I had literally just finished reading about the ill-fated Donner Party when I saw the title of this piece. There are some interesting similarities. Joking aside, I see Germany 1933 on playing out in America. Same joke of a man elevated to godlike status, who got ordinary people to do horrific things in his name. I cannot understand how it happened then. I cannot understand how it is happening now.
I had literally just finished reading about the ill-fated Donner Party when I saw the title of this piece. There are some interesting similarities. Joking aside, I see Germany 1933 on playing out in America. Same joke of a man elevated to godlike status, who got ordinary people to do horrific things in his name. I cannot understand how it happened then. I cannot understand how it is happening now.
Although I can work out an intellectual semi-understanding of how we got into this predicament, it relies heavily on pushing the emotional buttons of a population in ways that get many people to make illogical choices. I tend to analyze a lot. It's possible to push my emotional buttons, but it isn't easy... so I don't have a gut sense of how this happens.
It's weird to see these times so differently from the way so many people see them. That has happened to some extent most of my adult life. It jumped to an entirely different gear with the Brexit referendum and has gotten more and more strange ever since.
I had literally just finished reading about the ill-fated Donner Party when I saw the title of this piece. There are some interesting similarities. Joking aside, I see Germany 1933 on playing out in America. Same joke of a man elevated to godlike status, who got ordinary people to do horrific things in his name. I cannot understand how it happened then. I cannot understand how it is happening now.
I didn't intend my title to bring *that* to mind!
Although I can work out an intellectual semi-understanding of how we got into this predicament, it relies heavily on pushing the emotional buttons of a population in ways that get many people to make illogical choices. I tend to analyze a lot. It's possible to push my emotional buttons, but it isn't easy... so I don't have a gut sense of how this happens.
It's weird to see these times so differently from the way so many people see them. That has happened to some extent most of my adult life. It jumped to an entirely different gear with the Brexit referendum and has gotten more and more strange ever since.