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Delusion and Denial in the Middle East

By Troy Senik
Thursday, September 20 2012

It’s an analytical shortcoming of advanced, western societies to assume that progress is the default disposition of humanity. To a certain extent, that’s the intellectual byproduct of living in a democratic, capitalist nation. An American senior citizen alive today was born into a world where polio was still a threat, African-Americans were still subject to widespread segregation, and television was not yet invented. In his lifetime, he has seen more change – overwhelmingly to the good – than would have been accomplished over the course of centuries throughout most…

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