“Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience.
Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders… 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… the grand thieves are running the country.
That’s our problem.”
–Howard Zinn
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sums up todays theory!
ReplyDeleteI hope there are some (though I seriously doubt it) who will see themselves reflected in this. Especially the ones who keep saying "if you're not doing anything wrong, then you have nothing to worry about" and perhaps others who say "the system is working" and finally, the ones who shout "treason!!" when talk of resistance and revolution is bandied about....By the power of the state and the media, we have become "conditioned". To searches, to beatings, to surveillance, to ever-lowering standards of living, to hundreds of billions of dollars going to just a few families, while many work two jobs and don't eat well, to an elite of rulers who make rules for US but exempt themselves from the same laws and tell us we need to "sacrifice more", to draconian measures taken against anyone who dares question the "system".
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