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 public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.

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

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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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Neoliberal democracy. Instead of citizens, it produces consumers. Instead of communities, it produces shopping malls. The net result is an atomized society of disengaged individuals who feel demoralized and socially powerless. In sum, neoliberalism is the immediate and foremost enemy of genuine participatory democracy, not just in the United States but across the planet, and will be for the foreseeable future.

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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 general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.

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Nobody should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party.

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He who controls the media controls the minds of the public.

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The best defense against democracy is to distract people.

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