A change in the weather
Feb. 11th, 2007 07:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cmdr_zoomSo I was surfing around and I came across JMS's commentary on the B5 episode "Into the Fire" (first aired almost exactly eleven years ago) - this bit in particular, on why Nightwatch, the imposition of martial law by Clark, etc seems to be met with so little public outcry:
"Could it happen right here, right now? No, because the surrounding climate isn't right. Could it happen if the conditions *were* right? Of course it could. We're not genetically or evolutionarily different from the Germans or the Russians or the Cubans or the Iraquis. If we think we'd never fall for that, we place ourselves in *exactly* the position of guaranteeing that we *will* fall for it. Because we won't recognize it when it happens. We can justify and rationalize it as something else."
You can read the rest here. It's fascinating, and unsettling, to look back from the far side of 2001.
"Could it happen right here, right now? No, because the surrounding climate isn't right. Could it happen if the conditions *were* right? Of course it could. We're not genetically or evolutionarily different from the Germans or the Russians or the Cubans or the Iraquis. If we think we'd never fall for that, we place ourselves in *exactly* the position of guaranteeing that we *will* fall for it. Because we won't recognize it when it happens. We can justify and rationalize it as something else."
You can read the rest here. It's fascinating, and unsettling, to look back from the far side of 2001.
