[lbo-talk] Hamid Dabashi on Iran

[Miles Jackson]

Dennis Perrin wrote:
>
> I feel the same way about the States. Why should our ideas about 
> social justice and political intelligence be normative in a country 
> where the larger culture promotes inequality, aggression, historical 
> lying and economic theft? Aren't we pushing our values on people who 
> find them appalling?
>
> Dennis

As a general rule, social change is the result of a dedicated and 
well-organized minority imposing their values on society as a whole 
(e.g., the American Revolution).   The sooner we discard the myth that 
social arrangements are the democratic result of the consent of the 
majority, the better. 

Miles