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“The Democratic Educationalist State, a comprehensive method of indoctrination that ushers a person from primary school to the exhausted complacency of adult life where he is gradually made into a newspaper-reader rather than a citizen. This education, augmented by the hypnotism of cinema, wireless, and press allows what we call conventionally the capitalist state [b
ut] is truly an educationalist state a method of rule far more effective than subjugation by physical conquest.”

“They are drawn into one orbit or another, one of several mechanical socially organized rhythms. There is really less choice every day…the process of expressing this false personality, though devoid of meaning, is persuasive to the individual that it was the vote of a free man that was being cast, replete with the independence and free-will which was the birthright of a member of a truly democratic community. …”

“… and feeling as though they are participating in democratic freedom, people remain calm and refrain from civil disturbances. These calm citizens are then easily herded via education and the media into complacent group-personalities.”

“The first object of a person with an ambition to be free, and yet possessing none of the means exterior to himself or herself (such as money, conspicuous ability, or power) to obtain freedom, is to avoid responsibility and submit to a group-rhythm that eliminates contention and difficulty from life.”