Industry Against Tradition: Pathology of the Development Trend in Iran

The traditional culture of undeveloped countries has been attacked by modernity during centuries of orientology literature in a more descriptive and indirect form, and around 70 years after the World War II in a direct and theorized form. In this paper, different results have been achieved based on the experiences, library research, field researches and observations in Iran during the past 25 years. The conflicts and inconsistency of the modernity school and its assumptions with historical realities both in Europe and undeveloped countries, and second wave of development in countries such as Japan, China, India, etc. showed that development issues are far more complicated and beyond the unreal claims of orientologists and modernity school. The present paper begins with criticism of orientological classification and challenges its inaccuracy, and the conflict between tradition and industry. It is an attempt to show with various conflicting and paradoxical examples that despite considering the tradition and industry as evident, it is the former that has paved the way for the latter whether in the first or second wave of development.