Iran: The tragedy of the failure of the Constitutional Revolution

From Anarchist Perspective

During my conversation tonight with a dear comrade, he said: “We've already had the tragedy once (the Constitutional Revolution itself), we've had the comedy ('78), now we've arrived at tragicomedy!” I was immediately reminded of the saying, “The first time is tragedy, the second is farce,” not to laugh at people's suffering, but to see the mechanism of the repetition of roles: each generation, with new words, re-enters a stage whose set remains the same.

TOTW: Determinism

Robert Sapolsky’s 2023 Detemined: A Science of Life Without Free Will is a recent major influence on me. Sapolsky, a neuroscientist, argues free will either does not exist or at best, exists at a lower rate than we like to believe. Sapolsky’s previous book, Behave states, “And [human behavior] is indeed a mess, a subject involving brain chemistry, hormones, sensory cues, prenatal environment, early experience, genes, both biological and cultural evolution, and ecological pressures, among other things.”
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