Two very cute noses

As I write this, Israeli and US bombs are dropping around Iran on various targets of the Islamic regime. It’s literally been a long time coming, and my opinion is that I hope like hell the Iranian people get a chance to be liberated from the pre-medieval Islamists. Our own Immiserator caste can only dream of the excruciating torture that the mullahs have made Iran endure over the last 47 years.

What is fascinating about all the surrounding confusion is the political alignments in the West that have grown up around the issue of removing the mullahs from power in Iran. Fresh out of the recent pro-Palestinian protests, you would think the Left across the Western world would be in the streets this morning, supporting the Iranian people. The mullahs are decidedly anti-woman, anti-free speech, and basically anti-anything resembling a free and decent society, by anyone’s standards. They want nuclear weapons, not just for some security chit, but because they want to use them against Israel. Various members of the Iranian elite have said as much over the last four decades.

Instead, what we get are a few, tepid demonstrations for the pro-Islamists around the globe. Seattle is having a manufactured protest this morning at Pike Place market. I’m sure more will be extant. But the mullahs are so repugnant an ally, not even the Left wants to smear too much of that defecation on themselves.

Here’s the point. At some level, political labels don’t stick very well to the Iranian situation. If it were women’s rights, or civilian deaths, the Left should be lining up with the general population of Iran. They aren’t, and they won’t. What this should tell us is that our widespread models of Left and Right are just not up to the task of explaining what is going on.

But if we dip our toes just a little into the memetic pool of understanding, looking at the situation from a v-Meme perspective, the reason the Left has even passing sympathy for the mullahs becomes apparent. The Islamic Revolution cohort are totalitarian globalists. They are not pro-Iranian, other than quite liking the fact that Iran is not some backwater of the Global South. It’s a fully equipped modern state, with universities, deep history, and beach houses on the Caspian Sea. If you’re going to hang out and wait for End Times, it beats the hell out of living in some sand-swept backwater, with a herd of camels at your doorstep. We don’t think of Iran like this — but it is one of the most beautiful countries in the region.

And that makes it a great place to wait. And did I forget to mention all that revenue from sales of oil? With superpower allies?

Some countries in the region have managed the delicate secular balance of being a Muslim nation, while maintaining a cultural identity. Tajikistan is an imperfect one. They banned the burqa, the Hijab, banned Prayer (Namaz) at public places, and the call to prayer (Azan) on loudspeaker, as well as child marriage. You can be a Muslim mostly in private, but you cannot force others in public to follow your prescriptions. The link above is a Tajik wedding dance.

The fact of the matter is the regime in Iran are actual globalists. They want a homogeneous Islamic State spread around the world. They don’t just want Iran. They want the whole enchilada. And the civilizational process necessary for them to get there is hardly any different from the globalists in the EU, or the declining caste in Washington, D.C. Globalists demand an elite. For the mullahs, it’s them. For the EU, it’s the gang in Brussels. And for the U.S., it’s more a country-wide movement, devoid of geography, but full of Woke. All three groups demand profound censorship. All three groups use immiseration as a tool to create a depressed population. All three groups are spearheaded by detached, bubbled up cohorts that believe in smashing dissent, and can’t understand why anyone would disagree with them. And if you do? It’s execution time. Our own Lefties are already plotting revenge, publicly, if and when they regain power. Susan Rice’s recent statement combines the new domestic D talking points with a deep desire for chaos.

Safe in their mountain kingdom, the Iranian mullahs don’t need to import more people in order to rig democratic processes for their agenda. That’s obviously not true in Europe and the U.S. The locals are waking up to the fact that they’re on the globalist’s menus. In the U.S., Biden and his Open Borders plan inflated the population of the U.S. by close to 10% to get those voting margins necessary for Leftie hegemony. Europe is in the process, but only after scandal after horrific scandal of immigrants mass-raping their women and children. The result of all this is that for the efforts toward globalization, which is really a centralization and homogenization operation intended to create the optimal psychosocial dynamics for a depressed population, ruled by some self-selected authoritarian overlords, knocks down the notion of culturally diverse nation-states. What it’s working to replace is any sense of agency and independently generated relationships inside those nations.

The problem is that once you do that — once you manage to functionally destroy Western civilization, either through Woke, or Islam, is you have a non-functional economic system. Modern economies are built on some version of trust. And if you cannot trust your neighbor, especially because they come from a low-trust culture, whose language nor mores you do not share, the best you’re going to end up with is a depressed polis, and tribal dynamics. If you don’t believe, look at all the scandals continuing to pour out of Minnesota. Minnesota is the bleak window into the future the Leftists envision as their response to the global Islamic state. And make no mistake — they are both competing for the same share of the memetic pie.

Into all this is the inevitable push-back from the nationalists. Trump in the US, Viktor Orban in Hungary, AfD in Germany, and one of my favorites, Eva Vlardingbroek in the Netherlands, are the vanguard for reclaiming their country from the globalists. As I’ve said before, they are champions in an orderly Great Decentralization, a coming-down from the dysfunctional utopian dreams of the globalists. For good or ill, our populations are simply not evolved enough for an unfettered, no boundaries global society. What we’re seeing now, with the endless flood of economic refugees from the Global South, Mexico and South Asia, is an uneven, but mostly negative patchwork of integration into already advanced cultures in the West.

The result of this is that informal governmental mechanisms, otherwise known as gangs and cartels, are occupying swaths of the geographic landscape in the Western nations. They operate in collusion with ostensibly legitimate governments in these places. But in order for them to exist, nominal, orderly services seem to not be able to. Looking at the Pacific Palisades neighborhood in L.A., still burned to the ground after two years, is the sign that the memetic pull from both the lack of sophistication and evolution, as well as cold, hard cash from illegal operations that elects incompetent politicians, is downward. These areas cannot recover, because there just aren’t enough smarts to restore even prime real estate.

If it reminds me of anything in my travels, it brings back memories of my trip to Greece. Greece is a nation with a stellar history — the birthplace of Western civilization. And the native people know it. But the streets suck, nothing really works very well, and the people, with their head cast down because they know of the greatness of their forebears, live in a combination of self-conscious, self-aware shame in all of it. How is it to truly know decline? Be the civilization that conquered the known world. And then has no suitable public sanitary facilities.

So what exactly is going on in Iran? The public uprising is really equivalent to all the movements around the world as an attempt for the people there to revive agency and move on the upward path of all civilizations. It is absolutely a re-nationalization effort. It is a populist movement. It is a freedom-of-information movement. It is a women’s liberation movement. And yes — it is revanchist, in that the temporary goal is to go back to Iranian society pre-1979. Witness the appearance of the Shah Pahlavi’s son as the figurehead.

Because where they are trapped now is in an Islamic globalist hell. Which at this point in time, leads back to tyranny. That train is never late. And make no mistake — the Western Left intends the same for us. Information control, 15 minute cities, driving restrictions through radical taxation, deprivation of relational freedom, and endless pointless rituals intended to make us all miserable — all are what’s on the menu. Think about that the next time you do a land acknowledgement.

You wonder what the Lefties have in common with the mullahs and radical Islam? Here’s hoping you now have your answer.