This is an extract from 'Occidentosis'; the best known and most influential work of the Iranian intellectual and writer, Jalal Al-e Ahmad.
In a sense, it is the record of a personal journey to a new understanding of Iranian society and history, but since it aroused a widespread and enthusiastic response (to the degree that the coined word of its title permanently entered the Persian language), it may also be regarded as a document of the ideological ferment that ultimately led to
revolution.