Technology was higher in the Middle East because that's where cities and agriculture got started - both of which allow massive exploitation of people in big civic projects (building, war, etc) for the benefit of The Few. Starts with Akkad,Ur, Sumer, big long continuous line through Persia, Assyria, Caliphates, through to Iran.

Europe from Greece thru Rome to today's Anglo-Saxon Empire only got its shit together relatively later, after our Dark Age. The Middle East is going through its Dark Age now - and we're trying to make sure it doesn't get back out again any time soon.

So I think the technology and culture wars between us (The West) and Persia are for historical reasons, and they're still being fought. It's not an energy in the soil - it's different energies in our cultures, in our minds, what we're willing to live and die for. Same reason why our own TPTB trying to do that Sumerian Juju shit on us and shackle us all to some big anti-individualist slave wagon ain't gointa work. We don't do it like that over here.

Definitely ain't nothing to do with 'god', for sure. ;-)