Control through Seduction

Seduction; we go there willingly. But the name of the game is control, and in the article below we see it well-versed for the first time.

The more citizens become dependent on the government, the more the government can control our lives. This was no secret to Karl Marx, Lenin, Louis Althusser and other communists, who talked at length about the role the Ideological State Apparatus - as opposed to the State Apparatus, like the police - can play in controlling a people.

Take schools for example. British Cultural Studies and Louis Althusser talked about the ideological role institutions like church and school play in determining what people think. Religious speech is hard to control, what with the written document of the Bible and all that, so places like the USSR simply did away with religion. That won't happen here, but the schools, and now health care, are ripe for the taking - and in fact have been infected to a large extent already.

Does anyone think the public school system is even good? Does anyone think that, even if it was good, that it's even-handed, politically speaking? It's not, because the liberals of the 1960s, understanding the subversive power of the Ideological State Apparatus, infected the schools in large numbers to the point where they now control universities. The same is true for the elementary and secondary schools, particularly through the the school boards who determine the curriculum. Remember, there were some districts which reduced discussion of George Washington to a footnote. This is why they're not even good; they spend too much time on ideology and not enough on facts. But schools exist now as an Ideological State Apparatus, and for better or worse we're dependent on the system.

Apply this to health care, if Obama gets his way. Imagine a people (us) dependent on the State for their health. How much dissent are you going to make if you need treatment to save your life?

The stakes are pretty high. For the individual, as high as it can get.


Romney rips Obama's domestic policies - Washington Times:

"Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney said more Americans are being seduced into relying on the government instead of on themselves, thanks to the policies of President Obama and his fellow Democrats.

Mr. Obama's policies encourage 'a growing sense of dependency and entitlements,' and are making some Americans 'less apt to create new businesses, to strike out on new adventures and pursue opportunities that have always been the source of America's vitality economically,' he said."