The saying...
The saying, "the pigeon of two towers" means these youths with their families-the firsthand human products of occidentosis. (pp. 117-119) Under the heading "Mechanosis" the distinguishing factors of a transitional period of society are discussed, which are : advance of science; transformation of technique, technology, and machine, and some semblance to Western type of democracy. In all cases these factors cause crises, which are in proportion to the speed of transformation of a society.
Iran sought to make up for a two-hundred-year lag within two decades, which naturally gave rise to social aberrations and psychological disturbances. In the West, mechanization of socioeconomic structure produced gangsters, brigands, killers, adventurers, and deportees at the social level, and militarism and fascism at the political level. Jalal holds that the Iranian society has its own rogues, who are sometimes exported to the West under imperial patronage.
He regards African and Asian countries raped and transgressed, and put to pressures, humiliations,…