It's more subordination than sense of duty. When things go south and you are lost and confused, you listen to the one who sounds most confident in what they are saying, and that often times is something along the lines of "the demon spawn on the other side that caused all the hardships you faced till today, will not stop at anything to destroy everything that is human, therefore we must spare no efforts to eradicate it", of course twisted and disguised in some sort of an acceptable way (simplest form would be "they think this way"). Can't really fight for something, can only fight against something. Any doubts will be dismissed, because we are such control freaks that in our confusion we would much rather accept that everything is black and white and that someone else (our great leader) sees those colors, than that we're in a mess that no one can figure out. Afterwards we rationalize and glorify to save our faces. The sad part is that those who didn't(won't) behave in this way, probably didn't(won't) survive for long either. That's the beauty and wonder of natural selection for ya. The bittersweet part is that we have our ways around it, our thoughts and ideas surviving and multiplying despite (and sometimes through) even our most inglorious deaths.
@georgia@dickkickextremist.xyz
