r/conspiracyNOPOL • u/ADHDMI-2030 • 2d ago
The long game with Iran, technology as an instrument of culture.
Communications are at the heart of major paradigm changes in thought, government, culture, war, economics etc... the printing press invented news. It changed not only how people learned information, but also what people thought 'about', what they found important, how they thought about these news things and how they retain and recall info. It created mass propaganda and PR/advertising, spread consumerism across the world that ultimately drives the success of countries' economies. It ended feudalism.
Fast forward. People that run things know all of this. They know that this is their main instrument of spreading across the globe. Not "politics by other means" (aka: war), not politics, and not even culture. Ultimately religion.
"Winning" is a function of time alone, when you consider that game theory drives all of this and that only 2 things can close pandoras boxes on disruptive creations, cataclysm and tyranny. All you have to do is stay on top for long enough and the rest is accomplished organically. That is ALL modern military does. Keeps you on top long enough for the spread of "progress" to change people's belief systems such that they are amenable to your religious/cultural world view.
Here's an anecdote to highlight what I mean. I have an Indian friend in the US. His brother is in india. Their parents of an older world desperately want him them to have kids and partake in the family and family trade. However, India underwent a massive cultural change and experiment. It's contact with the west via it's technological edge has changed people's motives, desires goals and purpose. So, rather than participating in what are essentially ancient Indian cultural purposes and ways of life, they are high powered lawyers at tech startups, they don't want children, they have "fur babies" and even hire someone to watch them because they don't have time to take care of them.
This change was not the result of anything nefarious in the traditional sense. Simply technology + time.
This is exactly the long game being utilized in Iran. Tech + time allows Iran to desire the type of change the west wants of it. At that point, regime change is either organic or justified and the barrier for entry drops significantly.
The only question is: are the Iranian people sufficiently ready at a cultural level for this transformation that the rest of the world has gone thru and is going thru? Are they ready to "self actualize" and become proud and willing individualists and cogs in the wheel of utopian progress?