Comment on Does the average person have no critical thinking?
iii@mander.xyz 3 weeks agoTeach your children to be skeptical of the authorities, and be vigilent of propaganda.
I grew up in DDR. That act in itself is punishable. In mandatory state school teachers, there was a lot “to the benefit of the group” communist propaganda. Teachers would get benefits if they succesfully got children to tell on their family, or their friends. The children who did so were lauded.
Do you think your 8 year old kid would not tell his best friend what you talked about?
I think your imagination fails to understand the magnitute of surpressing a state can and will do. It’s not just the state, and bad guys in it. It’s everywhere. 1-in-3 people were informants to the stasi. Je stärker der Sozialismus, desto sicherer der Frieden.
angrystego@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I do think people without direct experience are unable to understand the depth or the totalitarian evil. It’s just too terrifying to accept that one can be trully powerless, that any kind of resistance can lead not just to the destruction of themselves, but also their families, that the degree of bullying and control can be so high and the regard for human life so low.
It’s too scary, so normal human minds just refuse it as a possibility and try to imagine more optimistic scenarios.
It’s healthy not to lose hope, but it’s also not good to underestimate the evil and unfair to look down on the people facing it.