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Originally Posted by freebeard
Sounds like Ayn Rand is living rent-free in your head.
Agree with you poll of one. But I think they're monetising hatred instead of ignorance. a divided population would be no match for a united but ignorant one.
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* Public knowledge of certain things could be disastrous to certain parties.
* A good reason to maintain ignorance.
* Congress ( the US Senate ) learned in 1977 not to attempt to help Americans, after attacked by Washington lobbyists, who's handlers would stand to lose untold profits, should Americans get the Senate Select Committee's help.
* Non-education leads Americans to attempt to fill the void left from public educations impotence.
* And industry is at the ready, to provide the unregulated, misinformation, disinformation, whatever, to guarantee that Americans never have access to the facts. Or so bombard the media landscape that, the chances of anyone stumbling onto 'facts' is slim to none. Then, just maintain the lies.
* That's the division trick. Take the facies and turn it into easily-broken sticks.
* 'Follow the money.'