GrumpyOldFart
@GrumpyOldFart@expressional.social
I’m an elderly lefty, living in South West England who’s looking for a nice place in the fediverse where I can share/ learn/ politely disagree etc with others & (occasionally) vent my frustrations & concerns about the parlous state of the world that my grandkids are growing up in! When I’m not “doom scrolling” I enjoy gardening, bird watching, bread baking & being the best granddad I can be.
expressional.social
Thought-provokingly great article! Well worth a read!
“The Iran I Wasn’t Prepared to Meet: The seed that we carry with us. That's how propaganda works”
by Liz-Loh Taylor in Immersive Journalusm, Unflinching Stories on Substack
“This essay is not an attempt to prove that everything said about Iran is false. It is not a defence of every institution, every policy or every political leader. It is about what happens when a country refuses to resemble the version you have been taught.
I arrived believing I had already questioned the stories I had inherited.
I had travelled to Iran expecting to challenge Western narratives.
I had not expected to challenge my own.
By the time I left Iran, I understood that unlearning was not simply a matter of rejecting the stories imposed upon us. It also meant confronting the traces they had left behind”
https://open.substack.com/pub/lizlohtaylor/p/the-iran-i-wasnt-prepared-to-meet
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