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Education. And many of those joined. And as the movement grew, it was an authoritarian movement. You werent allowed to be in the Muslim Brotherhood and say publicly well this idea about x, its a limit loony toons. Youd be thrown out. Not only thrown out if you defied the authority structures of of this organization, but the memoirs that ive read. Social control mechanism of some religious groups, theres some peace churches in the United States that engage in shunning and so shunning is like people just stop talking, we were best friends and over at their house, and theyll just cut you off without a further by your lease. And not only cut you off, but they might cut off anybody insisting on remaybing in touch with remaining in touch with you. And the shunning is again, its a sign of a controlling kind of organization, and i would say in my definition, its a cultlike behavior. And the word cult is controversial in social science because some sociologists of religion consider it pa jortiv
The individual, checks and balances, freedom, liberty and so forth. As i said, trying to channel arab nationalism into the western camp into the cold war. Ive in looking at how the United States thought about this and the strategy they developed, ive come to the conclusion that there was a kind of map that the americans had that was above all of their all of their policy discussions. A kind of paradigm. I actually started thinking this way. I worked, if i could give you a personal anecdote, i worked in the white house in the george w. Bush administration. And i had a had come from academia, which i thought prepared me for policy work. And then i went to the white house and realized, actually, it prepared me for nothing. But one of the things that really surprised me was somebody who considered himself an expert. In the middle east. At the highest levels have simple ideas in their head. And i dont mean that as insult. Im not saying simplistic, they just have simple ideas. And they have