Human beings do not wish to see themselves as cowards. They want to see themselves as heroes.
And, as they are shaped and taught to fear even the slightest accusation of thought crime, they will not view themselves as weak for falling in line. Instead they will view themselves as virtuous. And that is the sin of it.
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Slaves can feel proud, once they forget they are slaves.
Maybe. A hell of a lot will feel deep burning hatred at being forced into PC compliance by threat's against them, their livelihood and their families.
Antoine de St-Exupery wrote about some actual slaves he knew in North Africa (in the late 1920s and or early 1930s) and the one who had not accepted the situation:
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Slavery is not uniform for civs. What is an actual slave?
That’s an excellent piece.
David Foster: Thanks for that.
St-Ex should be read much more; there's a lot of valuable work in addition to 'The Little Prince." I especially recommend 'Flight to Arras', in which the author (he was a recon pilot in the 1940 campaign) seeks to explain to himself why he should die in a battle that he knows is already lost.
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