From Allan Bloom's Closing of the American Mind

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"The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside."

IMHO now more than ever it is important to carefully examine the sources of one's news and the source's sources. It's been said that 'knowledge is power'. I'll add that 'control of knowledge is everything'.