“Happy slaves of the state: now that describes the general American population based on their long-term voting.
That is the aim of socialism: It embeds dependency in the masses. It is why we have to destroy the public school system and Common Core and remove socialism from our country. It is impossible to NOT have a dependency mindset, if raised in such an evil system which embeds ideology in children.
That is why Shafarevich stated and Solzhenitsyn reiterated, that Socialism rots the Soul.
From Shafarevich’s book, “The Socialist Phenomenon” he states (forward by Solzhenitsyn): The reason for the collapse of the Inca empire must be apparently sought elsewhere—in the complete atrophy of individual initiative, in the ingrained habit of acting on at the direction of officials, in the spirit of stagnation and apathy.”
He adds, “weakening of” and “complete destruction of family relationships”—”complete regimentation of life”, etc.
It reminds me of the operant conditioning in “Common Core” which intentionally destroys Virtue and undermines the Family using Fichte/Wundtian Psychology, which will result in that “Inca” Mindset.
Fichte 1810 on “Prussian education (which we adopted) when we destroyed Classical Education (tools for critical thinking):
“Education should aim at destroying free will so that after pupils are thus schooled they will be incapable throughout the rest of their lives of thinking or acting otherwise than as their school masters would have wished ... The social psychologist of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an unshakable conviction that snow is black. When the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of education for more than one generation will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen.”