The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that … - Allan Bloom

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The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.

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