From Cooperation to Complicity

garym — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 09:32:27 -0400

I've wondered how it could happen, how otherwise sane and reasonable people so gleefully put their own civilization in jeapardy as they leap whole-heartedly into a monotonic operational philosophy founded on the worst elements of business-interests gone mad, flying full-throttle into the daily evidences of spam and virus attacks, in light of Supreme Court indictments, in the shadow of all historical fiascos of monopoly supply and concentrations of authority, how could it happen? We are, they say, supposed to be the enlightened, scientific era, and the singularly most educated generation of that era, and yet, peeking at the technorati, this PR confession by Microsoft lasted less than a few hours of golly will you look at that blog time.

How is this possible? How can this be? Here now a plausible answer, a sociological result from Peter Hayes, a Modern History professor commissioned by a post-hoc guilty corporate conscience to investigate the extreme domain of people and monotonic politics gone mad:

"... most people, when presented with opportunities or imperatives that they have every imminent or material reason to accept or accede to and only potential or moral grounds to reject, will choose the course of least resistance, internalize the arguments that legitimate it, and balk at admitting that one could or should have done otherwise."

[ via Degussa in the National Socialist Era ]

It is likely no coincidence that Albert Einstein, who himself only narrowly escaped the wrath of said moral-abstainers, did say on this, "The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing."

Amen.

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From Cooperation to Complicity