We are all the same deep down, of course - just as brave, cowardly, smart, stupid, kind, unkind and so on. Trouble is, progress is difficult when always at war.Greatest I am wrote:So Eastern misogyny and all that the Eastern women are suffering is due to the West.Greta wrote:It's simply primitive behaviour from men who have chosen to embrace primitivism rather than adopt modernity - because it suited them to do so. They have been beaten, bruised, dominated, humiliated and ruined by western and Russian aggression and the men clearly decided that they can at empower themselves by treating women like garbage, just as they were treated like garbage by western invaders. Bullying tends to pass down the line.
The greater the conflict, the more extreme the fundamentalists become. Relatively moderate countries like Egypt and Turkey are starting to put the screws down on women now as the extremism of their neighbours builds.
Somehow I do not see that as true but perhaps that is why so many of them want to move here and so few Easterners want to fight to free their countries. Seems we are also making the Eastern men into cowards.
It's interesting to imagine what the Middle East and Islam would have become without the oil. Maybe they would have been far more moderate because there'd be less warfare to fire people up? Or maybe they still would have been involved in local conflict but not had as much impact on the world? I think of the middle east as being similar to Europeans in the centuries when they couldn't live peacefully together.
The question is whether struggling nations can modernise in time to avoid being decimated by environmental pressures, and associated resource-based warfare and associated disease and increased local violence. The current wave of refugees would appear to be the tip of the iceberg.
