For those of you who don't know, we have a chapter on campus. If you saw people handing out white roses last year, that was them. I say them, because overwhelmed by dissertation stuff, I filled out the membership form and never sent it in (shameful and to be corrected upon my return). Now there's a movie, which might be worth the seeing. It addresses issues and questions which have always fascinated me -- about dissenters, bystanders, and survivors. What makes one person stand up and another stand down.
REC and I have had this conversation many times. How is it good, intelligent people can make a difference in the face of overwhelming incentives not to? How to even know when one ought to stand up? How to get your footing on the slippery slope?
A lot of people in Chile, Bolivia, and Argentina seem to be telling me things aren't so clearly black or white. Similarly, lots of literature on the Holocaust and other "holocaust systems" reinforces this idea. I wonder if that's really the case or if it's just what we tell ourselves much of the time to justify not taking a position.
B.
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