If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.

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

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If voting could actually change anything, it would be illegal.

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If anybody thinks they should listen to me because I'm a professor at MIT, that's nonsense. You should decide whether something makes sense by its content, not by the letters after the name of the person who says it.

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If you want to control a population... give them a God to worship.

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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 key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes decided by political and economic elites, through the technique of flood or flooding continuous distractions and insignificant information.

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The press is owned by wealthy men who only want certain things to reach the public.

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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 - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.

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

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