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

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The best defense against democracy is to distract people.

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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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If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.

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

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Anyone who studies declassified documents soon becomes aware that government secrecy is largely an effort to protect policy makers from scrutiny by citizens, not to protect the country from enemies.

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

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

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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 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.

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