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The Slave Market and the Theatre of European Anxiety

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Author Brian Hawkeswood.                                                                                                   Nach unten scrollen für die deutsche Übersetzung https://artelbestudio.blogspot.com/2025/04/orientalist-beautiful-form-of-realism.html When Jean-Léon Gérôme exhibited The Slave Market in 1871, Europe was not an innocent observer of slavery. The Atlantic system had only recently been dismantled in parts of the Western world; Brazil would abolish slavery in 1888. European empires were expanding across Africa and the Middle East. Racial hierarchies were being codified in pseudo-scientific language. Anthropology, colonial administration, and academic painting shared an overlapping visual culture.         ...
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The Willing Executioners: Psychology, Obedience, and the Human Condition under Tyranny

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  Abstract This essay investigates the psychological mechanisms that enable ordinary people to become willing accomplices to tyrants. While dictators like Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and Mussolini rarely killed directly, their genocides, purges, and atrocities were executed by millions of compliant citizens. Drawing from psychological research, historical case studies, and philosophical inquiry, the essay explores how obedience, authority, conformity, fear, ideological indoctrination, and the seduction of power lead individuals to suspend morality. Ultimately, it asks: what is it about the human condition that allows mass violence to flourish—and how can we resist it?                                                            Soon to be murdered children in  Auschwitz . Would you kill these children? Introduction: Tyranny Needs Hands ...
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