Disagreement

Yesterday, I came across this quote that somehow reminds me of my people, my country, Iran. E.B. White once said "There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement."

For example, in the meantime, dissident groups have agreed that Ayatollahs are destroying this country and we should get rid of them, but these groups can't unite to finish the job. I don't want to go there, so we leave it at that for now and let's get back to our topic. I thought disagreement is the beginning of thought, and I think so the problem within Iranians and their objectives for Iran, is, they haven't disagreed appropriately, I mean with open mind and haven't dealt with its consequences. It has been lack of freedom of thought, speech and discussion which are the essential basics for developing thoughts out of disagreements and finally making logical agreements.

Lack of freedom of speech and thought, which is very appropriate for Iranians case, if a humankind doesn't have freedom of expression to express his personal thoughts and let people to judge and debate about it which gives him an opportunity to develop his thoughts more; his thoughts more likely would be undeveloped or less developed than one who had the opportunity to express his thoughts. This is the fruit of totalitarian environment.

This is the basic fundamental problem with us in Iran and as long as we haven't developed the ability to give others the opportunity to exercise their rights, we can't expect to disagree logically and fairly.