It Takes A Lot Of Education To Keep Us This Stupid

The fact that the propagandists have to work so hard to keep our society this insane means the natural gravitational pull is toward sanity. They have to educate us into crazier and crazier ways of thinking from the moment we go to school until we die, because otherwise we'll collectively awaken and shake off their shackles.

It takes a lot of educating to keep us this stupid.

You think you're struggling? You should see the people trying to manufacture consent for a status quo that is both plainly insane and self-evidently unsustainable. They're the ones doing all the heavy lifting in this struggle. They're the ones fighting gravity.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Article with links and sources: https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/it-takes-a-lot-of-education-to-keep