How people can change dramatically and lose FREEDOM !

in historylessons •  9 years ago  (edited)

We think we understand much of our lives .

And from others. From all history, from other countries, from other periods of time. We have a good reasoning, right ?

We think we are smarter than others.

We think this couldn't happen to us. Never. Because we are smart.

We think we can't be manipulated

(so easily).

Yeah, these days people are hunting for pokemons, right ?

People are watching a soccer game when something else is behind the scene, right ?

What about Turkey these days ? 6.000 people were put to prison. 290 dead. Erdogan is not playing. Putin is just a few thousand km from there and he is unpredictably as well.
That part of Europe boils something bad.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36833733

Anyway, I found a piece of history that tell us so much about the human behaviour. When you're scared, you lack security, money, food and everything then you are fragile. Very fragile.

When you feel like your future is broken.

That's the moment when you collapse in front of a good reasoning. And you lose common sense. And, in no time, everything else. Like freedom and democracy.

Look: How did Hitler rise to power?

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Another idiotisim of people is nationality or racial beliefs.
Good exmaple how fear and anger along with nation pride lead to catastrofe if people are not strong and let someone else acts on their behalf either if they are not intersted or think someone else knows better.
Education, love (understanding) is all we need..

Yes, education, but we are all human beings and have a tornado of feelings all the time inside us. When those feelings are mixed with ignorance and the environment is very bad (we lose our job, our friends, we struggle to survive) then, in these moments, we are weaker than before. And we give the power to someone else (to save us).

Of course, it's bad that it happens, but it happens. We can be easily manipulated.

" idiotisim of people is nationality or racial beliefs." --- I agree.