Just remember, there is an unstated premise here. For the political class and the decision makers they have to provide them some tolerable sense of reality, although they also have to instill the proper beliefs. The media, the schools, and popular culture have to be divided. So we need something to tame the bewildered herd, and that something is this new revolution in the art of democracy: the manufacture of consent. Correspondingly, you don’t allow the bewildered herd to become participants in action. You don’t give a three-year-old that kind of freedom because the three-year-old doesn’t know how to handle that freedom. It’s pretty much the same logic that says that it would be improper to let a three-year-old run across the street. We have to tame the bewildered herd, not allow the bewildered herd to rage and trample and destroy things. Therefore, it would be immoral and improper to permit them to do this. If they try to participate in managing their own affairs, they're just going to cause trouble. The compelling moral principle is that the mass of the public are just too stupid to be able to understand things. There’s even a kind of compelling moral principle behind it.
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