09-13-2020, 09:48 AM
** 13-Sep-2020 World View: Brutality in Iran - Democide
I of course agree with this, except for singling out Iran. I've
developed a whole theory about when this happens -- in the decades
following an internal ethnic or religious generational crisis civil
war. The brutality towards political opponents carries on for decades
after the civil war ends, and that's exactly what's happening in Iran.
Besides Iran's Ali Hosseini Khamenei, country leaders following this
pattern today or recently include Paul Biya in Cameroon, Pierre
Nkurunziza in Burundi, Paul Kagame in Rwanda, Yoweri Museveni in
Uganda, Emmerson Mnangagwa / Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe, Joseph Kabila
in DRC, or, outside of Africa, Bashar al-Assad in Syria, Hun Sen in
Cambodia and Maithripala Sirisena in Sri Lanka.
What's happening in Iran is a very common pattern that occurs after a
generational crisis civil war. It's possible that the KKK is another
example of this, although I haven't yet done enough research to
support that, and it would be a variation of the pattern.
I've co-opted the word "democide" to describe this kind of behavior in
a country. Democide refers to mass slaughter of a country's citizens
by the leadership outside of war, and I've been surprised to learn
that more people are killed by democide than by war. I've co-opted
the word for Generational Dynamics to describe all the kinds of
abusive behavior such as you identified in Iran, and which occurs in
all countries after an internal generational crisis civil war.
(09-12-2020, 11:25 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: > The sort of people who believe that brutality by law enforcement
> promotes compliance might include people such as the leadership of
> a rotten system such as the monstrous regime in Iran, which
> executes people on confessions achieved with torture. (Iran did so
> recently, hanging a professional wrestler involved in a
> protest. Iranian politics is nothing but fear.
I of course agree with this, except for singling out Iran. I've
developed a whole theory about when this happens -- in the decades
following an internal ethnic or religious generational crisis civil
war. The brutality towards political opponents carries on for decades
after the civil war ends, and that's exactly what's happening in Iran.
Besides Iran's Ali Hosseini Khamenei, country leaders following this
pattern today or recently include Paul Biya in Cameroon, Pierre
Nkurunziza in Burundi, Paul Kagame in Rwanda, Yoweri Museveni in
Uganda, Emmerson Mnangagwa / Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe, Joseph Kabila
in DRC, or, outside of Africa, Bashar al-Assad in Syria, Hun Sen in
Cambodia and Maithripala Sirisena in Sri Lanka.
What's happening in Iran is a very common pattern that occurs after a
generational crisis civil war. It's possible that the KKK is another
example of this, although I haven't yet done enough research to
support that, and it would be a variation of the pattern.
I've co-opted the word "democide" to describe this kind of behavior in
a country. Democide refers to mass slaughter of a country's citizens
by the leadership outside of war, and I've been surprised to learn
that more people are killed by democide than by war. I've co-opted
the word for Generational Dynamics to describe all the kinds of
abusive behavior such as you identified in Iran, and which occurs in
all countries after an internal generational crisis civil war.
