The link to this video was originally posted in the Open Thread by Steve trickler.
A Sunday contemplation:
To nourish and feed the soul,
Or to ponder over ………..
If we wait for history to present us with freedom and other precious gifts, we risk waiting in vain. History is us—and there is no alternative but to shoulder the burden of what we so passionately desire and bear it out of the depths.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A Sunday contemplation:
To nourish and feed the soul,
Or to ponder over ………..
During the past two years, the saner sections of the human race have been comparing the powers used by their governments, to a period in the last century; that of the dictatorial regime in Nazi Germany between the 1930s and 40s.
In the 1960s, Stanley Milgram, a Yale psychologist, conducted experiments on destructive obedience to authority. The aim of the experiment was to understand the extent to which people would be prepared to obey an instruction, if it involved harming another person. Could ordinary people be influenced into committing atrocities, similar to the Germans in WWII?
May it be Happy.
May it be Healthy.
May it be filled with Hope.
