So, let’s see if I understand this correctly. Studying a current social trend can be dangerous if it identifies truthfully the serious impact of such a trend? Therefore, it is better to stifle the results of the study than to read about it or to study it further?
“Studying a current social trend can be dangerous if it identifies truthfully the serious impact of such a trend? Therefore, it is better to stifle the results of the study than to read about it or to study it further.”
Pretty much.
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Yep, we can now start applying Voltaire’s quote about knowing who are rulers are by whom we are prohibited to criticize.
I do remember reading elsewhere a remark by someone who lived under Communist rule: that we have silenced ourselves more effectively than the Soviets were able to silence their people.