
Ayoub
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Ayoub
@ErgodicEntropic
I don’t trust technology, but I trust that it is inevitable.




Thought about it quite long and the Muslim world’s real problem is that we keep analyzing foreign interference instead of asking why we’re so interferable. Everyone does the geopolitics. NATO destabilized Libya, CIA in Iran 53’, lsrael lobbies in Washington, etc. All true. All documented. But there’s a prior question nobody wants to sit with: Why is the internal cohesion so low that external actors can reliably find local partners? Every successful foreign operation in a Muslim-majority country required locals who chose to participate. The 2017 Gulf blockade wasn’t just American-Israeli, Emiratis and Saudis ran it. The post-Arab Spring counterrevolutions weren’t just Western, Gulf money especially those against the Muslim brotherhood funded them. You always need a local franchise. So the real analytical question is: what produces the franchise? And I think the honest answer points toward a specific civilizational failure the decoupling of political authority from moral legitimacy in Muslim governance. Once rulers stopped needing religious or popular legitimacy and could substitute foreign backing + oil revenue, the internal accountability structure collapsed. Foreign interference exploits it. And it’s not just the outputs that failed, it’s that Muslim political thought stopped producing leaders who feel answerable to anything beyond their own survival. Which means the geopolitics content, as good as it is, is always treating symptoms. The disease is interior.




I was reading Robin Blackburn's An Unfinished Revolution and just found out Karl Marx sent Abraham Lincoln a letter congratulating him on his reelection. History has insane crossover episodes.



Wilfrid Sellars on explorations in abstract cultures to keep pace with the inhuman velocity of modern science. "Everyone is an accelerationist".







من أعفن خلق الله




