Good evening. On Friday, the Department of Justice served the Federal Reserve with grand jury subpoenas, threatening a criminal indictment related to my testi
This is pretty insane. It feels like US institutions are crumbling
But that’s the thing. The conformance to what social norms? How did a plumber know he was conforming to everything expected of him?
He was white? He was employed? He didn’t speak out or help? Otherwise he just accepted that the Gestapo were going to beat his neighbor across the street nearly to death?
There was no written law regarding how two people greet each other, but it was magically determined to be the heil Hitler thing? What happened to already divorced women? What happened to already divorced men? Existing and new couples were forbidden from divorce. Women were the ones allowed to take care of children. They surely must have realized that one false step meant the end of their road? Did no one talk to each other?
To a great extent, yes. Chris Browning’s Ordinary Men could just have been about a plumber joining ICE for the pay.
While there was an obvious amount of policy and design about the movement, even more so in Germany, the design of the rallies and uniforms in the current USA suck in comparison.
But for the confirming to the new norm, people don’t need much instruction to do that. Only small amounts of direction is needed. Take the actions against people speaking out against Kirk. Or the republican statements about Mrs Good. Dissenters will have their life made hell or even shot.
People pick up on those really quickly. I many people will respond by immediately broadcasting submissive behavior, to assure them being seen as friendly to the regime. I wouldn’t be surprised if people are already ratting out relatives to the regime as we speak.
Hannah Arendt touched on that subject when coining the phrase “The banality of evil”.
But that’s the thing. The conformance to what social norms? How did a plumber know he was conforming to everything expected of him?
He was white? He was employed? He didn’t speak out or help? Otherwise he just accepted that the Gestapo were going to beat his neighbor across the street nearly to death?
There was no written law regarding how two people greet each other, but it was magically determined to be the heil Hitler thing? What happened to already divorced women? What happened to already divorced men? Existing and new couples were forbidden from divorce. Women were the ones allowed to take care of children. They surely must have realized that one false step meant the end of their road? Did no one talk to each other?
To a great extent, yes. Chris Browning’s Ordinary Men could just have been about a plumber joining ICE for the pay.
While there was an obvious amount of policy and design about the movement, even more so in Germany, the design of the rallies and uniforms in the current USA suck in comparison.
But for the confirming to the new norm, people don’t need much instruction to do that. Only small amounts of direction is needed. Take the actions against people speaking out against Kirk. Or the republican statements about Mrs Good. Dissenters will have their life made hell or even shot.
People pick up on those really quickly. I many people will respond by immediately broadcasting submissive behavior, to assure them being seen as friendly to the regime. I wouldn’t be surprised if people are already ratting out relatives to the regime as we speak.