"aberra" - 1 õppematerjal

Cialdini raamat

~ Chapter 7 SCARCITY subjugation, would passively yield as they had always done. Time magazine editor, Lance Morrow, described his own reaction similarly: "At first the coup seemed to confirm the norm. The news administered a dark shock, followed immediately by a depressed sense of resignation: of course, of course, the Russians must revert to their essential selves, to their own history. Gorbachev and glasnost were an aberra- tion; now we are back to fatal normality" (1991). But these were not to be normal times. For one thing, Gorbachev had not gov- erned in the tradition of the czars or Stalin or any of the line of oppressive post- War rulers who had not allowed even a breath of freedom to the masses. He had ceded them certain rights and choices. And when these now established freedoms were threatened, the people lashed out the way a dog would if someone tried taking a fresh bone from its mouth