What the hell happened too these people.

[Anomalocaris]

http://izismile.com/2014/02/26/a_look_at..._pics.html
This is Iran during the 1960's
Seriously.... they go from
This


to fucking this....


This is a joke to progression this is like fucking steps no fucking leaps backwards if you ask me... just why.... just why the hell did they let this happen to themselves... :face-palm:

2 things:

1. The top picture pretty much represented only a small westernized elite in Tehran from 1960-1970s. The bottom picture, likely showing two university educated women, actually represent attitudes considerably more liberal than would have prevailed in vast majority of Iran outside Tehran even during the same 1960-1970s Period. So Iran didn't go from the top scene to the bottom scene. Rather the top scene was never more than a very thin veneer. In bulk they went form a situation where the top scene is a tiny minority, and the majority was much more conservative than the bottom scene, to where the bottom scene, where higher education is accessible to women in general, has become arguably reasonably representative of the country.

2. The attitude illustrated by the second picture Is still so much more liberal than what prevails in much of Sunni Arabia, even amongst our dearest allies in that region. Iran had a long continuous history of indigenous, illustrious, centralized, and highly refined civilization long before the arrival of the blight of Islam, and it shows. Much of Sunni Arabia didn't, and it too shows. The much maligned Iranian theocracy might be said to be equivalent in social outlook to something a little more enlightened than the more enlightened parts of 19th century europe. Much of the social outlook in much of Sunni Arabia is more like less enlightened parts of 13th century Europe. In Iran the Shiite theocracy has actually made progress towards modernity since 1979. Where else can you say this of any theocracy?

So the lesson is in Iran, real and deep seated progress is subtle, but is there, although it is hard to discern them through the lingering resentment from the hostage crisis, and high decibel, low IQ Israeli, neoconservatives and evengelical Christian propaganda.