It seems like I’ve been living in some type of Persian Hotel for the past month – what with all-of-the-family and friends visiting us this past August.
Normally – I view guests like fish – that they begin to stink after 3 days – but Giti’s friends and relatives have tended to add to, and expand, my world view – which got me pondering why the Persian folk (‘Iranian’ sounds terrible – particularly with-all-of-the-political nonsense going on these days) don’t piss-me-off like just about every other houseguest we have, whether they be German, American, South African, or, whatever!
The Persian Empire is historically acknowledged as the first great empire, and, one of the largest and most enduring (we often wonder if this was the case because the Persians essentially assimilated those nations and cultures they ‘conquered’; instead of enslaving them). Whatever the reason, Persians are not very pleased with the film “300,” and, find it a very incorrect and insulting depiction of Persians. I was pretty sure that the various units trying to remove the Greeks from the pass – didn’t have such exotic costuming, and, a Persian is always quick to remind you that the Greeks kept slaves!
So the Persian mantra is: for a Persian Party to be properly concluded (and they usually get going at about 10:00pm and go on till whenever) that an abundance of Brit bashing must occur before the guests depart to their homes – as “Iranians” feel that the Brits (with some American assistance) really fucked up their country (more than once).
Don’t get me wrong – I am not sleeping with the enemy – and regularly tell Giti that she should prepare herself for the eventual American invasion of Iran (though the Russians may have put a crimp in those particular plans for the time being). What I am suggesting, however, is that if-and-when the U.S. invades Iran – that we do a better job of occupying them than we did in Iraq and Vietnam.
As the oldest empire (that we know of) these Iranian folk (grrrr…it just doesn’t sound right, does it?) not only brought the concept of democracy to the world – but their women began perfecting the art of “beauty” long before any other women started learning how to entice the male-of-the-species: that has to count for something doesn’t it? I mean, we’re not going to bomb ancient structures to smithereens again, are we? Or allow the looting of ancient artifacts and treasures, are we?? Or kill a potential Miss Universe???
As my readers know, I’ve been reading Manley P. Hall’s, The Secret Teachings of All Ages, in which Manly P. suggests that it was the Zoroastrians who first began worshipping one god (except for a mini-blip by some ancient Egyptian pharaoh [and here I went and erroneously blamed the Jews for getting this one god thang started {and I gather that the Jews initially believed in goddess as well – but chucked her in favor of Yaweh}]).
So the Persians have that going in their favor as well – because we all want to believe in one, true god, right?
Thus, I’m hoping that the powers that be think a few times before destroying the first, great empire – replete in human history; the development of democracy in civilization; coming up with an idealized feminine beauty; and, suggesting the existence of one god (that I guess everyone believes in quite differently).
Sure their president is crazy (aren’t all leaders though?), and I know they haven’t let the American girl with cancer go (why would she travel there with cancer in-the-first-place?) – but they tried hard to be our friends for a long time, and, they helped make Ollie North famous.