زندگى روزمره بعدها كشف شده!

انگيزه ياد آورى اين مطالب ديدن فيلمى بود به نام فراتر از ترى نى تى* كه يك مستند از پيشرفت پروژه هسته اى در دنيا هست. در اين فيلم خيلى روشن ميشه فهميد كه چطور قسمت زيادى از پيشرفت تمام علوم مديون پيشرفت احمقانه ى سلاحهاى هسته اى بوده.

و در آخر اينكه نوشتن اين متن هيچ ربطى به سياستها يا اوضاع كنونى كشورمون نداره. و بيشتر يك ديد خييلى كلى بود.

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image from http://nmhm.washingtondc.museum/assets/images/Able2.jpg


* Trinity and Beyond

17 Sep: Us and them

چقدر زمان به سرعت ميگذره و ما هيچ وقت بهش نميرسيم، ديروز داشتم بلاگى ميخوندم در مورد همين موضوع. اينكه هميشه از گذشته فرارى هستيم و به دنبال آينده ميدويم. اين منو ياد آهنگ Time و Breathe از پينك فلويد انداخت. آهنگ ها رو پيدا كردم و براى چندمين بار گوش دادم.

Breathe, breathe in the air
Don't be afraid to care
Leave but don't leave me
Look around and chose your own ground
For long you live and high you fly
And smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry
And all you touch and all you see
Is all your life will ever be

اين قسمت يه زندگى متعادل رو نشون ميده، يه زندگى آرام، يه زندگى كه با لحظه ها پيش ميره، لحظه هاى گريه ، لحظه هاى خنده، چيزايى كه ميبينى و لمس ميكنى. اينها معناى زندگى

Run, run rabbit run
Dig that hole, forget the sun,
And when at last the work is done
Don't sit down, it's time to dig another one

اما اين قسمت يك زندگى واقعى رو نشون ميده، زندگى كه همش در حال دويدنى، لحظه اى وقت براى نشستن و لذت بردن از گرماى خورشيد نيست. زندگى كه بايد بجنگى. اما در آخر چى نصيبت ميشه:

For long you live and high you fly
But only if you ride the tide
And balanced on the biggest wave
You race toward an early grave.

در ادامه این آهنگ، آهنگ تایم هست كه اونم در تاييد اینه.:

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way

Tired of lying in the sunshine
Staying home to watch the rain
And you are young and life is long
And there is time to kill today
And then one day you find
Ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run
You missed the starting gun

And you run, and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

لحظه ها تكرارى و خسته كننده شدن، و زندگى روزمره شده، لحظه ها به هدر ميرن. خسته از خوابيدن زير آفتاب، خسته از تماشاى بارون از پنجره.

سالها همين طورى به هدر ميره و تو نقطه شروع رو گم كردى. منتظر كسى كه راه رو به تو نشون بده.

و اما تو ميدوى، ميدوى كه لحظه ها رو به هدر ندى، ميدوى كه به خورشيد برسى. هر روز توان و انرژيت كمتر ميشه ولى خورشيد مثل هر روز.

Every year is getting shorter
Never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught
Or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone
The song is over
Thought I'd something more to say

هر روز خسته تر، دلسرد و ناميد. هر سال كوتاه تر و تو به نقطه پايان زندگي نزديك تر ولى زمان رو از دست دادى.

Home, home again
I like to be here when I can
When I come home cold and tired
It's good to warm my bones beside the fire
Far away across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells

و حالا دوباره ياد خونه ميفتى. دوست دارى دوباره بارون رو از پشت شيشه تماشا كنى. وقتی سردت بشه كنار بخاری خودتو گرم كنى. دوست دارى زير آفتاب دراز بكشى.

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I was looking for the lyrics of these two songs and later I came up with Us and Them, from the same album (Dark side of the moon) which I also like. In my surprise I realized that Richard Wright, who wrote the song, has just passed away. This made me to listen to lot of Pink Floyd yesterday and Today.

In fact I generally listen to rock music a lot, because of its aggression, especially when you are forced by yourself to cover your depression and desperation; this aggression heals your feelings. But none of the band caught me like Pink Floyd. In a situation you need someone gives you the description of the outside world rather than try to give you a nonsense hope, and this is about a lot of Pink Floyd songs. Time and Breathe. Comfortably numb, sit in a chair and close your eyes and you think it reads through your messed up feeling line by line. Eclipse:

All that you touch
All that you see
All that you taste
All you feel
All that you love
All that you hate
All you distrust
All you save
All that you give
All that you deal
All that you buy
beg, borrow or steal
All you create
All you destroy
All that you do
All that you say
All that you eat
everyone you meet
All that you slight
everyone you fight
All that is now
All that is gone
All that's to come
And everything under the sun is in tune
But the sun is eclipsed by the moon.
There is no dark side of the moon really.
Matter of fact it's all dark.

If someone does tell you about dark side of the moon, then you don’t need to worry about yourself, then you don’t need to have hope, and then you understand that everything is based on the situation of the moon and sun and planets and stars in the galaxies. You don’t need to worry about the philosophy of life (because there is not any); and this is actually an absolute hope.

Animals, The Final Cut, Hey you and lot of other songs all of which have a lot of inspiration and hopeful meaning, are the greatest songs I have ever listen.

12 Sep: Grass

فيلمى كه شايد حدود هفت هشت سال پيش ديدم و هميشه آرزوى ديدن دوبارش رو داشتم، فيلم مستند علف بوده. قبلا چند بار سعى كرده بودم اينترنت پيداش كنم ولى اسم فيلم رو اشتباها خاك مينوشتم، تا اينكه چند روز پيش بعد از كمى سمجى، نسخه كامل فيلم رو در يك وب سايت پيدا كردم.
موضوع فيلم در مورد طايفه اى از ايل بختياريه كه براى رسيدن به چراگاه از سردسير به گرمسير كوچ ميكنن.

حيدر خان رييس ايل و پسرش لطفى به همراه پنجاه هزار زن و مرد و بچه و نيم ميليون ! بز، اسب ، خر و گوسفند از رودخونه يخ بسته و كوههاى برفى زرد كوه به اميد چرا عبور ميكنن.

اولين نبرد فيلم با رودخونه سيل زده كارون شروع ميشه. نه پلى، نه قايقى. پنجاه هزار نفر همراه كلى دام. با قايقهايى كه از پوست بز همونجا درست ميكنن، حيوونها و كسانى كه نميتونن از آب رد بشن ،رو به اون ور رودخونه ميرسونن، بقيه هم به آب ميزنن. شش روز و شب بدون وقفه تا اينكه همه رد ميشن، هر چند كه رودخونه سهم خودشو از زندگى گرفته.

نبرد دوم گذشتن از كوه صعب العبور.

نبرد سوم گذشتن از رودخونه خروشان و يخ زده.


و نبرد آخر از خان هفتم رستم نفس گيرتر. گذشتن از كوه سراسر برف زرد كوه. يك تلاش بى پايان و خستگى ناپذير.

The English title is Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life and is a 1925! silent documentary from Merian C. Cooper, Ernest Schoedsack, and Marguerite Harrison.
More information can be seen in Wikipedia.
Here is the link for movie:

http://moviesdesk.com/movie/1019-Footloose.html

09 Sep- Season Four

There have been some conversation or arguments between me and some other people in different times and places about religion and particularly God. I personally not very interested in such arguments. But it is very interesting some people thinking it is their responsibility to guide others and show them the way of life. I am not talking about a specific group of people. Generally speaking I meant all who think are leaders and others are sheep. They might be religious people or even atheist. Either of these groups, who feel a great sense of responsibility, thinks others are sheep. If these “leaders” recognised one as a sheep, he makes a lot of effort to bring him in his own party. I know that a majority of people can not make their own way or make their own ideology. But I think they are simply follower, not sheep, who needs “help” to find their own way rather than push them in a specific way.

But the problem is when you think you should respect others as much as they deserve, regardless of their religion. Having this ideology, if you come across one of the leaders, they think you are a sheep and then their sense of responsibility flourishing.

The problem is they can not understand the difference between respect and accept. Because you don’t try to convince them they are wrong makes you sheep.

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Last Friday, Saturday and Sunday were my holiday. Form a couple of weeks ago I arranged to go London and Nottingham. Unexpectedly, on Friday someone called me from my workplace asking me to come to the work (which supposed to be my holiday). After a bit of arguments, I realised that they meant my holiday is interestingly on Sunday, Friday and Saturday. So it is on the Sunday of this week and Friday and Saturday of the following week after. The person in charge insisted that I must go to work. Trying to calm down, I asked for the reason of such a disorganized holiday; and explaining that I arranged everything to go London. Even I can cancel my arrangements, I can not accept this messy holiday, because it is not logical to spread 3 days off in 2 weeks. In my surprise, the person answered that there is no logic in our work place!! The most logical answer I could ever get. So I simply cancel part of my plan.

I guess it is logical to not try applying logic everywhere!!

3 Sep- Chrome and Animalism

Today after all Google Chrome (Beta) was released. In the first chance I downloaded it and tried to see what are the differences and features in Google browser. I showed it to my friends in the office but everyone just looked very reluctant to even see it. Asking the reason, everyone concerns about the privacy issues with Google. I remember the first concerns arose when Gmail was released. Their idea about advertising in Gmail dealt with going through the emails and ads related to email contents are showed in your page. They justified the problem with machine reading of emails and no human being deal with emails. However the machine can be adopted to be sensitive to some specific words. With Google Desktop for example, it can search among your entire files in the computer and send a full report to the Google Company, and it may be handed to some other organization or government for more investigation. There is no official proof for that, however. God knows what’s going on there. And the second reason they gave me was about the monopoly of the Google; Google Search engine, Google Desktop, BlogSpot, YouTube, even Firefox, and now another attempt to be fully integrated in the internet era. So the try to push you to use their own application, in Chrome for example it has a very good features to have Google application such as YouTube and Picasa.

I am asking what the other alternatives are; definitely not Microsoft. Microsoft is another monopoly as well. At least Google somehow supports GNU and free software. I asked my friends whether there is a better option!

Certainly I am not a big fan of Google since they banned some of their application such as Google Ads or Google talk in my country; or the case of Google censorship in China. If the Google is a private company it shouldn’t care about political relationship between US and other countries. But it seems that they need the governmental support. And in return they may follow the government’s policies.

Seems everyone is even more paranoid than me. This paranoid view creates a very competitive atmosphere; as it can be seen between Google and Microsoft now. So because of all news reveals in media from some years ago about monopoly of Microsoft, now everyone seems move to Google; which is a big support for them. Now there is a race between Google and Microsoft; As there was the same case between IBM and Microsoft years ago when finally Microsoft left the IBM in behind. In few years another company would be arose and success Google.

So the monopoly does create the competition in paradox with its characterization.

And now about the privacy; look around. Name some of the discoveries around you that make the life easier; Computers, internet, mobiles, satellites, electricity, energies, genetics. I don’t think many of these were actually made for sake of us as the ordinary people in the first step. However they were made against us. Nuclear Energy, where it came from? It was discovered form nuclear weapon to kill a nation. Internet, as far as I know it was developed for military applications, so as mobiles and satellites. Specifically, most of the advances in electronic field owe the military under the control of governments. Simply they exploit and abuse the technology for their own purpose and later on after they finished with that technologies or come up with a better one, they find other applications in daily life to leave them with us. Upgrading your computer, your mobile, buying Hi-tech TV, do we really need them? Certainly not, in this way we only support these companies to come up with new technologies for either military or other nothing-to-do-with-us technologies; so as the technologies to control your life and privacies.

All that I am saying is science is kind of religion having almost everyone support.

PS: The image is flag of animal farm from the wikipeida.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Farm