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

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

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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 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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Nobody is going to pour truth into your brain. It's something you have to find out for yourself.

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There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.

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

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