12 You believe in “the good of democracy” for Iran as organized and presented by the Western Powers, which are currently “protecting civilians” in Libya. You would also believe in “the good of speaking only the truth” to members of Nazi Germany’s SS, if you lived in Holland in 1943 and had a Jewish family living in your home and they came to your home preaching the good of saying the truth as they asked you if you had seen any Jews.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RckSh5SM5Fo
11 You don’t question where the weapons and fundamentalists come from that are capable of defeating the Libyan Army or kill 300 Syrian Soldiers and Police? You have no idea the scale of expenses being paid out or by whom to wage these campaigns for so called democracy in the middle east and North Africa?
10 You form your opinions based on information you get from professors, the media, news papers, tv, radio, internet, books and use other peoples common sense in place of your own.
9 You believe the words and speeches given by leaders of countries which are serving their own national interests and pay no attention to their actions.
8 You think that if people are popularly elected they can’t be dictators and if they are unelected like kings, they have to be dictators.
7 You believe the West would like Freedom, Justice, Democracy for oil exporting countries upon which their entire economies rely, like Libya, Syria and Iran. And don’t realize they will not allow any system to stand that they can’t completely dominate.
6 You don’t believe that western powers use University Faculty, the Free Media and NGO’s as a foreign policy tools in presenting solutions that give them capability to dominate countries that influence the interests of their biggest multinational corporations.
5 You believe Iran can go from a true 11th century tyranny to a democratic government right away or at least within 20 years.
4 You believe people were not free to say what they wanted to, could not criticize the government and that the Shah used Savak to repress regular Iranians (for only expressing themselves).
3 You believe corruption was a major problem in Iran, when the Shah was King, or at least think it was close to the levels present in the USA, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Portugal or Greece.
2 You don’t acknowledge the stress/strains and dissatisfaction present in Iranian society before 1979 as a result of Iran being a 3rd world country in the process of going through a metamorphosis, with people living in cities amongst each other for the first time or experiencing the natural creation of large disparities/inequalities in wealth among people that accompanies industrialization and development. The Problem was the Shah.
1 You still believe Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi was a dictator, a megalomaniac, a despot, a tyrant and hold on to this view with religous conviction. Yet you don’t even know how to interpret the definitions of these words. (This helps you protect yourself from shame you would feel for past mistakes, it even allows you to point fingers at others today, unfortunately it allows you to pretend you have a solution for Iran’s troubles and it prevents you from correcting your own mistakes leading to greater ignorance)
Dictionary Definition: An-tellectuals are patsies that have created themselves by following everyday misinformation and the political interests of the most powerful forces of the day. Typically they can be cured with about 30 minutes of being understanding, however it is likely they will live their entire lives without even experiencing 5 minutes of being understanding, due to their defensive nature curing them is only for the brave and lucky.
