I was wondering whether the final sentence could have induced some negative responses. After all criticism and judgment are considered to be in very poor taste in some parts of polite, ordinary and mainstream (read: hypocritical) society.
But then again, it was those who were 'impolite' and 'outcasts' who stood up to the authority figures in the Milgram experiment; and it was the 'polite' and 'ordinary' etc who shut their eyes and pretended not to see as fascism rose to power.
And I am sure they would do it again. Writing in the midst of the cold war Herbert Marcuse (in One Dimensional Man) was astounded with the promotion of a false "Happy Consciousness" and the avoidance of criticism, of judgmental comments etc; in the face of possible nuclear war and the obliteration of all species!
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I was wondering whether the final sentence could have induced some negative responses. After all criticism and judgment are considered to be in very poor taste in some parts of polite, ordinary and mainstream (read: hypocritical) society.
But then again, it was those who were 'impolite' and 'outcasts' who stood up to the authority figures in the Milgram experiment; and it was the 'polite' and 'ordinary' etc who shut their eyes and pretended not to see as fascism rose to power.
And I am sure they would do it again. Writing in the midst of the cold war Herbert Marcuse (in One Dimensional Man) was astounded with the promotion of a false "Happy Consciousness" and the avoidance of criticism, of judgmental comments etc; in the face of possible nuclear war and the obliteration of all species!