Blakeyboy; it's futile. There is a segment who simply refuse to see anything that might threaten either their own sense of importance and autarchy or just their peace of mind. When you see yourself as a king in your own little world, why look over the hill? It only makes you feel small.
Many are pure individualists uninterested in anything but themselves and their own advantage and they continue to be so no matter what the situation. At the extreme end of that scale are the narcissists and psychopaths.
When repressive regimes are installed such people either go along to get along, or in a considerable number of cases are quick to find niches for themselves in the apparatus of power or repression.
Their fundamental lack of interest in their fellow citizens or their fate makes this easy and not only easy, but they think it perfectly right and even moral: "every man for himself", "if I didn't do it someone else would" etc. etc.
Many are pure individualists uninterested in anything but themselves and their own advantage and they continue to be so no matter what the situation. At the extreme end of that scale are the narcissists and psychopaths.
When repressive regimes are installed such people either go along to get along, or in a considerable number of cases are quick to find niches for themselves in the apparatus of power or repression.
Their fundamental lack of interest in their fellow citizens or their fate makes this easy and not only easy, but they think it perfectly right and even moral: "every man for himself", "if I didn't do it someone else would" etc. etc.