Bomb Them With iPhones

This is a poem I originally wrote on my iPhone on January 21st, 2015 at 7:50 AM. I thought it should have a life online. 

Last revised 12-31-17 1:46 PM

​Bomb Them With iPhones

Give them WiFi

Give them Netflix

Give them them porn

straight, gay and transgender

Give them the world of the internet

with no filter

Let them see extremists on both sides

and everything in between

Hire 10,000 of the world’s most talented translators and translate it all into the world’s most undeserved languages

Do audio versions of everything for the illiterate

Giant regimes fall because authoritarianism cannot block the water that is culture, media and entertainment.

We end the radicals with comfort and information not with deprivation.