The Caliphate (Kalifat)

[Leonardo17]

   I’m not going to romanticize the feudal world order that existed in the past. But it was still a real practical way of doing things that seemed to work in the reality of that time. I am going to refer you to a movie that points at how corrupt this feudal order was in the Medici Era in the 16th century:
 
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110963/
 

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   Also, the works of Machiavelli is a work that mirrors perfectly how these past monarchies were rotten from the inside and were anything but a perfect world order.
 
   Still, it was the reality of the time. At least on some level there was a given world order that was mainly theocratic and it has an appearance of functionality at least on some superficial level.
 
   The populist religious approaches of the 20th / 21th century are not really related to that. You can at the whole middle-east to see that. I don’t know if you are interested in soccer for instance. Yesterday there was a Soccer Club Director who went in the middle of the play to punch one of the referees in the face.
 
   As BBC pointed out, this is actually something that goes beyond ordinary hooliganism. The Turkish people are actually living in this constant state of paranoia. Half of the thing they hear is a lies. They are constantly being bombarded by a Russo-Iranian style fantastic propaganda. In fact half of the people are like MAGA supporters in the US. They live in a world that is similar to ours but radically different with all sorts of conspiracy theories and lies about real factual events.
 
   So many here believe that this referee “needed” to be punched in the face. The truth is: people don’t trust referees or club leaders or soccer players themselves anymore. There are conspiracy theories on that too.
 
https://www.yahoo.com/news/turkish-refer...11814.html
 

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   So that’s 21st century “theocracy”. As I said, it’s an abomination that is struggling to survive through fear, political pressure and propaganda.