Time For DemocracyTech To Flourish For Iran
Just like there is no FinTech without finance, there is no DemocracyTech without democracy. Democracy is primary. The technology is secondary. If you are anti-war like I am, then do the peaceful things. But if you are doing nothing, then you are pro-war. You make war possible. You make war inevitable.
What is democracy? Democracy is the Iranian diaspora organizing marches, forming organizations, doing massive membership drives for those organizations, and forming an umbrella organization with a Common Minimum Program. That common minimum program is an interim government with an interim constitution with human rights and democracy, and a 12-month timeline to hold elections to a constituent assembly. You compete with each other during those elections. But right now, you unite to make those free and fair elections possible.
Smartphones are the ultimate DemocracyTech. Even when they have no internet access. Record all atrocities you see. Everyone has them. The ratio is 100:1. The regime is vastly outnumbered.
Imagine die-hard communists inside the USSR, and the Russians in exile who are also die-hard communists. That is the Iranian diaspora today. The diaspora refusing to attain spiritual clarity on Islam is the reason I am pessimistic of the chances. But at least agree on freedom of religion. You can be Muslim if you want to. But if you want to stop being Muslim, that is a choice you can make. And if you are not for that freedom of religion, then you are a supporter of this regime, you are a supporter of the tyranny.
This is not about Reza Pahlavi. This is not about what he will do or not do. This is about ordinary Iranians starting in the diaspora. Will they organize? Will they form organizations? Will they do massive membership drives? Will they form an umbrella organization?
I might be wrong, but I think we need about eight weeks. Eight weeks for the people to take to the streets. This time the difference will be should the Basij goons show up on motorbikes with their machine guns, they need to be taken out aerially. The right to peacefully protest has to be protected.
Once the floodgates open, this regime is gone. And then you can deal. You can deal to end the nuke program, curb the missile program, end the proxy program. And then lift the sanctions. I think Iran could see double digit economic growth rates within 12 months of the deal being reached.
Anthropic's Mythos is the ultimate DemocracyTech. I envisioned something like that in my novel that came out last year: The Great Subcontinent Uprising. Mythos can disable the regime completely.
And then everything can be back and working as soon as the regime is gone. Zero damage. Mythos is genius for democracy and liberation.
Call it LibertyTech.
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