http://cryptogon.com/?p=2042 news - analysis - conspiracies Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:25:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://cryptogon.com/?p=2042&cpage=1#comment-12150 pookie Sun, 17 Feb 2008 22:35:46 +0000 http://cryptogon.com/?p=2042#comment-12150 A few years ago when I was teaching at a tech college in NY, I handed out an essay to my students that rather movingly illustrated just why it's so important to think independently, question authority, and stop being sheeple. The essay detailed the experience of a worker in one of the Twin Towers on 9/11. The building emergency "authorities" and also his boss were advising everyone to stay put -- all was under control. This guy said "fine, we should all leave and then if it's really under control, we can simply return in 15 minutes." Not one of his dozens of colleagues could be convinced by him that, hey, let's just take our coffee break on the ground floor and play it safe. We'll be right back if there's nothing to it. He said he has painful memories of some of them being convinced, but then ultimately listening to the boss's pooh-poohing of this man's concern. He even remembers the laughing, ridiculing looks of some of his colleagues as the elevator doors closed on him. You can guess the rest of the story -- his sheeple colleagues died. A few years ago when I was teaching at a tech college in NY, I handed out an essay to my students that rather movingly illustrated just why it’s so important to think independently, question authority, and stop being sheeple. The essay detailed the experience of a worker in one of the Twin Towers on 9/11. The building emergency “authorities” and also his boss were advising everyone to stay put — all was under control. This guy said “fine, we should all leave and then if it’s really under control, we can simply return in 15 minutes.” Not one of his dozens of colleagues could be convinced by him that, hey, let’s just take our coffee break on the ground floor and play it safe. We’ll be right back if there’s nothing to it. He said he has painful memories of some of them being convinced, but then ultimately listening to the boss’s pooh-poohing of this man’s concern. He even remembers the laughing, ridiculing looks of some of his colleagues as the elevator doors closed on him. You can guess the rest of the story — his sheeple colleagues died.

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