Kevin Barrett thoughtfully contrasted Iran's intelligently cultivated civilization — against — the United States' imbecilic barbarity

© 2026 Peter Free

 

07 April 2026

 

 

Witnessed early during the United States' war-criminal attack on Iran

 

The contrast between Iran's intelligently cultivated foreign minister — Abbas  Araghachi — and the United States' literally lunatic leadership is a profoundly striking one.

 

 

This disparity in intelligence and genuine soul . . .

 

. . . led Kevin Barrett to observe that — here in excerpts:

 

 

Anyone who listens to Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, and compares his witty, reasonable, thoughtful, pertinent, reality-based comments to the mad drivel emanating from the likes of Trump and Hegseth and Netanayahu, can see that Iran is the civilized party to the current conflict, while the other side is led by drooling barbarian lunatics.

 

We Americans, who like to think of ourselves as the pinnacle of human civilizational achievement, have become stupid, evil, and massively uncivilized.

 

We are the equivalent of frenzied stone age cannibals screeching like rabid hyenas as we try to storm the gates of a highly cultured, literate people in hopes of ripping them to shreds and devouring their flesh.

 

Iran is, of all contemporary Western countries, almost uniquely civilized.

 

Students there study Plato and Aristotle and the series of footnotes that followed. They study classical theology and its emanations. They study the great mystics. They study the greatest examples of world literature.

 

And some of them study science . . . .

 

So if America represents nihilist barbarism in the current war, Iran’s leadership class is precisely the opposite:

 

Cultivated, articulate, reflective, spiritual, and carrying the heritage of not only Athens and Jerusalem, but also the treasures of Persian civilization and its elements that blend with East as well as West.

 

Iran’s leadership class is the polar opposite of the Epstein class.

 

They are the products of a lifetime of training in cultivating the higher self and restraining the lower one—rather than the other way around, as is so obviously the case with such vulgar, criminally-insane narcissist imbeciles as Trump and Hegseth, or such demonic monsters as Netanyahu.

 

© 2026 Kevin Barrett, The Great War for Civilization, Unz Review (05 April 2026)

 

 

The moral? — This is a conflict between Iran's thoughtful civilization . . .

 

. . . and the United States' reflexively immoral brand of nihilism.

 

Framed any other way, observers miss the key evolutionary point.

 

Ergo, my yesterday's blurb about acting in humanity's defense.