Bruce Springsteen: "Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed."
Why do people blindly follow “leaders”? Romans 13:1-5 -- Be subject to the governing authorities because they are ordained by God. On Nov 14, 10:08 am, MJ <[email protected]> wrote: > Blind Obedience to LeadersNovember 13, 2012 > by Curt Williams > Why do people blindly follow “leaders”? Does anyone question WHERE they are > leading us to? Could a dictatorship really happen here? It is quite possible > that most of those reading this agree that yes indeed this could happen here. > There will also be those reading this that say “NO WAY, a dictatorship could > never happen here, we are the land of the free & home of the brave.” For > those people that think this couldn’t happen here, you are a fool and deserve > what happens. Take off your red, white & blue blindfold. You especially > deserve it if you voted for either of the 2 mainstream ass clowns that ran > for the seat in the White House. > We live in a time where information is so widely available for anything that > we seek to understand. There is no excuse to not know what is happening > around you. When the problems that face us have the label of “politics” we > let it be and leave it to the “politicians”. Question: If I stole money from > you for years without your knowledge then disclose to you that I was in fact > stealing from you, would you give me your PIN number for your bank acct.? Of > course you wouldn’t. We have accepted and embraced the fox that guards the > hen house. Why? Because we don’t want to take personal responsibility. We > feel inferior to the “politicians”, to politics. We feel the politicians know > what they are doing and who are we to question their great wisdom. Another > excuse. Excuses that make us feel it’s ok to pass it on to “our guy”. We > blame the politicians, we blame this group or that group. We have taken > ourself out of the equation. We are a nation of finger pointers. That will > solve our problems right? Wrong! > Fear plays a huge role in this mind set. Fear of personal responsibility, > fear of retaliation, fear of being socially ostracized, just to name a few. > We want a better world without getting our hands dirty, without standing out. > A question to the apathetic, ignorant masses, how do you plan on doing that? > Go along to get along, just do your “duty” and vote. Just do your “duty” and > support endless wars. I am so disgusted at the fact that people will support > a politician that openly states he will murder your children’s homeland. > Killing children just like yours. Let me explain. My sister has children that > are Palestinian. Because my nieces and nephews live here in the “land of the > free” it’s somehow ok to vote for someone that states that he will support > Israel and in that support, murder Palestinians. This to me doesn’t make any > sense whatsoever. YOU, yes YOU, deserve what you get in the future. Do not > cry or complain when your in-laws are murdered.Israel has threatened to > escalate the attacks against Palestinians, once again. > Humanity & morals obviously has no place in politics. Apparently it has no > place in the voting process either. It’s just much easier to just play the > game of being a good American and support whatever they say. You deserve what > you get. My dear sister, you voted for the killing of your family in > Palestine. Yes, you Romney supporters were doing the same thing, voting for > murder. Good job! Your Father should be proud. > Is the U.S. capable of being a dictatorship? Indeed we are. Let me share with > you a disturbing story of “The Wave”. In 1967 teacher Ron Jones was faced > with this question. While discussing Nazi Germany in his World History class > a student posed the question how could the German people just sit there while > their country was slipping into a dictatorship? How could the German people > say they did not know that these things were happening? Mr. Jones decided to > explain this to his class by way of an experiment.“In 1967, at the Cubberley > High School in Palo Alto, California, World History teacher Ron Jones was > asked about the Holocaust by a student. “Could it happen here?”. According to > the press release accompanying the latest retelling of the events that > followed, “Jones came up with an unusual answer. He decided to have a two > week experiment in dictatorship. His idea was to explain fascism to his class > through a game, nothing more. He never intended what resulted, where his > class would be turned into a Fascist environment. Where students gave up > their freedom for the prospect of being superior to their neighbors.Monday > morning he straightened the classroom, dimmed the lights and played Wagnerian > music. The word “discipline” was written on the blackboard. He then had the > students sit up straight in their chairs with hands placed flat across the > small of their backs. In this setting, he devoted the remainder of the class > to the topic of discipline.By the second day, Jones developed a special > greeting, a wave. It became known as the Third Wave, and if students saw each > other outside class, they were to use it. In his lectures, Jones went from > “discipline,” to “strength through community,” and then to “strength through > action.”By midweek, his “experiment” expanded to sixty students, and by the > week’s end, more than two hundred were participating. Other teachers and the > school’s principal stood by and watched.The first sign of concern came when > some students had taken it upon themselves to report others who did not > conform. After just four days, things got out of hand. Jones feared for the > safety of a few students who refused to participate. To his dismay and alarm, > the experiment was so blindly embraced by the students, that he cut the > project short. “Initially I just wanted to show my students how powerful the > pressure to belong can be, but the exercise got out of control. A momentum > began to build that I couldn’t slow, or even deter. I became frightened by > the day-to-day happenings in class, and was forced to call it off,” recalls > Jones.”http://www.thewave.tk/As we can clearly see, it was not hard at all to > take a class of students and turn them into a 1967 version of the Hitler > youth. In just a very short time, The Wave took on a life of it’s own. Those > not even in Mr. Jones’ class were recruiting their selves. Joining the Wave > without invite. This experiment clearly showed how quickly that people are > very dependent creatures. It showed just how quickly the students became > obedient when they were told what to do & how to act. They quickly turned on > other students that did not buy into the Wave. Bathrooms were set on fire, > student on student violence ensued. To prevent dissent and disobedience the > Wave, spying on other members ensued. ID cards were given to the members with > certain duties and responsibilities assigned to students such as security, > bodyguards and so on. Free speech was quelled when students tried to write > articles for the school newspaper that did not paint a pretty picture for the > Wave. Does this sound familiar at all? This is exactly what we see in our > society now. To put it simply, people WANT to be led, they want to be told > what to do. When they are told what to do, when to do it, how to do it by the > state it destroys individuality. It destroys critical thinking and brings > about blind obedience regardless of what the true intentions of the “leader” > may be. > Group think is defined as this: “a psychological phenomenon that occurs > within groups of people, in which the desire for harmony in a decision-making > group overrides a realistic appraisal of alternatives. Group members try to > minimize conflict and reach a consensus decision without critical evaluation > of alternative ideas or viewpoints. Antecedent factors such as group > cohesiveness, structural faults, and situational context play into the > likelihood of whether or not group think will impact the decision-making > process. The primary socially negative cost of group think is the loss of > individual creativity, uniqueness, and independent thinking.” This is exactly > what happened in 1967 to The Wave and it is alive an well in todays society. > You are either with us, or you are against us. I know THAT sounds familiar. > “I don’t support the killing of innocent people Curt” is what I have been > told by those that trotted off the polls to vote for someone who admits to > continuing indiscriminate bombings of innocent people. Does this make sense? > Anyone with two brain cells to rub together, can see this for what it is, > double think. What is double think? Double think is defined as such: “Thought > marked by the acceptance of gross contradictions and falsehoods, especially > when used as a technique of self-indoctrination”. Knowing that something is > wrong, but yet support the wrong doing, all for country. > The establishment expects you to accept what they do, and if you voted for > these tyrants, you have blood on your hands bottom line. If you voted for > Obama, like my sister did, you support the killing of innocent Palestinians. > If you voted for Romney, well, you voted for the same. Blindly following > leaders is a very dangerous trap to fall into. There is no one quick fix to > this problem. It needs to be fixed within ones self, not in the voting booth. > Change your thinking. No one in the alternative media is going to do that for > you. No one, and I repeat no one, can be “woken up” by another human being. > It has to be done by the individual themselves. Put yourself back into the > equation, realize that you in fact are part of the problem due to your lack > of critical thinking. Due to your blind obedience and the following of a > particular party or > politician.http://room101radio.net/2012/11/13/blind-obedience-to-leaders/ -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more.
