{"id":13007671,"date":"2007-09-28T16:02:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T16:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/2007\/09\/28\/Mike-the-Mad-Biologist\/"},"modified":"2007-11-25T23:56:30","modified_gmt":"2007-11-25T23:56:30","slug":"Mike-the-Mad-Biologist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/?p=13007671","title":{"rendered":"Mike the Mad Biologist"},"content":{"rendered":"
Stumbleupon Review<\/a> of :
\n\thttp:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/mikethemadbiologist\/2007\/09\/this_is_what_courage_really_lo.php<\/a><\/a>\n<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Myanmar : This is What Courage Really Looks Like.<\/b><\/p>\n

From the page: “I don’t have much to add about the situation in Myanmar; maha has some<\/a> good<\/a> posts<\/a> about it, along with AmericaBlog<\/a>. But the picture to the left is a study in contrasts.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\tThe foreground speaks for itself, but if you look at the upper left background, you’ll see an advertisement for the movie 300<\/i>. To my mind, 300<\/i> represents a juvenile, fantastical crusade for freedom from dictatorship<\/a>. But unlike 300<\/i>, most struggles against dictatorships and juntas during the last century have not involved smashing things, bellowing, and rippling abdominals, but ordinary people, who simply possess a dreadful hope that, despite all the murderous evidence to the contrary, human decency and the justice of which we can conceive will prevail over unethically-wielded might. Too often, this has not been the case, and there has been a dreadful and bloody price.<\/p>\n

Yet the people of Myanmar still march, only armed with the conviction that their government is unjust and that it can be changed through non-violent means. They are awe-inspiring and humbling, not only for their courage, but for their steadfast commitment to dignity in the face of in indignity.<\/b><\/p>\n

More:<\/p>\n