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Stanley Twigg's avatar

You diagnosed the problems very well. With the Spanish example, you showed how painfully short the turn to the right could be. However, the proposed solutions are inadequate. The key to any society is the dominant culture, its masters and gatekeepers. In Western countries, they can be found in media, in the middle and high managerial class, but the priests and temples are in the education and academic system. Its belief system is composed of a set of ideas. How do you fight an idea? The idea can be defeated only by another idea. How to do it? The same way they did it when they were victorious over an older set of ideas. They were victorious partly because the old ideas were suited for kings, nobility, knights, and peasants rather than for an ever-expanding world with explorers, merchants, manufacturers, and people who could read. We still live in the upgraded version of that world for the most part, so ideas hold. But, we also live in a world that is in transition; to what, we still don't know. Changes and contradictions are increasing daily, and the next set of changes will be profound because we can sense a perfect storm of pressures and stressors forming on the horizon. Only then we'll have a new world with a new dominant culture after the current transition is complete.

Iranian cities were mainly modern. The conservative parts of Iranian society were mullahs, the countryside, and the peasantry. Surely, the percentage of people living in cities has increased in the last 50 years in that country, so one can expect an increased potential for change.

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Gilgamech's avatar

I’m wondering why -

- Hungary was not discussed on the list of holdouts?

- And I think you should at least look at Russian ideology eg Dugin is a locus of resistance rather than not considering it. Like, evaluate it and then dismiss it on reasoned grounds. 😁

- Why is China not on the list of non-Rothschild central banks? That at least needs to be argued.

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