"It’s not hard to get people to care about tyranny that affects them personally or affects other people in their country, but getting people to think about the victims of your government’s starvation sanctions, drone bombs or proxy warfare is difficult."
That's an interesting premise, namely the first part of that sentence.
Not sure I agree Caitlin. Let's take cops for example.
They're programmed and trained like circus seals that every member of the "public," while failing to realize that THEY are "the public" too at times, is out to get them and a potential danger. Hence why they act the way that they do, namely half or fully psychotic.
I doubt that any of them give much thought to what they're actually "Protecting and serving ..." besides Tyranny as they wilfully do its bidding.
Yet, that affects them personally whether they're aware of it or not. It also affects their friends and family.
Same for people employed (meaning making money off of) our medical establishment, an INDUSTRY that THRIVES and is driven by ill-health and disease, quite often caused by the "solutions" provided by the former. And let's take the last several years where both hospitals and doctors, and in some cases nurses, got paid to kill people. With a societal boomerang affect that affects them personally too even if not directly. Yet, neither seem to have a problem with it and defer to the age old "just following orders" mantra in defense of murder.
As I see it, a good chunck of society has lost any and all moral compass and is driven by the basest of all human vices, namely greed.
And think about it, our society is bitterly divided within itself, with many people not only willing but eager to kill others on the other "side." Look at all the evil sentiment with murderous intent, even literally, by those that did, insisting that those that did not put unknown toxic chemicals into their bodies, should die via one mechanism or another.
A society as divided as that, IMO it's asking way way way too much to get them to consider anything as such outside of their immediate realm.
Then factor in stupidity, ignorance, etc. too.
Interesting piece perhaps, but I disagree wholeheartedly with the premise. I'm even far from convinced that the majority even recognizes tyranny as such. Audiences/readers here are a minority.
"It’s not hard to get people to care about tyranny that affects them personally or affects other people in their country, but getting people to think about the victims of your government’s starvation sanctions, drone bombs or proxy warfare is difficult."
That's an interesting premise, namely the first part of that sentence.
Not sure I agree Caitlin. Let's take cops for example.
They're programmed and trained like circus seals that every member of the "public," while failing to realize that THEY are "the public" too at times, is out to get them and a potential danger. Hence why they act the way that they do, namely half or fully psychotic.
I doubt that any of them give much thought to what they're actually "Protecting and serving ..." besides Tyranny as they wilfully do its bidding.
Yet, that affects them personally whether they're aware of it or not. It also affects their friends and family.
Same for people employed (meaning making money off of) our medical establishment, an INDUSTRY that THRIVES and is driven by ill-health and disease, quite often caused by the "solutions" provided by the former. And let's take the last several years where both hospitals and doctors, and in some cases nurses, got paid to kill people. With a societal boomerang affect that affects them personally too even if not directly. Yet, neither seem to have a problem with it and defer to the age old "just following orders" mantra in defense of murder.
As I see it, a good chunck of society has lost any and all moral compass and is driven by the basest of all human vices, namely greed.
And think about it, our society is bitterly divided within itself, with many people not only willing but eager to kill others on the other "side." Look at all the evil sentiment with murderous intent, even literally, by those that did, insisting that those that did not put unknown toxic chemicals into their bodies, should die via one mechanism or another.
A society as divided as that, IMO it's asking way way way too much to get them to consider anything as such outside of their immediate realm.
Then factor in stupidity, ignorance, etc. too.
Interesting piece perhaps, but I disagree wholeheartedly with the premise. I'm even far from convinced that the majority even recognizes tyranny as such. Audiences/readers here are a minority.
Just sayin' ...
"Just sayn...."- the truth.