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Even in democracies, society tries to regulate the lives of individuals, and thus adopts the role of the dictator itself by prescribing a moral code that must be followed by its individuals. While the rules of the Islamic regime are of a legal nature and are enforced by various state agencies, social conventions are implemented through the normative force of collective consent. This gives rise to the similarities in the experience of censorship, fundamentalism and human rights, as well as enjoyment of works of imagination and the desire for individual freedoms in democracies and dictatorships. Nafisi describes the two strategies adopted by the dictatorship in the Islamic Republic to control the lives of its citizens: establishing a “proximity and intimacy” with the citizens through “acts of transgression onto our [the citizens’] ordinary lives”, and forcing citizens to become “complicit in their own crime.” These characteristics are also prevalent in democratic societies.
Approximate Word count = 448
Approximate Pages = 1.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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