[simne]

Greetings from Ukraine!

Must say, from practice of living on fast changing territory, it is very typical for people to hate all new, because sometimes new things appear too fast, that just their appear are pain.

This is not something supernatural. Even more - for people is natural when things are NOT change fast, even when all these new things are good. I'm sure, you will admit, from steam railroad there was many things very scary. And Iranians have right to say, that English and Americans opened this Pandora box.

[ben_w]

That's why I asked if it was a translation issue; "scary" is understandable and mild, "actual literal Satan" is much more severe.

[simne]

That is difference of "1st world" and other world.

In 1st world, changes are just literally changes, may be you retire later or your deposit will become smaller for few bucks.

But in "3rd world", life is extremely fragile. Most people does not have savings, and typically to not have any safety measures, just because constant under-financed. For example, in India, great disaster, when temperature falls below zero - every time this happen, people die.

So, people in 3rd world typically consider literal daemon everyone who do risky things or ask others to do risky things. People even could literally kick somebody for talking about risky things.

[ben_w]

You're over-estimating the average first-world experience; people on this forum are mostly much richer than the average of those who live in the same nations. People die in the UK from the heat and the cold, and yet religious beliefs are on the decline; the US is richer yet more religious than the UK.

Also, the theocratic leadership of Iran is not so fragile.

[simne]

> Also, the theocratic leadership of Iran is not so fragile

You're confusing leadership and economy. This is very significant difference - when economy suffer in first-world, whole world hear this from independent press, but when similar thing happen in countries like Iran, people are killed if try to open truth, because leadership pressures to open just info it think should be open and nothing more.

For example, when in North Korea happen great hunger, nobody outside country knows except CIA.

[simne]

And it is also important to notice - leadership consists of humans and humans could make mistakes, and in Democracy, exists feedback via human rights and via independent press, but in totalitarian countries both things does not exist, and also does not exist feedback, so, when totalitarian leadership make huge mistake, nobody could tell them and whole country become like uncontrolled auto, running into abyss on full speed, and very frequently this end with total fiasco.

[simne]

BTW people on this forum are mostly have much higher education, than the average of those who live in the same nations, and this is one obvious reason, why they are richer than average.

In countries like Iran, NORMAL higher education just does not exist. For example, I lived in USSR, where instead of Philosophy learned history of communists party. Imagine, what happen with other knowledge, which communists considered harmful - laws and rights, journalism, history, diplomacy - they just substituted whole parts of science with their surrogates.

Read. Use your rights to obtain real information, not surrogates. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juche