All of a sudden, the hen sprung into consciousness, looked around at its mindless sisters scratching and clucking, and proclaimed "I hereby declare my independence from this oppressive regime! No more laying eggs for some biped's breakfast while I have to settle for dry corn and a stinking coop...
Looking back at my childhood in communist Romania I remember the respect towards authority that was instilled in all of us. Yes, I grew up in a system where the authority was always above everyone else, they were never wrong no matter the circumstance and we had the right to keep our mouth shut and never...
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Wisdom
by
gustava
on Wed, Nov 18 2009
Filed under: economy, hope, government, corruption, freedom
A copule years ago a book was published called The Lucifer Effect . It recorded a long-running experiment at Stanford University where some students were "prison guards" and other students were "inmates." To make a long storty short, the gaurds basically went power mad and a mini...