Mithril / Nobody
@Mithril
"Kâmus namustur."
- Cemil Meriç
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Samanyolu Galaksisi
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1104 okur puanıEkim 2015 tarihinde katıldı
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It does not do to rely too much on silent majorities, Evey, for silence is a fragile thing... One loud noise, and it's gone.
But the people are so cowed and disorganised. A few might take the opportunity to protest, but it'll jist be a voice crying in the wilderness.
Noise is relative to the silence preceding it. The more absolute the HUSH, the more shocking the THUNDERCLAP. Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations, Evey. And it is much louder than they care to remember.
Happiness is a prison, Evey. Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.
I heard of an experiment once, one the Americans did. They had volunteers working a shock generator. The volunteers were told that it was wired to a patient in an adjoining room. It wasn't. There was only an actor, whose voice could be heard through the intercom. The volunteers were instructed by a doctor to start administering electric shocks. They were told to gradually increase the voltage. The "victim" began begging them to stop. They were told to increase it again. This time the victim started screaming. After a while the screams were chocked off to be replaced by silence. The volunteers were told to increase the voltage once more... Nearly 80% of those tested carried on administering shocks after the "victim" begged them to stop. Nearly 60% continued even after they believed that they killed him.
They were ordinary people, and they were prepared to torture a stranger to death just because they were told to by someone in authority. Some of them said they'd even enjoyed it. I think I enjoyed what I did at the time. People are stupod and evil. There's something wrong with us. Some hideous flaw... We deserve to be culled. We deserve it...
-That's Beethoven's Fifth... Da da da DUM! Heh heh. That's morse code, y'know.
-Uh, morse code?
-Hmm. It's morse code for the letter "V".
Everybody is special, everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain, everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.