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To: detective

He has a column at Takimag that is pretty good.


14 posted on 04/10/2017 8:16:21 AM PDT by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: mrsmel

Solzhenitsyn documented similar behavior in the former Soviet Union. From the article:

“When I read Solzhenitsyn, one of the most chilling aspects of the gulag was the practice of forcing someone to agree with behavior that the targeted person knew was wrong. Self awareness of participating in a lie would cause that individual to feel compromised morally and to therefore lose the will to resist. For me, this is evil at its essence — a human being submits to self betrayal and can no longer feel worthy to fight back.”

Bella Dodd and others have identified this behavior in the American Communist Party.  


27 posted on 04/10/2017 2:26:55 PM PDT by detective
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