07-28-2017, 04:26 PM
(11-20-2016, 05:14 PM)disasterzone Wrote: That's what I don't understand. If you constantly see authority not handling things right, why would you trust them more? Especially after seeing how authority acts in a 4T like Hitler or Stalin. I mean the 4T was full of bad examples for authority. So why did they trust lobotomies and thalidomide and take every authority's word?
The losing 4T authorities were branded "bad" and the winning ones were branded "good". And given the vindictiveness with which 4T crises with which Civics are familiar with are fought, it behooved all the GIs to be loyal to the winning, "good" authorities.
If today's millennials are any guide, they may also have had parents who directed and provided for their every move, so they were just plain more comfortable with doing what authorities told them to do.