Jordanians are looking for an achievemnt, an inspiration, and something to do at night.

How about this achievement?

http://www.alghad.jo/index.php?news=332581

It’s sad to see that people are spending a lot of time on such shows, but Jordanians are looking for an achievemnt, an inspiration, and something to do at night. These junk shows porivde this opportunity to them.

You should see American or Canadian Idol fans and to what length they go to to see their idols.

I think they just need to organize them better like Catalyst said that’s all.

- When seeing somehing like this I reassure myself that we are part of humanity! This happens everywhere, what obviously some might not like is the “7afartali” behaviour, ya3ni, running for no obvious reasons and many other things.

- What needs to be done? GAM should organise this! I mean , if they think it matters that they put a wide screen for eveyone to see their big fan, they should go few steps further and think about how people should enjoy the live show.

- Maybe people need to see alternatives? how things should run based on logic!

Salams again.

Have any of you asked anyone that went to the gathering why they were there? If not, how did you reach your conclusions?! It is sad that mnay still think we ought to stay sad and never celebrate anything! I have never watched such shows and I am not even a fan of sports, but what I saw in the celebration is jordanians from all roots becoming one hand and cheering for jordan not for a person..Maybe I am a bit overoptimistic, but why can’t we?

Next time, before someone jumps to psychologically analyse the nature of the crowd, I suggest you go around and ask the celebrators why they were there? And what it means for them..I simply hate baseless conclusions..And by the way, this how we used to be all along, we want something to be happy about, wether it is around sports, figures, days in history, etc… And we also come together when faced with dangers-remember the hotel bombings. It is no surprise that we are stereotyped as the most frowning people in the ME. Cut the people some slack and let them be happy for a minute!(Even though he lost)

It is sad because of the behavior of idle, irresponsible people with basically nothing better to do, gushing into the streets mindlessly, trashing their city. And the authorities are even sadder in their double standard of what public gatherings are allowed to rally for and what they are not. But this is not new, it is expected and is hardly surprising since we are aware that we are governed by myopia, fear and anesthesia.

It is telling of the desperate need of a community to identify with a hero, an idol, someone/anyone to rally support for. Since the beginning of humanity, people have had the inherent need for public gatherings to express themselves and collectively identify with something or someone, cheer for a hero, pledge support or protest in opposition. When generations grow up without the right to vent, are forced to suppress this need and are forbidden to freely, independently and responsibly express themselves and see/hear themselves in the public space, they will flock for whatever pathetic opportunity comes their way.

This gathering in Abdoun and the next day’s airport flocking is humanity’s natural instinct. Unfortunately the system encourages them to follow the wrong guiding star.

10 years from now, those people in the video posted will be writing something like this in another realm like freenet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenet

give them a break, let them enjoy their ipods,iphones and their waxed hair and bagy jeans

we are a nation of blind lead the blind, it will never change unless the blind leading us gets some kind of miracle surgery to restore its sight, and hopefully their foresight

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Love your blog btw.