On Obediance
At left are the words of Erich Fromm, whom I would have called an early psychologist rather than a philosopher, but I suppose the boundaries are loose.
In the main, most Americans, me included, are rule-followers, which is why we stop at red lights. If our scientists tell us to have our children vaccinated against smallpox or polio, that’s precisely what we do, regardless of what we’re told by the crackpot in charge of human health.
Having said that, the uprising of a fascist autocracy in the United States is not going to be acceptable for the vast majority of Americans.
May this always be the case.
Thought this was clever.
The moron who composed the meme here actually got one thing right. Trump has shown us the endgame that many of us saw coming, i.e., desperation. He knows that the midterms will almost definitely result in his being removed from office, so he’s turning Minnesota into a war zone, so as to justify martial law.
This sounds good on the surface, but the problem is that average Americans aren’t exposed to the thoughts of intellectuals, and even if they were, they a) couldn’t care less about them, or b) would reject them as “leftist propaganda,” or “elitist.”
Regarding the cartoon at left, a reader notes: Yeah, because NASA landed a man on the moon and flies drones on Mars by fudging numbers.
There is no doubt that poverty, ignorance, intolerance, and support of criminal tyrants are deeply interconnected. It’s a shame that nothing can be done to help these people.
It’s almost inconceivable that there was a time in history that the most powerful person on the planet, in this case the emperor of ancient Rome, was a supremely good person.
Exactly.
As anyone could have predicted, there is a huge correlation between poor education/ignorance, moral poverty, and incarceration levels.
