SHOOTING at the OLYMPICS

[WTE_Galway]

Originally Posted by ATAG_Bliss

But one thing that will NEVER happen is some other country invading, or our own government rounding us up like sheep to be slaughtered.

But aside from one aircraft that is exactly what happened with 9/11. Everyone just sat there.

The famous Milgram experiment in the 1950's were designed to prove that unlike other cultures (such as Germans and Japanese) average Americans were immune to Authoritarian influences and would disobey if ordered to do something immoral. As one would expect, Americans were every bit as likely to blindly obey authority as anyone else.

If anything, the strong hold of fundamentalism and rule-driven bible belt morality shows that the tendency to endorse and comply with authoritarian rules is strong in the US. (always bearing in mind the true fundamentalist needs a combination of both OCD and psychopathic personality disorders, but quite normal people can still be swayed to endorse the mind set)

In fact my personal impression is you are unlikely to get an uprising in the US against an authoritarian neo-fascist (fascist in the nazi sense of promoting "patriotism" as the ultimate good) government. However you are quite likely to get an uprising of gun toting militia in the US if a truly democratic government, that had upset big business and the religious right, got into power.

[ATAG_Bliss]

Originally Posted by WTE_Galway

But aside from one plane that is exactly what happened with 9/11. Everyone just sat there.

Everyone just sat there because noone expected the people who took over the planes to kill themselves with them. That would be like saying some army is invading your country and then walks in with a nuke strapped to his back to blow not only his army up, but the population as well.

And the whole reason "one plane" did something is because they found out what happened to the other 2. Which just so happened to be my point.

And I could care less about some irrelevant study. Unless you live in the US, or grew up in the US, you really don't know our mentality, regardless of what source/study you are pulling from. People do very different things in life threatening situations. No scientific study could possibly monitor that, unless the situation was truly life threatening.