– by Paul Craig Roberts
Paul Craig Roberts
A new film, "Compliance," examines "the human desire to
follow and obey authority." Liberal institutions, such as the media,
universities, federal courts, and human rights organizations, which have
traditionally functioned as checks on the
blind
obedience to authority, have in our day gone over to power's side. The
subversion of these institutions has transformed them from checks on
power into servants of power. The result is the transformation of
culture from the rule of law to unaccountable authority resting on power
maintained by propaganda.
Propaganda is important in the inculcation of trust in authority. The
Pussy Riot case shows the power of Washington's propaganda even inside
Russia itself and reveals that Washington's propaganda has suborned
important human rights organizations such as Human Rights Watch, Chatham
House and Amnesty International.
