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Abbas Amanat

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1407 total appearances

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#334 โ€“ Abbas Amanat: Iran Protests, Mahsa Amini, History, CIA & Nuclear Weapons

But you would see that the older generation don't, so far at least, don't take part

Lex Fridman Podcast
#334 โ€“ Abbas Amanat: Iran Protests, Mahsa Amini, History, CIA & Nuclear Weapons

as extensively as one might imagine.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#334 โ€“ Abbas Amanat: Iran Protests, Mahsa Amini, History, CIA & Nuclear Weapons

And this is variety of reasons.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#334 โ€“ Abbas Amanat: Iran Protests, Mahsa Amini, History, CIA & Nuclear Weapons

Perhaps we can get to that later on, if you like.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#334 โ€“ Abbas Amanat: Iran Protests, Mahsa Amini, History, CIA & Nuclear Weapons

But as far as this younger generation, they don't care.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#334 โ€“ Abbas Amanat: Iran Protests, Mahsa Amini, History, CIA & Nuclear Weapons

They don't listen even as much to their parents as the older generations did.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#334 โ€“ Abbas Amanat: Iran Protests, Mahsa Amini, History, CIA & Nuclear Weapons

Or one might say even the nature of the relationship between the parents and the youth has changed.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#334 โ€“ Abbas Amanat: Iran Protests, Mahsa Amini, History, CIA & Nuclear Weapons

It's not the concept of, again, a patriarchy that a father or even a mother would tell the daughter or son what to do.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#334 โ€“ Abbas Amanat: Iran Protests, Mahsa Amini, History, CIA & Nuclear Weapons

Basically, they have to negotiate something.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#334 โ€“ Abbas Amanat: Iran Protests, Mahsa Amini, History, CIA & Nuclear Weapons

Precisely, that's what it is.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#334 โ€“ Abbas Amanat: Iran Protests, Mahsa Amini, History, CIA & Nuclear Weapons

And they are surprisingly aware

Lex Fridman Podcast
#334 โ€“ Abbas Amanat: Iran Protests, Mahsa Amini, History, CIA & Nuclear Weapons

That's where they are as a generation.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#334 โ€“ Abbas Amanat: Iran Protests, Mahsa Amini, History, CIA & Nuclear Weapons

So it's a sense of pride as we are different from the older generation.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#334 โ€“ Abbas Amanat: Iran Protests, Mahsa Amini, History, CIA & Nuclear Weapons

From your parents who compromised and lived with the restrictions that the Islamic regime put on you.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#334 โ€“ Abbas Amanat: Iran Protests, Mahsa Amini, History, CIA & Nuclear Weapons

Their grandparents was the generation that actually involved in the revolution of 79.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#334 โ€“ Abbas Amanat: Iran Protests, Mahsa Amini, History, CIA & Nuclear Weapons

the parents, which were the middle generation, and these are the third generation after the revolution of 1979.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#334 โ€“ Abbas Amanat: Iran Protests, Mahsa Amini, History, CIA & Nuclear Weapons

And therefore, they differentiate themselves in terms of their identity from the older generation.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#334 โ€“ Abbas Amanat: Iran Protests, Mahsa Amini, History, CIA & Nuclear Weapons

So that's the life part of it.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#334 โ€“ Abbas Amanat: Iran Protests, Mahsa Amini, History, CIA & Nuclear Weapons

One can go more and more.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#334 โ€“ Abbas Amanat: Iran Protests, Mahsa Amini, History, CIA & Nuclear Weapons

They want to access.