6. Oil has become a curse rather than a blessing for the Arbs
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The Tragedy of Arbia
Unlike Japan, Taiwan, Israel, Singapore and many other countries who recognized early on that their scarce resources required them to turn their lack of material resources into technological strengths in order to become competitive in the world economy, the Arabs relied exclusively on the great sea of oil beneath their deserts as a substitute for intellect, creativity and entrepreneurship. It has now cost them their future and saddled the world with a parasitic and pathologically suicidal movement that has proven its capacity to destroy and its incapacity to create anything of substance to human civilization.
Arb societies are dysfunctional and have immersed themselves in a culture of denial. They emphasize struggle, quash competition and reject alternate approaches or ways of thinking. Arb governments live in a state of internal fear that avoids investigating their failures or acquainting themselves with or opening their societies to the cultures of others. As a result, their societies cannot hand down positive achievements to future generations unless they overcome their secretiveness, their isolation, and especially their compulsive need to blame others for their own failings.
The Arb mind is not open enough not to explain everything with a 'conspiracy theory'. The biggest problem with conspiracy theories is that they keep them not only from the truth, but also from confronting their faults and problems. This way of thinking relates any given problem to external elements, and thus does not lead to a rational policy to confront the problem.
Consequently, in Arb politics today, from Riyadh to Rabat, opponents are neither answered nor rebutted. They are discredited, imprisoned, exiled or murdered and with each disaster, defeat, or tragedy, it is always the Zionists, colonialists, or American imperialist conspiracies that are to blame.
For all the oil revenues that have flowed into the wealthier Arb countries, the overall state of the Arb world is appalling. It does not produce one single manufactured product of sufficient quality to sell on world markets. Arb productivity is the lowest in the world. Nowhere in the Arb world is there a single world-class university. Arb scientific achievement has degenerated into a few research programs in the fields of chemical and biological warfare. There is not one true democracy in the Arb world. No Arb State genuinely respects human rights. No Arb state hosts a responsible media. No Arb society fully respects the rights of women or minorities, and no Arb government has ever accepted public responsibility for its own shortcomings.
The Arb Middle East is the world's first entirely parasitic culture because it imitates poorly, consumes voraciously, spits hatred, exports death, and creates nothing.
Blame has become the opium of the Arbs, and the greatest blame for their failures is that directed at the United States and, of course, Israel. It is their power, not its uses, that enrages the Arbs who are trapped in their own self-made weakness.
The Arb world prefers to blame others, to sleepwalk through history as it were, and to cheer when tyrants and terrorists avenge them.
External conflict is the lifeblood of Arab society and conflict in the Arab world is not seen as a problem that requires a solution. The enemy of the Middle East is not the West so much as modernism and the humiliation that accrues when millions are nursed by fantasies, hypocrisies, and conspiracies to explain away their own failures. Quite simply, any society whose allegiance is to the tribe rather than to the nation, that does not believe in democracy enough to institute it, shuns female intellectual contributions, allows polygamy, insists on patriarchy, institutionalizes religious persecution, ignores family planning, expects endemic corruption, tolerates honor killings, sees no need to vote, and defines knowledge as mastery of the Quran...is deeply pathological.
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