COLLECTIVE MADNESS


“Soft despotism is a term coined by Alexis de Tocqueville describing the state into which a country overrun by "a network of small complicated rules" might degrade. Soft despotism is different from despotism (also called 'hard despotism') in the sense that it is not obvious to the people."
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Wednesday, December 07, 2011

Pearl Who? 7 December 1941, + 70




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Friday, December 07, 2007

7 December 1941. Sixty Six Years On.


Burying the dead after the attack


Pearl was one of those truly transitional moments in US history. A singular event dragged America onto the World stage, where it remains today. To put the times in context, look at this Dept of Interior Film from 1937, four years before Pearl.

The US South on the eve of WWII



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