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

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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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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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As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.

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

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

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

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