What's at stake

Do you see any substantial difference between the rationalizations of the present repressive direction in liberal democratic countries and this rationale?

Supreme Leader: Education has effective impacts on social norms

Me neither.

And you think American politicians, journalists, activists, and scholars are cynical in their arguments for power. Listen to this mouthful.

"Comparing the current educational system with that of pre-Islamic Revolution era, the Supreme Leader said that the education had focused on secular perceptions before the Islamic Revolution and was incompatible with the fundamental needs of the society.

'Notwithstanding the changes in Islamic and national perceptions of the Education Ministry, it still suffers from the outdated structures requiring radical changes to revitalize the education in conformity with the social progress.' Prior to the Supreme Leader's remarks, Minister of Education Mahmoud Farshidi presented a report on restructuring the body."

That is what is at stake during this political period. Whether liberal democracies are going to give cover to this kind of ugly illiberalism or not. Because it is fairly clear in these statements that these power-mongers take their cue from power-mongers in the West. And the question we all must ask ourselves is if we will give them the cover they want.

I, for one, will not.

Love,
Ben