How Totalitarians Force Confessions From Innocent People
I am looking at this article from the perspective of the left, the radical left.
We all say to ourselves...how could they believe the crap they sell, how could they possibly ignore history, the truth, the obvious results of their stead fast adherence to their ideology.
Well maybe, for them, Marx never lied, their professor would never lie to them, history has it wrong so in essence, they confess by doubling down, confessing to their gods, to marx, to stalin, to alinsky or even satan itself.
They unquestionably trust what they were taught, they were promised money, power, prestige and fame...so they continue without knowing what they do...they are bad, they are guilty, so somehow must live up to the promise.
It is hard to imagine that at one point in their lives, they had the opportunity to embrace the mind, a conscience, the good and honest way of life but were convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt that the opposite way was the right path...surely, no one would lie to them about that.
We all say to ourselves...how could they believe the crap they sell, how could they possibly ignore history, the truth, the obvious results of their stead fast adherence to their ideology.
Well maybe, for them, Marx never lied, their professor would never lie to them, history has it wrong so in essence, they confess by doubling down, confessing to their gods, to marx, to stalin, to alinsky or even satan itself.
They unquestionably trust what they were taught, they were promised money, power, prestige and fame...so they continue without knowing what they do...they are bad, they are guilty, so somehow must live up to the promise.
It is hard to imagine that at one point in their lives, they had the opportunity to embrace the mind, a conscience, the good and honest way of life but were convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt that the opposite way was the right path...surely, no one would lie to them about that.
