Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think.

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Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?

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The goal is to keep the bewildered herd bewildered. It's unnecessary for them to trouble themselves with what's happening in the world. In fact, it's undesirable - if they see too much of reality they may set themselves to change it.

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It takes one minute to tell a lie, and an hour to refute it.

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That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.

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The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.

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Governments will use whatever technology is available to combat their primary enemy - their own population.

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Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think.

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Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.

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The world is a very puzzling place. If you're not willing to be puzzled, you just become a replica of someone else's mind.

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