You will never be pretty enough, skinny enough, smart enough, successful enough, or famous enough for the media
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__ven encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there__ 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.
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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__ven encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there__ 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.
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