Ravenmoon Validated Poster
Joined: 19 Feb 2007 Posts: 410 Location: Sheffield
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Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 8:18 pm Post subject: America 2007 Is Germany 1930 |
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Quote: | To the Germans in Mayer's study, each occasion of Nazi violence was worse than the last, but only a little worse. So they waited for the one shocking event, thinking that they would join with others if or when it happened. But as the violence escalated, no one rose up to condemn the concentration camps and general oppression. No one wanted to act alone, and when a mass uprising failed to occur, the common people just let events take their course. They progressively lost the ability to understand the horror of Nazism and the will to oppose it.
Similarly, we don't see the growing fascism in America and the world because we don't want to see it and because it happens somewhat gradually, which makes it almost imperceptible to those who don't think critically. Everything in your society--Nazi Germany or twenty-first century America--seems so ordinary.
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http://www.hermes-press.com/germany1930.htm _________________ "The people will believe what the media tells them they believe." George Orwell |
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