01-26-2018, 08:36 AM
(01-26-2018, 05:43 AM)nebraska Wrote: If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking is freedom.
Prison as a place of safety? Little is more dangerous than being around people who have proved themselves dangerous -- people who have already done violent acts, people who have already snapped, people with hair-trigger tempers, people who develop ideologies that laud group hatred...
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.