All the bad things...

I was searching the web for a convenient topic to start with, when I found something about the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian war. This site contains all the major news from the site of the Electronic Intifada, a non-profit, “independent online publication which covers the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a Palestinian perspective” – according to Wikipedia.

Anyway, what caught my attention is that a journalist of theirs is missing. To be more accurate, Philip Rizk (picture)  was kidnapped. He was taking part in a solidarity march for the people of Gaza. He was taken by Egyptian security agents, and no one saw him since then. This happened on 6th February. Here is the article.

The question is, why did this happen? What was Rizk doing that made him a target for the Egyptian authorities? And why did the Egyptians care? What do you think? From a journalistic point of view, isn’t this a bit too much? Is this the xxi. century for you?

Welcome to the Future

I just finished reading Aldous Huxley’s incredible book, the Brave New World. If you haven’t read it yet, then do it ASAP. On the back of the cover it says: “The greatest novel of the future ever written.” I can only agree with that. Anyway, after I read it, it made me wonder. No, not about what the future will be. I mean I have read Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke (planning to read Orwell’s 1984 next); I have seen countless other sci-fi movies and all types of series as well. No, this blog is still not about the future. It is in the future. The book made me realize that the future is actually right now. This is the magical 21st century, so to say, the beginning of the future that was feared by the great intellectuals of the previous centuries (all right, this might be a little exaggeration). This is our Brave New World and we are living in it. But have you ever looked around? Have you ever noticed what world this is what most people claim to be the future?