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Bettina's avatar

Our education system trains young minds to be compliant and obedient and uses shame and exclusion to make sure no-one rebels. After potentially 20 years of this mind warping on impressionable young minds, they become very good at following orders. That's not an accident.

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Regina's avatar

We have to drill this point home about following orders...I do believe at some point--"the truth will out'

Have you read "They Thought They Were Free" by Milton Mayer?

It shows what happened in Germany in the aftermath of WWII in one German town.

Solzhenitsyn is right "live not by lies" the hardest, but the best way to live.

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