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. The Common Good (1998)
Such a society couldn't survive, and even if it could, it would be so full of terror and hate that any human being would prefer to live in hell. The Common Good (1998)