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no, it's more like there are any number of ways to dominate a population--direct, often violent and/or arbitrary use of state force is but one. here you have a different kind of system, one that works through co-ordination of opinion, say, in order to lull folk into giving away basic freedoms wtihout even realizing it. in a way, it is like colonialism, which was ineffecient by 1960--too much money spent on direct control--indirect is more cost-effective.
what better way to get people to submit than to give them to understand they are choosing to do it?
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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