Iran, with seventy per cent of its population, thirty years and younger, is ripe for such an event. Young people, not yet ready to oppose presumed authority, as U.S. youth were not in beginning, are defying edicts of authority. This is a healthy, pre revolutionary development.

Iranian youth are exploring Internet and forming rock bands in basements and listening to music from other cultures. This is very much like what happened in England.

If it is spirit of music that is critical agent for change, Iranian youth should be introduced to early American Rock and Roll, to find and know that spirit. I would say first five years, from 1956 through 1960. Then include Blues music from course of its history, acoustic and electric, to make connection of musical expression of oppressed people and obvious connection to Rock and Roll. Can it be music of oppressed that leads to liberation in ways a foreign army never does?

If Iranian youth are encouraged to listen to early U.S. Rock and Blues, their social and cultural revolution can be much less violent than without this old music. Feel good music somehow creates better judgement for exuberant youth. They begin to weigh happiness they feel against consequences of political action and civil disobedience. It tempers need to act from hate, which blinds one to opportunities for progression.

What if it is Iranian youth who produce new Beatles that spread a happy revolution, not only throughout Middle East, but around world? Could they not rekindle that spirit for those of us who now only know it as a distant memory? Wouldn't it be wonderful if music of Iranian youth does for world what U.S. foreign policy fails to do in Iraq? The spirit of modern Rock music is not same. It does not generate hope in oppressed. It is a mistake to think all Rock music is same and will produce same result. I have not listened to that old Rock and Roll much since sixties. Maybe I should have. Maybe I will now.

Greed is a feeling for materialistic "things". Selfishness is a feeling for oneself.

In today's society, we have many incorrect ideas pounded into our heads by "parental voices" condemning and patronizing us into submission. When we begin to love ourselves and live for ourselves, we associate that feeling with negative connotation of selfishness.

Redefine meanings of your value words. Don't just accept a value word as an absolute because it came from someone else who you feel "has it all together". While they might have it all together in an area of their life that you see, they might be in turmoil in some other area of their life. Learn to redefine and trust your own values based on your own ability to reason.