Why are so many people giving up their civil liberties, walking around with cloth over their noses and acting like they're frightened of one another? Blind obedience and faith in authority figures, I would argue, is the culprit. Americans, and people around the world it seems, have learned to just do what they're told, to not ask questions, to just assume that the authorities know what is right.
Is the sky blue? Not if Tony Fauci says it isn't!
Several years ago, a crime was committed in several states here in the USA. A con artist called over sixty fast-food restaurants, claimed to be a police detective then convinced the managers and employees of the restaurants to engage in unthinkable sexual acts--acts they'd never have engaged in otherwise. The victims did things that went against their core moral values. They obeyed orders from a stranger, a man they couldn't even see, who told them what to do over the phone.
Many people want to blame our educational system or television and social media addiction for today's Covidian cult-like behavior on the part of Americans who are willingly giving up their civil liberties and allowing a frightening totalitarian system to take over.
What is happening here in America and around the world is beyond frightening. We are watching a hybrid of 1984 and Brave New World emerging before our very eyes. But why? How?
Could it be that we humans naturally obey authority? Perhaps education isn't the problem but the possible solution. Perhaps kids need to learn not about the Constitution but about obedience, conformity and how power is wielded over those who thoughtlessly embrace the two.
#weainthavingit #orwell #1984 #obedience
