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

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

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You are responsible for the predictable consequences of your actions.

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Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.

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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

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The point of public relations slogans like "Support Our Troops" is that they don't mean anything ... that's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody is going to be against and I suppose everybody will be for, because nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything. But its crucial value is that it diverts your attention from a question that does mean something, do you support our policy? And that's the one you're not allowed to talk about.

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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 indoctrination is so deep that educated people think they’re being objective.

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