Gofti aghab moonde, shahed az gheyb resid
nemooneye aghab moondegi mahz:
bavar kon man alaghe ee be tohin nadaram, aslan ghasdesh ro ham nadaram, amma in ke vaze ghodrate fekri ye mardom yek mamlekat bashe, hatta vajeye aghab moonde ham kameshe
Actually Soheil is right. What you fail to understand is a simple fact. That a nation can not exceed its inherent potentials. It can not achieve and live beyond those inherent potentials. The only "right" this nation has, is its right to exist and breath. This necessitates security which often in low capacity societies and surroundings, mean iron hand to keep internal order and to keep away external chaos.
Often such a society needs alot of placebo. Taking these away, will only result in bloodshed and anarchy.
I am sure you did not mean ridicule.
But I DO mean to ridicule. Not the proverbial general population and their beliefs (which is not interesting to me) but actually the so called "roshanfekra". Beyond the mere imitations and upclass social behavior what these have done?
Greeks and Romans (and to some extent even Arabs) developed their language to be capable of word and terminology (and by extension thought) generation. This is not the case with Iran.
Go to any Western universities and institutes worth their salt, walk in its departments and you will see plaques on the walls: Insulin was discovered here, First LED was made here, HF ALE was invented here, First Nuclear Reactor was invented here, so on and so forth.
Walk in our departments and all you will see are: xx year bloody protests were started here, MKO was initiated here, canteen riots started here, so on and so forth.
You see, this is the capacity of a nation. One is exploitative of its surrounding and the other is the exploited.
Accept that you do not have that capacity. Blaming it on that guy who believes in supernatural or in security of a nation/society, will not get you far.
Please accept that among these "roshanfekeran" there is not one, half like Oleg Losev who despite having no facilities and no support invented LED and did much ground breaking research in semiconductors, eventually dying of starvation. And that also under the most draconian political system in history of mankind the Soviet Union, under the iron hand of Stalin.
You are in electrical engineering. Tell me honestly, do you know anyone like Oleg Losev in entire Iran?
If you do not, then please stop blaming the poor guys. Blame roshanfekra for being dumb.