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I came across the quote below.
"Control of thought is more important for governments that are free and popular than for despotic and military states. The logic is straightforward: a despotic state can control its domestic enemies by force, but as the state loses this weapon, other devices are required to prevent the ignorant masses from interfering with public affairs, which are none of their business…the public are to be observers, not participants..."
From article from Noam Chomsky 1991
Of course the media plays a big role in controlling thoughts. So are the people in countries with free governments really more free to think what they want than some non popular countries or is this 'being free' for the most part also a (controlled) thought?
"Control of thought is more important for governments that are free and popular than for despotic and military states. The logic is straightforward: a despotic state can control its domestic enemies by force, but as the state loses this weapon, other devices are required to prevent the ignorant masses from interfering with public affairs, which are none of their business…the public are to be observers, not participants..."
From article from Noam Chomsky 1991
Of course the media plays a big role in controlling thoughts. So are the people in countries with free governments really more free to think what they want than some non popular countries or is this 'being free' for the most part also a (controlled) thought?
