As they say in Iran, in order for the system to change, it would have to cut off the tree branch on which it has been sitting for more than 40 years. At the moment, it doesn’t seem possible.
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51
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