I should know that song. Yes, it’s true. When people wanted enough freedom that they couldn’t be enslaved or killed or repressed, new modes of control naturally developed to try to impose forms of mental slavery so they would accept a framework of indoctrination and wouldn’t raise any questions. If you can trap people into not noticing, let alone questioning, crucial doctrines, they’re enslaved. They’ll essentially follow orders as if there was a gun pointed at them. In some of your talks, when people ask you what to do in response to the problems you discuss, I have heard you tell people they could start by turning off their television set. Television drums certain fixed boundaries of thought into your head, which certainly dulls the mind. The doctrines are not formally stated. It’s not the Catholic Church: “You have to believe this. You have to read this every day, say this every day.” It’s just presupposed. You presuppose a framework, and then people just come to accept it.
