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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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The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.
If voting could actually change anything, it would be illegal.
If you want to control a population... give them a God to worship.
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It takes one minute to tell a lie, and an hour to refute it.
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