Wonderland of Iran
The Wonderland of Iran Iran (Persia), one of the oldest cradles of civilizations and the cross road of many cultures may be looked upon as a wonderland. It has survived the most bloodthirsty destructive foreign invasions from Alexander of Macedonia, to Arabs, to the Mongolian Chengiz Kahn, to Colonialist and Neo-Colonialist and recently we can say Digital-Neo-Colonialist British and American interventions, as well as ruthless bloodthirsty native conquerors. Being born three years after the victory of Islamic Revolution in Iran and experiencing an enigmatic inner bewilderment since youth, the search for its possible roots has been one of my quests in life. True that living in the age of Postmodernism, the age of Twilight of not only Idols which Nietzsche foresaw in his times, but also of ideals, ideologies and utopias can explain a part of that bewilderment, but when I left my homeland to further my education, and thus met and befriended young people from other countries, it seemed that ours goes much deeper than theirs. So I began to wonder where does this difference come from? Coming from a non-traditional liberal family, I remembered how from the first day we began the school, as though unconsciously being...
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