Water, sand or stone 2

The inner enemy is our own favourite ideas. We keep them as holograms in our mind. Often they are very fragile constructs, built on dreams, wishes, partial memories, pieces of observations and knowledge...
We have a strong instinct to defend them while attacked. They might be extremely vulnerable. When they are challenged it hurts, as if they had nerves.
Sometimes our inner holograms are related to external facts in complicated ways. Ownership and authority can be linked. It makes things more complicated.
Actions and ideas of other people can also influence our holograms, sometimes making them stronger, sometimes weakening them.
If we have very strong holograms we are daring and can do a lot. That is often considered positive.
Are realistic holograms to be preferred? Yes, what is realistic? The knowledge of our limitations or of our potential?

Fall and rise 2

If we have mind based analysis, we can see the essential forces in politics more clear than if we have a standard materially based analysis.
In Soviet Union the state ideology, communism, was materialistic. It could not stand the meeting with free minds, even if the state struggled very brutally to limit the freedom of the citizens.
In Iran the state ideology is based on Islam, which is a religion and not a materialistic philosophy. What about the meeting between Islam and free minds?
First of all, the present protests are not against Islam. The question is about the outcome of the elections. Which of the two main Islamic candidates for president were actually elected?
The answer should be easy to give. All that is needed is openness, transparency and honesty. That is what free minds want. Give the facts.
On the international scene, Iran will win in authority if the present problems are solved in way acceptable for free minds.
Iran is facing an interesting period. It is an influential part in an influential part of the world. Iran should meet the upcoming challenges with a united population. That would be nice, anyway.
In the short run, a country like Israel might be amused by problems in Iran, but in the long run, the security of Israel might be endangered by a weak government trying to pacify its population by external hostility.