The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.
One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us.
We all like to think that the line between good and evil is impermeable--that people who do terrible things, such as commit murder, treason, or kidnapping, are on the evil side of this line, and the rest of us could never cross it. But the Stanford Prison Experiment and the Milgram studies revealed the permeability of that line. Some people are on the good side only because situations have never coerced or seduced them to cross over.
Heroes are Ordinary People whose social action is Extra-Ordinary who ACT when others are passive, who give up EGO-centrism for SOCIO-centrism.
The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.
If you put good apples into a bad situation, you’ll get bad apples.
If you want to change a person, you've got to change the situation.
Donald Rumsfeld also lost his gig last week. When asked what his future plans are, Rumsfeld said, 'What's a plan?'
Of course, in our country, developing in a region with somewhat conservative traditions, women were desperately needed to be more engaged - socially, economically, politically.
The film [the white Ribbon] does try to use German Fascism as an example, but not specifically Fascism. . . the results of German Fascism. It shows how people are prepared or indoctrinated for an ideology. . . people who are already in a state of repression who have been humiliated by society and who clasp at a straw that's offered to them. And how that's then developed into a form of indoctrination.
At difficult times of my life, books have been an incredible comfort. When I was 12, I changed schools and my parents split up. It was then that I became addicted to reading. A great writer can attach themselves to your mind and heart, and you feel you understand the world better. As long as you have the capacity to read, you needn't be alone any more. I remember thinking as a child, "If I could give one person the comfort I keep getting from books, then I want to write. "