bozorgmehr
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Scythian jan, I've been hearing the same things for 36 years now... How long will we blame our problems on a war that started 34 years ago and ended more than a quarter century ago? How long will we need before this beautiful system begins to flourish? What extraordinary conditions have to be met before it starts producing satisfactory results? There comes a time when we have to sit down, turn down the slogans and take stock..
Others have come from far behind and passed us by while we're twiddling our thumbs, and people with connections do as they wish and anybody who objects gets imprisoned or knocked off. Where was Korea 36 years ago? Where was Turkey? What about the small island of Taiwan? These are all excuses.... Japan went from a backward agrarian society, composed of warring statelets, to an industrial powerhouse under the Meiji government that sunk the Russian navy in less than 38 years.... So let's not even go there.
To say that there are no perfect countries is a strawman argument. It's got nothing to do with what we're talking about here. But thanks for acknowledging that we have incompetent managers. The question is why? Through what mechanism have these incompetent managers been put in charge? What is the system that promotes this incompetence? What excuses can you bring for a system in which the oldest and by far the most popular football teams in the country are fiscally bankrupt, do not own a venue of their own, and cannot even pay their players? Does that also require a fusion of external high tech? Can that also be blamed on others? When will we stop making excuses?
No my friend, our problem is not a technological one. it's a cultural one. It's a mental one. New technology is nothing but the result of a way of thinking. A system that allows for innovation and new ideas. A system that allows for freedom. As long as we don't have that, we will always be 2 or 3 steps behind even small countries that do. Which is where we've been for a long time.
So we might take the long way and go layer by layer and go through a long process of trial and error until we strike upon the solution by accident. Or we can use our heads and think about this in a critical and dispassionate manner and do the right thing as soon as possible.
