Say that loudly: This is fascism – and we must resist it all The far right
Zoe Williams argues that the gradual fascism arrival urges a feeling of paralysis (the new world order is exactly what it looks. Are we very frozen with fear to name it?, February 17). Her words immediately brought to the “Smoke Room Experience”.
In this study, when a person is alone in a room begins to fill smoke, he raises three quarters of the alarm within minutes. However, when others are surrounded by negative, only 10 % take action. This is the “effect of passers -by”, which was identified by Latani and Darli in the 1970s, which reveals how the silent audience can not strangle our instincts – even when our lives are at stake.
I often refer to this experience when discussing climate change, and urged people to express their fears for friends and colleagues. The same principle applies when fascism begins to crawl around us. Trusting your instincts, naming the threat and sharing your concerns is not just a shipment – it’s empowerment. It may save your life.
Dr. Caroline Vincent
London
Zoe Williams right. I worked as a psychiatrist at the Holocaust survivors center in Hindun from 1990 to 2000. I listened for 10 years to my client talking about their experiences in a world that turned from nature to nightmare within months. They survived Auschwitz and other death camps while their families were killed by Nazi death. This type of work leaves one of them with a clear and specific understanding of fascism and Nazism.
When we saw the inauguration of Donald Trump, and we witnessed Elon Musk showing Hitler like the stage before throwing his arm in the air in this familiar greeting, I was Dumbstruck for a short moment. I thought, wait for a minute, did you achieve a Nazi greeting? I had to re -watch three times before my mind allowed me to get to know it completely on what it was.
This was the moment when I knew that the Trump train had started in a new matter. Zoe Williams right. We cannot stand and watch, incredible. We need to say out loud what this is.
Paul Goldrich
Estborn, East Sussex
I was pleased with the vision of Zoe Williams, mentioning the book unknown by Charlotte Bradt-the third watermelon of dreams-to help us understand the reason we are negative in resisting dictators. I coincided with the book in the early 1980s and was re -published in 1986. It was re -published in April. The author gathered dreams of ordinary people in Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1939. What makes the book related to is that dreams show how we can despise the consciousness of a holistic system, but there is a part of us who wants to belong and accept, which explains negativity, or even collusion.
Therefore, for example, the dream in which the dreamer sees people from his balcony is associated with a goat and thinks how ridiculous and then finds himself joining them and noticing how good it is. Or the Jewish doctor saves Hitler’s life and feels happy because he is recognized. In our subconscious, we may be more cooperative in allowing the likes of Trump than we realize. Beradt found that the only people who did not have such contradictory dreams were those who were active in opposing the regime. We may all notice.
Robin Shtitt
London
To allow Zoe Williams to measure the insightful Zoe Williams a little far away, the problem with freezing it in paralysis is that we are ready prey, and the fine statues soon shattered with dust shaking. We must quickly resist collective paralysis, which is a kind of dreadful dread at the boldness of everything. We must recognize fascism in our collective being so that we can get it together. Start with your own influence, regardless of his arrival: your friends and family, for example. We call it fascism, loudly, then encourage yourself and those who love to act in the opposition, with decency and sympathy between the two syllables.
Russell Simpson
Helen Bay, County below