The more things change
Oct. 21st, 2006 08:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catalyst2In reference to Germany in the 30's and 40's:
"What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could not understand it, it could not be released because of national security. (An excerpt from "They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45" by Milton Mayer)
It is such a close parallel to how so many governments operate today that it just send shivers up and down my spine.
I have no words.
"What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could not understand it, it could not be released because of national security. (An excerpt from "They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45" by Milton Mayer)
It is such a close parallel to how so many governments operate today that it just send shivers up and down my spine.
I have no words.
