We have now altogether forgotten the sense of competition. It has been substituted by the sense of helplessness, the sense of servitude. We no longer see ourselves as deserving any right... Nay, even if we seek to justify an aspect of our this- or otherworldly affairs we evaluate them on [Westerners’] principles, following the injunction of their advisers and counselors. We study like them; take census like them; do research like them. But even that is all right, because science has assumed a kind of universal methodology... But the interesting thing is that we get married like the Westerners do; imitate liberalism like they do; evaluate the world, dress, and write like they do. As if our own principles have all been superseded... Yes, now from those two old rivals finally one has ended up cleaning after the circus; the other one runs the show. And what a show! A pornographic scandal, stupefying, stultifying obscenity. So that they can plunder the oil.
Jalal Ale Ahmad, Westoxication