...in a downright despotism opposition is dangerous whether the despotism is official or whether it is unofficial...
A community rates low on the Information scale when the press, radio, and other channels of communication are controlled by only a few people and when citizens have to accept what they are told.
See how a community trains its teachers
...these students are being taught to accept uncritically whatever they are told. Questions are not encouraged.
And if books and newspapers and the radio [and facebook and youtube and...] are officially controlled the people will read and accept exactly what the few in control want them to. Government censorship is one form of control. The newspaper that breaks the government censorship rule can be suspended. It is also possible for newspapers and other lines of communication to be controlled by private interests...
Democracy (Encyclopedia Britannica film, circa 1946)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx25aMPvbJo
The newspapers of a real democracy meet these tests...
Newspaper checks.
1. Balance of coverage
2. Disclosure of source
3. Competence of staff
That’s a great post and great info and I always appreciate what you send me.
ANOTHER problem today is that at 18, (i’m 52 now) I was a Man.
An immature one, but a Man.
Not a boy who could be told what to believe.
The dissolution of the family and to some extent women entering the workforce and getting nannies or daycare is to blame.
My values were solid by 18.
These kids today are lost
And YES, even in Catholic high school there was a nun who kept saying great things about the USSR. I told my parents who told the principal.
The nun figured out it was me and I was only like 10 so I was ####ed lol. But even at that age i knew what was going on
And i’m just about average on the spectrum.