How can anyone blindly accept what another person says without question? Without thinking for themselves? Without any reasoning at all?
OK, maybe for the first few months of life when an infant is totally dependent on someone else for survival. However, even babies protest. They cry if they are hungry or wet or hurt. If things aren't right, they let someone know about it.
Unless they are damaged in some way or taught their survival depends on NOT speaking up. On NOT raising a fuss.
Is that what has happened to so many people in the United States? Is that why so many do not question? Do not demand answers to actions or statements that make no sense at all? Do not, in fact, even seem to realize these actions and statements make no sense.
This is like watching a person rape and beat a child, then nodding in agreement when that person says, "I didn't hurt anyone." The child may be lying on the ground, bleeding and broken, yet they don't question. In fact, they defend the person who did this horrible thing. I've seen and experienced that in my own life, and that is what I'm seeing in this country. The same blind, unreasoning acceptance and defense of lies. Of dangerous, self-serving, immoral actions.
Where is the outrage? Where is the protest?
Have we been damaged or brainwashed or "socialized" to the point where we think our survival depends on not speaking up or raising a fuss?
Or can we muster the courage and integrity to seek the truth, to face our own complicity, and insist on higher ideals for everyone, including ourselves?
