Daneshmand
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I do remember everything my dear friend, and also I'd rather clarify that I'm actually suggesting nothing special here. I was just commenting on your legitimate concern of the deeply penetrated irationalism in Iranian community as a sample of a backward society.
Well and good. There is no contention in this. Important is the correct diagnosis, treatment regiments can differ. Only future will decide which treatment was more superior.
When populations are the matter of concern, you have to understand that you won't be able to amend anything unless you got a plan to solve everything. A nation in short of courage to question "somethings" wouldn't be able to question anything, including the logic behind the Sard & Garm mood of foods.
Top down approach does not work in promotion of science and reason. Only bottom to top progression helps in development of an advanced society. Therefore a plan is not needed. Rather we need personal convictions. In a country like Iran about five million personally invested individuals with convictions to break the anti-science taboos would more than suffice. I would be happy to see even five thousand for that matter. And the beauty of it all, is that, it need not for these individuals to agree with each other either. In fact they should NOT. They should chart and navigate their own convictions in their own personal capacities.
Once again have to mention that here, I do am not suggesting anything but commenting your very post, but with all due respects I hope that you be able to understand this part is just a cheap diversion of discussion simply called false reasoning in an argument.
Not at all. You are still failing to understand that it is not the process of elimination (eg. of religion) that brings about progress. Rather it is the process of creation and addition of complexity to our knowledge that brings about progress. West did not eliminate religion. West added huge amount of factual knowledge to our world without actually eliminating anything from past. Now it is your personal conviction to choose your path. Whether remaining religious and anti-science, or scientific and anti-religion or religious and science loving or the most bizarre of all; the case of that anti-religious who is also dumb in science, has been left to you as an individual.
West left it upto individuals to chart their personal ways. This is critical to progress. In Iran our biggest stumbling block is, we want to be part of a progressive wave which is wrong in my opinion. Since it causes us to think in terms of elimination in order to create a uniform progressive wave. The correct way is to learn to be an individual first without the need to ascribe any responsibility to anything or anyone else. And from there to work our way to challenge our Mamanamon and break the irrational taboos. No guts to challenge your Maman, no way you will be to progress; with or without religion. With or without West. With or without Naghdi.
You should really go and live with a normal Western family for a while. You will learn, how a normal average Western parent chisels an individual out of a child. By emphasizing, encouraging and even through measured punishments making that child to become an individual. In a culture like ours, the child is raised to be an obedient social automaton, conformist to his/her social circle. Whether that circle be religious or anti-religious. What is missing, is the individual conviction of that child which was murdered in his/her crib.
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