Traditional Algerian Berber Dress... before the world went dark

[zorgon]

And what you wrote is a lie, as the people didn't have freedom to be themselves.

I know many people from Iran that say it was better under the Shah

And "As long as you do what he says" goes for the USA too  Stay out of politics, mind your own business and you are free to do most everything

It's all relative  Your problem is you are to focused on narrow paths. You have to learn to follow the path of least resistance

People in Morocco today are wearing normal current clothing  Not everyone goes to work wearing TRADITIONAL Tribal  costumes

[petrus4]

I know many people from Iran that say it was better under the Shah

And "As long as you do what he says" goes for the USA too  Stay out of politics, mind your own business and you are free to do most everything

- Except ingest psychedelics.  Marijuana is slowly becoming legal, but it has been a long road, and it will take even longer for various other substances.

- Except build houses which deviate in any way from building codes.

- Except build any type of non-standard vehicle, other than the cars that are sold.

- Except build free energy devices, of any kind, even if there are sites around like J.L. Naudin's, which tell you how to do it.

- Except truly own land, because the title system means that you are always a tenant in common with the Crown.

- Except use anything at all as a currency, other than the worthless paper which has been dictated as "fiat currency."  I don't want gold either, because I'm not an idiot, and because I also know enough about magick to know why gold really became the reserve commodity in the first place.  It isn't for any of the reasons that most people think.

Very few people living in Five Eyes society have any idea of what freedom as a word genuinely means; and this is precisely by design.  The real ways in which we are truly not free...like the currency...are intended to be invisible.  We are supposed to think that the reason why things are the way they are, in that respect, is simply because there is no other way to do them.  So yes, the lie goes, of course we are free; but there's just no point trying anything else, because supposedly the way we do things is the only way that they possibly can be done.

People in Morocco today are wearing normal current clothing

"Normal, current," meaning the approved uniform of the culture which is leading us towards extinction, yes?

We can talk about more genuinely positive and justifiable forms of monoculture, if you like; such as that of Vedic India, for example.  Yet if we do so, you immediately notice that the values of Five Eyes culture are, to a large extent, diametrically opposed to the foundational ethics of that civilisation.  It is truthfully becoming a bad joke to compare the modern West even with the Hellenic culture that it claims as a predecessor, as well; unlike many of you, I have read translations of some of the primary Greek sources.  Our current mess is a very long way from anything that Aristotle or Socrates would have approved of.  Athens might well have been gaudy and degenerate, but her light was blinding in comparison with our current darkness.

Contemporary Anglo/American culture, particularly that spawned and enjoyed by the Millennials, is an omnicidal, infernal product of the pit.  It can not be legitimately morally justified or defended in any way, and no attempt should be made to do so.

[Shasta56]

The real traditional style is gorgeous.  I see a lot of women in my neck of the woods wearing hijabs, and a lot of them with very concealing attire.  I've seen one or two wearing the full burka.  Sometimes I see very young girls wearing hijabs.  It seems rather extreme to me.  But I used to belly dance at parties, so I may not have the most objective opinion.

Shasta

[ArMaP]

I know many people from Iran that say it was better under the Shah

Many people in Portugal said that were better under Salazar than in Democracy too, but those were the ones that thought that some ideas are dangerous and should be forbidden. In both situations, anyone trying to go against the regime would be arrested and tortured, or even killed.

It's all relative  Your problem is you are to focused on narrow paths. You have to learn to follow the path of least resistance

My problem is that I really lived in a dictatorship and witnessed the same situations as those of Iran during the Shah's regime.

People in Morocco today are wearing normal current clothing  Not everyone goes to work wearing TRADITIONAL Tribal  costumes

My question about it is: did the traditional costume change or are those different because they are for different occasions/wearers?