The future is here, it's just not evenly distributed
Following @jdmccafferty reminds me that in the sixteenth century, England was Iran.https://twitter.com/jdmccafferty/status/1305471192246235141 …
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Ironic that in the sixteenth century, Iran was England (of today).
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It's the opposite ! Today's Iran is the medieval England
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It wasn't much better in the 1950s https://study.com/academy/answer/what-happened-to-alan-turing-after-chemical-castration.html … In fact, Iran was much more progressive at the time.
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In fact *to this day*, Iran is more progressive than England on some issue, such as trans rights.pic.twitter.com/DvK0hMLDq8
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Both non-industrialised societies whose wealth is almost entirely about land.
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Is this true for most countries during the Middle Ages?
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Yeah no. More like Iran is 1950’s England:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing …
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20th century British empire was not much better.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jallianwala_Bagh_massacre …
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