The art of forwarding

? A new tool also requires a new culture. For a country like Iran, which is still in the stage of transition from tradition to modernity, the need to define and create a new culture in accordance with new tools is felt more than ever.

? One of the new tools is Telegram, which has become an epidemic in Iran within a short period of time, but a culture corresponding to it has not been created.

? Some people think that it is “high art” if every article, photo and video is sent to them by others, they send it to others. These loved ones have recognized the mere act of “forwarding” as a “high art”.

? I had joined a group whose members were all old friends, and unfortunately three or four of these friends were “professional forwarders”. So that every hour about ten to fifteen miscellaneous posts from “Areh, Ure, and Shamsi Kore” were forwarded to my telegram, which I personally was not interested in receiving.

? The first reaction that came to my mind to get rid of all these forwarded posts on “Der Petey” was to leave the group. Something that is taught to us from childhood everywhere in an underdeveloped country. But now I had learned that erasing the face of the problem and “making” the citizen’s work is “undeveloped” and on the other hand, I wanted to stay in that group and enjoy meeting with old friends. So I decided to be “developed”. It means to stay and correct, not to go and run away.

? . Have you ever thought that if “New York” had citizens who preferred to run away when facing any problem, now that big and developed city would also be like a rural furnace?

? I sincerely shared the problem with my friends. It was hard to share the problem, because no doubt the group’s “professional forwarders” would be offended – which they were. Even one of them left the group! But finally, most of the friends agreed and were happy and fully welcomed. Now we had a clean group where only topics of common interest were discussed. That is what we became a group for.

? There is nothing wrong, if we think the content of a group is interesting, we give the address of that group to other friends so that if they like it, they can go to that group and use its content. But to Hazrat Abbas, forwarding each and every post of one group to another group is “not art”.

1. About 30-40 years ago when I was a child, from time to time a piece of paper was thrown into the house through the door with a text similar to this:

“Whoever reads this paper, write the following prayer ten times and give it to ten people you know. Anyone who did this would have their wish fulfilled and anyone who didn’t would have an accident and die!

And then, in the continuation of the article, a strange Arabic prayer was given.

1. I – and people like me – unaware of everything, for fear that we might have an accident and die or some other unseen calamity would happen to us, we used to copy the text and distribute it to others and then sit and wait until To fulfill our long and distant dreams – which was of course a futile expectation.
2. Recently, an article was sent to me by a friend in Telegram, which reminded me of the same papers from thirty to forty years ago, albeit with a modern form and content. In a telegram post, in the words of an expert “who did not want his name to be revealed!” Regarding the contamination of all kinds of processed food, by a factory that “didn’t want to mention its name!” It was warned and at the end everyone was asked to share this article with all their friends that it has “hereafter reward” and not sharing it will cause “losses in this world and hereafter”!
3. It is clear that this article – like the same writings of Aunt Zanaki forty years ago – was written only for “forwarding” and has no other value. It neither gives correct information nor exposes corruption. The fact that processed foods (even if they are produced in the most hygienic way possible) is still not recommended. The only concern of the author of the article is to “forward” and “get forwarded” more posts.
4. What is a place for reflection, why does someone, knowing all these issues, still fall into the writer’s trap and forward the article? Why are there still people who say to themselves, “This article may not be true, and if I do not forward it, I have committed a sin and will be punished by God?” … and I must say that the number of people who think this is not small.
5. In the experiments conducted by Baumeester and his colleagues in 2008, it was found that those who do not have free will, do all or most of their work based on a kind of “determinism” and belief in supernatural forces. And in this way, they put the responsibility of their actions on others (supernatural forces) so that they don’t take responsibility themselves. In the eyes of these people, human free will is crushed under the heavy load of supernatural will and nothing remains of it. Therefore, instead of having them “from themselves”, they get all their wishes from supernatural forces, and they also blame the responsibility of their actions on those same forces.
6. When faced with “forwarders”, such people feel that forwarding the content that has reached them is a divine duty that if they disobey it, they will be punished, and in order to free themselves from the responsibility of thinking, they They release the speed of their “conscience” and forward the piece of content sent to them. The forwarders also know this type of “deterministic” spirit (which is not only in Iran and all the people of the world face it more or less) write their content and leave it in the hands of these people.
7. The important point of Baumeister’s research (Roy F Baumeister) here was that the experiments showed that when people were taught the absence of free will, they did more illegal and immoral things (such as stealing, lying and cheating). Zed (this showed how a person with a high degree of belief in the beyond at a time in his life who has given control of his thoughts and actions to imaginary and transcendental wills can easily commit theft, lying, fraud, and crime. ). Baumeister showed that the more people believe in free will, because they consider themselves responsible and decision-makers about their world and their actions, the less they commit wrongdoing.