The fundamentalists’ ideal view of Western civilization!
Despite the hatred they show for America and Europe as symbols of Western civilization, many fundamentalists have an exaggerated and idealized idea of the benefits of this civilization hidden in the back of their minds!
The proof of this claim is the type of criticism that this range of political forces in Iran bring to the problems of Western societies.
As soon as one of the western countries has a problem in the economic, political, cultural or security field, the fundamentalists shout with enthusiasm: “Now you see!” This is the promised paradise that they introduce!
But who imagines the West as a promised paradise, that by observing its problems, it is necessary for their mental image of those societies to collapse? In fact, most of the fundamentalists themselves and some of the left movements!
The fact is that many thinkers who defend enlightenment and democracy not only never consider western societies as the promised paradise, but they equate the dream of creating a promised paradise on earth with the desire to turn this world into hell!
That western societies suffer from many problems in various fields is only a strange discovery from the perspective of the fundamentalists of our country, but from the perspective of the planners and defenders of those societies, it is a completely normal, natural and obvious issue!
Has anyone claimed that in western societies, each and every person is civilized, born with human ethics, and prosperous and well-off in every way? But in non-western societies, the general public are wild, immoral and drowning in poverty and depravity, which fundamentalists want to prove their violation? Throughout America and Europe, like many other countries, thousands of crimes, disasters and destruction occur daily, and their media is full of this kind of news!
What Westerners are proud of is not the flawlessness of their societies, but the creation of a mechanism for the peaceful transfer of power, the possibility of free protest and criticism and questioning of the ruling institutions, the conflict of opinions and ideas at different levels of society, and the open and transparent presentation of problems and the discovery of methods. to fix them.
Of course, none of these is absolute and does not turn a society into a paradise, but compared to other governance alternatives, it is placed in a completely superior position!
Now, if currents really want to challenge the basis of Western civilization and societies out of honesty and good intentions, they should provide better and cheaper alternatives in the mentioned areas in order to find a real audience at the world level.
Otherwise, pointing fingers at the shortcomings of Western societies will not have the least effect in delegitimizing them, and more importantly, an alternative that negates the achievements of political, social and cultural pluralism will only strengthen the values of the West among its audience!
Based on this, the Chinese have nothing to offer as an alternative to the West in the field of culture and politics! A closed one-party system is certainly not what people today prefer to western democracy with all its flaws. Therefore, those fundamentalists who happily and proudly announce that the center of development has been transferred from the West to Asia – they mean China – are looking only at the production of material goods!
Simply increasing the production of material goods in a society does not make it a desirable life. If that were the case, all the efforts that are being made in all parts of the world, including among many fundamentalist families and leftist currents, to immigrate to America and Europe, would be a little directed at China!
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This post is written by heidari1422