Authentic Syrian Hallucination

ok, enough with this bull shit about how I really don’t care, how I’m really not afraid and how I think that a single moment of true freedom is worth whatever problems it’ll get me into.

So .. I woke up as Damascene George. Oh my god, I need to get used to my new name!

- So, what would you be blogging about, soccer?
naaa, I’m too much of a lazy ass to play sports, and I hate discussing hings I ignore.

- So what is it, politics, sociology, religion, economics, activism .. just put yourself in a category asshole!
First of all, you should know that I hate to be categorized – this is making me think again about my name. Second of all, I’m gonna be talking about all these subjects, do you mind?

- So your telling me your an expert in .. what .. all those subjects? how many PhD’s do you have already?
well, I haven’t graduated yet. But I’m telling you I’m from Syria.

- As if you were all born super-multi-field-thinkers .. funny
No we’re not. But we’re Syrians. Even the way we dance is affected by the social, political, religious and economical conditions we’re expected to survive daily! So when we discuss these issues, we’re not the experts, we’re the subjects of their experiments!

- aha. And you think your blog is gonna make any difference?
Not really. I’m convinced that “our” case is hopeless, it’s just more complicated than we can handle.

- What kind of idiot would put “our” in quotes?
Who are “we” after all. I only know that “I” exist, and I’m physicly separated from everybody else. “I” am the only group. Any other notion of a group is arguable and weakly defined.

- So why are you writing in English (your English sucks by the way).
hmmm, I know this is one of the hot topics on the Syrian blogsphere. I simply don’t have an Arabic keyboard right now, I have no ideological beliefs with or against blogging in Arabic, I swear. Oh, and my English sucks maybe, cause nobody taught me how to write in English. In fact, nobody even taught me how to write an decent post (or essay or anything) in Arabic. Unless you count “mawadi3 al ta3bir al adabiyeh” in high school. No Syrian ministry or governmental department or company have ever helped me seriously learn any language (Except syronix).

- Are you drunk buddy?
No I’m buzzed.