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Information Clearing House NewsletterNews You Won't Find On CNN
19/04/08
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"Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.": John Milton
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"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
"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
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"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'
"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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"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
Milgram
was a psychologist who performed a series of experiments that proved
conclusively that obedience to authority was so ingrained in the
average US citizen they were prepared to cause lethal harm to others
when instructed by authority figures to do so.
All
those who took part were first asked if they would be capable of
killing or inflicting severe pain on their fellow human beings. 100%
replied categorically 'no'.
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