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funny, i think people swallow a lot of nonsense because it's nicer to believe the world is orderly and under control -- even if the order is bad and the ones in
by pasquinelli 9y ago
funny, i think people swallow a lot of nonsense because it's nicer to believe the world is orderly and under control -- even if the order is bad and the ones in control are malevolent -- rather than a chain reaction of accidents that no one is in control of.
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- eeZah7Ux 9y agoA lot of people in the world are thought to identify with their nationality and believe their society to have good ethical and moral qualities. In an us-versus-them worldview that means somebody else has to be the bad guy. Not surprisingly, the mere though of your government kidnapping and torturing innocents or taking part of genocides is deeply traumatizing. Denial, distrust or anger directed to people exposing terrible facts is to be expected. (I'm not referring to the US specifically. This patterns of denial seemed to be common under nazism in Germany where a lot of people refused to believe the magnitude of atrocities committed by their government)