All of us, every single man, woman, and child on the face of the Earth were born with the same unalienable rights; to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And, if the governments of the world can't get that through their thick skulls, then, regime change will be necessary.
Tuesday, August 05, 2025
Joe Bonamassa
Trigger Finger
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OT but great read:
"The Decolonial Delusion" When victimism becomes a worldview Decolonial ideology claims to be a framework for justice, but in practice, it offers something else: escape. It turns blame into worldview, grievance into identity, and self-examination into betrayal. It thrives in environments marked by dysfunction because it offers a ready-made explanation that demands nothing but a moral script and a permanent enemy.
Its intellectual roots lie in Marxist-Leninist thinking. Like Marx, it views history as a struggle between oppressors and oppressed. Like Lenin, it appoints a self-righteous vanguard to speak on behalf of the voiceless. But instead of class struggle, it deals in cultural grievance; instead of factories, it fixates on identity. Transplanted into the Middle East, the formula breaks down almost immediately.
First, it mistakes foreign fingerprints for the whole crime scene. The region’s core dysfunctions—nepotism, tribalism, and institutional stagnation—are not colonial remnants. They are locally manufactured and zealously preserved. Second, it imposes an ill-fitting colonial narrative on societies whose problems are largely self-inflicted. Third, it paralyzes reform: turning self-critique into betrayal and blame into political capital.
Another striking contradiction in the Arab world is this: societies that once exalted strength, pride, and honor now embrace a worldview built on fragility and grievance. A political culture shaped by stoicism and status has adopted a language that valorizes woundedness. The mismatch is glaring but almost never acknowledged.
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A culture that refuses to face itself cannot change. A politics built on deflection will eventually collapse. And a society that builds its identity on grievance will remain captive to it, forever demanding, never transforming. In the end, decolonial ideology is not a path forward. It is a delusion. https://www.zinebriboua.com/p/the-decolonial-delusion
1 comment:
OT but great read:
"The Decolonial Delusion"
When victimism becomes a worldview
Decolonial ideology claims to be a framework for justice, but in practice, it offers something else: escape. It turns blame into worldview, grievance into identity, and self-examination into betrayal. It thrives in environments marked by dysfunction because it offers a ready-made explanation that demands nothing but a moral script and a permanent enemy.
Its intellectual roots lie in Marxist-Leninist thinking. Like Marx, it views history as a struggle between oppressors and oppressed. Like Lenin, it appoints a self-righteous vanguard to speak on behalf of the voiceless. But instead of class struggle, it deals in cultural grievance; instead of factories, it fixates on identity. Transplanted into the Middle East, the formula breaks down almost immediately.
First, it mistakes foreign fingerprints for the whole crime scene. The region’s core dysfunctions—nepotism, tribalism, and institutional stagnation—are not colonial remnants. They are locally manufactured and zealously preserved. Second, it imposes an ill-fitting colonial narrative on societies whose problems are largely self-inflicted. Third, it paralyzes reform: turning self-critique into betrayal and blame into political capital.
Another striking contradiction in the Arab world is this: societies that once exalted strength, pride, and honor now embrace a worldview built on fragility and grievance. A political culture shaped by stoicism and status has adopted a language that valorizes woundedness. The mismatch is glaring but almost never acknowledged.
...
A culture that refuses to face itself cannot change. A politics built on deflection will eventually collapse. And a society that builds its identity on grievance will remain captive to it, forever demanding, never transforming. In the end, decolonial ideology is not a path forward. It is a delusion.
https://www.zinebriboua.com/p/the-decolonial-delusion
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