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0 pointsa-french-anon1y ago0 comments

You're delusional. Revolt always came from people with an empty stomach, not from the comfortable leisure class.

Plus, an "educated" populace is as easy or maybe even easier to control, it's willpower against all odds that characterizes the truly ungovernable.

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arkey1y ago

So the best you can hope for, if mass control is what you want, is the combination of comfortably and leisurely uneducated people, isn't it?

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0 pointsa-french-anon1y ago0 comments

You're delusional. Revolt always came from people with an empty stomach, not from the comfortable leisure class.

Plus, an "educated" populace is as easy or maybe even easier to control, it's willpower against all odds that characterizes the truly ungovernable.

arkey1y ago

So the best you can hope for, if mass control is what you want, is the combination of comfortably and leisurely uneducated people, isn't it?

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse