[lbo-talk] What crap

[Mike Ballard]

Woj wrote:
>In one setting, hospital nurses were telephoned by an
unknown to them doctor >who informed them that he was
running late and asked them to administer a
>certain medication  to a patient of his.  The dose he
ordered was several >times the maximum allowed on the
medication's (a harmless placebo) 
label. >Most nurses complied with the order - even
though no sadism of any sort was >involved in this
replication.  
>
This is a totally different case, it implies
ignorance/indifference possibly even overwork, rather
than sadism. But I'm willing to believe the general
observation about people's relation to authority. It
should not be suprising: it is beaten
(literally/figuratively) into them from a 
very early age.

Joanna

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The authoritarian personality character structure also
includes automatomism.  Indifference and what Arendt
identified nicely as "the banality of evil" are
intertwined.

socialist greetings,
Mike B)

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"The danger of the past was that men became slaves.
The danger of the future is that men may become
robots. True enough, robots do not rebel. But given
man's nature, robots cannot live and remain sane, they
become 'Golems,' they will destroy their world and
themselves because they cannot stand any longer the
boredom of a meaningless life."- Erich Fromm

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it is because I have stood on 
the shoulders of giants.

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