You learn in school about how the intelligentsia and elite classes would be harnessed by the likes of Mussolini and Hitler to provide intellectual backing that would sway the masses into blind support. But I won't forget witnessing this phenomenon engulf Ethiopia. It completely shattered everything I believed in.
Religious fathers who normally preach forgiveness calling on the army to "crush" the rebels.
Legal experts lecturing us on how an army massacre was somehow legal.