"For
those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task
than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of
indoctrination. These are easy to perceive in the totalitarian
societies, much less so in the system of 'brainwashing under freedom'
to which we are subjected and in which all too often we serve as
unwilling instruments." Noam Chomsky
"With
numbing regularity good people were seen to knuckle under the demands
of authority and perform actions that were callous and severe. Men who
are in everyday life responsible and decent were seduced by the
trappings of authority, by the control of their perceptions, and by the
uncritical acceptance of the experimenter's definition of the
situation, into performing harsh acts. A substantial proportion of
people do what they are told to do, irrespective of the content of the
act and without limitations of conscience, so long as they perceive
that the command comes from a legitimate authority" Stanley Milgram, 1965
"Civil
disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our
problem is that numbers of people all over the world have obeyed the
dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and
millions have been killed because of this obedience. Our problem is
that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and
starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that
people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves, and all
the while the grand thieves are running and robbing the country. That's
our problem.": Howard Zinn, from 'Failure to Quit'
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we no longer have banners, nor queens rule here:
http://kosmicdebris.blogspot.com/2013/09/i-do-not-wish-to-kill-nor-to-be-killed.htmlme
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