dynamics are actually always the same: purely Human ones
I keep using that era for good reason as it's a perfect spotlight on how people do evil (and good) because it's so extreme.
Today we have deliberate systems of obfuscation, lies, hypocrisy and means to prevent accountability that are letting corproations and others evade punishment for terrible crimes. They learned lesssons form Nuremberg etc so made damn sure they are "untouchable"
Hitler, like Stalin and most other such horrors, was a lunatic, the real monsters were the huge numbers of sane folk who followed what was obviously a deranged, wicked load of bullcrap!
Most people lack the strength of will, the individuality, the true moral courage to stand up and say "yay or nay" in the face of the "crowd's general bent".
So, if the "crowd" has been swayed to do "bad things", few folk ever stand up to it, this was shown in the infamous Stanford Experiment and other such.
Now, the British Medical Association was founded in 1832, and what does history teach us about self-regulating bodies with great power and longevity? they inevitably become MONSTERS. This cannot be emphasized enough.
Churches covering up abominable child abuse in absolute polar contrast to their supposed nature.
Governments conducting heidous experiments and waging wars over lies, etc etc etc...
So the BMA (and others) has been covering up doctor's evil deeds for ages, again as I have often said, Dr John Bodkin Adams is perfect proof of this, and that cover up led directly to Shipman's 300 or so slayings....because the reputation of the "professional classes" was more important than being honest and protecting patients!
Interesting point: Shipman is the ONLY British doctor ever found guilty of murdering his patients, now, given the number and time of british doctors in existance, that is frankly impossible to believe without cover ups occuring, reinforcing the point of very widespread, heinous, secretive and abusive nature of the BMA and other professional groups desperate to keep their "status and good reputations"
More food for thought:
You're four times more likely to encounter a psychopath in Big Business than in other areas of life.
Why? For those psychopaths with better upbringing, they have less beastial needs and modern corporate systems are ideal "hunting grounds" for them, rather than murder. it's abuse bullying, power, wealth they get and it conceals them, they appear charismatic and so are admired
however they are atrocious leaders in reality, as they simply do not care about their business or staff. Such people are often admired, by all but those who work intimately with them and have the wisdom to see the bloody mess they make of things.
Now, has anyone considered this of the "professional" classes: doctors, lawyers, politicians etc?
I'd bet highly that many psychopaths hide behind a medical licence. Perfect cover for them, as their detachment and peculiar mental make up makes the great stress of life and death decisions etc a thrill.
Another thing is that dealing with life and death etc and the great stress is dangerous for the mental health of those involved
the military in recent decades has had to seriously re-think and retrain in ways to teach infantrymen to kill, and not become degraded by this.
While once it was thought best to teach hate of the enemy etc, this turned out to be a disaster because they'd abuse the enemy, slaughter them when not needed (as enemy surrendering is the best outcome as it saves time effort and lives etc, but no one surrenders if they know they're going to be killed)
and after they left service those who'd engaged in brutal acts had major problems, often commiting violent crimes or killing themselves.
So, instead the miltary had to teach men to kill to
protect their comrades and nation, not merely to slaughter the enemy.
People are NOT natural killers, utterly not so, takes lot of trianing to make most folk capable of taking a life (thank God), but the "frenzy of the mob/group"is another issue and a dangerous one.
Doctors kill more folk than the military does by a huge margin. they know many necessary procedures and treatments have risk of death or inevitably bring death, but they must do so to ease suffering and even bring cures. Everyone eventually dies and usually a doctor has ot oversee this very painful end to another person's life.
it's very tough and hard on them. Note I'm not saying they are murdering people, no! But they know the painkillers, the surgery etc they recommend inevitably has consequences, the morphine that makes a man's last months bareable, may shorten his life by weeks. It is worthwile and legitimate, just...tragic.
What effect does this have on the doctors' mental health?
Especially since many junior doctors have been treated absolutely outrageously, forced to work 100+ hour weeks, which is unacceptable in any other job for damn good reason, AND doctors have to make life or death decisions....
The stress of those terrible work hours can destroy physical and mental health, it's literally a form of torture
IMHO, the medical profession is deeply "sick in the head", to be blunt about it.
Thus the abuse many of us have seen personally, even those witout M.E. are indicative of a profession which is criminally negligent and out of control.
To stop this, it should have, like the police, a completely neutral, outside regulatory and investigative body.
"Out of court" settlements need banned, these are used by industry and medical profession to hide grave misdeeds and crimes
see the "Hacking Scandal" in UK for what out of court settlements cover up...in the US, they have permitted many a grossly negligent doctor to go on to kill others...or prevent an honest doctor clearing his name because the hospital/insurance company wants things hushed up
Wessely's crap is going to have serious consequence. When you demonize an innocent group, inevitably lives are lost.
