The good professor knows about Iranian-US relationship history, but he listens to the wrong news. The trope about thousands of Iranians killed is fake news. The ones killed were Iranian civilians, true, but the murderers were foreign agents. The regime did not kill them. At least Aaron pushed back. Somehow the professor seems to know this, but why does he repeat Western propaganda? There is no doubt that Mossad, likely CIA, perhaps MI6 fostered these violent and deadly protests. He really underplays the importance of Color Revolution actors.
This is an unfortunate issue in our times. How to know what is true, when there are competing narratives and we are not in a possition to know for our selves what is true? Hannah Arendt spoke of :"getting everyone spinning unable to orientate".
Another issues is "Tribalism" as members of the Tribe seem to believe their tribes narratives, even when their tribes are promoting narratives that could not possibly be true. In 2026 the Academic Tribe is particularily vulnerable to this, as they have put their lives into constructing these narratives, so any revising of their views is not possible for them, as it would be to "admit that they might have been wrong" which would get them "Cancelled" by the tribe & loosing all their status, tenure, and income.
The good professor knows about Iranian-US relationship history, but he listens to the wrong news. The trope about thousands of Iranians killed is fake news. The ones killed were Iranian civilians, true, but the murderers were foreign agents. The regime did not kill them. At least Aaron pushed back. Somehow the professor seems to know this, but why does he repeat Western propaganda? There is no doubt that Mossad, likely CIA, perhaps MI6 fostered these violent and deadly protests. He really underplays the importance of Color Revolution actors.
This is an unfortunate issue in our times. How to know what is true, when there are competing narratives and we are not in a possition to know for our selves what is true? Hannah Arendt spoke of :"getting everyone spinning unable to orientate".
Another issues is "Tribalism" as members of the Tribe seem to believe their tribes narratives, even when their tribes are promoting narratives that could not possibly be true. In 2026 the Academic Tribe is particularily vulnerable to this, as they have put their lives into constructing these narratives, so any revising of their views is not possible for them, as it would be to "admit that they might have been wrong" which would get them "Cancelled" by the tribe & loosing all their status, tenure, and income.