Günther Anders: In order to suppress all rebellions from the outset, it is not necessary to do it brutally. Archaic methods like Hitler are definitely outdated. It is enough to create collective conditioning so powerful that the very idea of rebellion no longer even occurs to us. The best way would be to format people from birth by limiting their innate biological abilities... Then we continue conditioning by drastically reducing the level and quality of education, reducing it to a form of effortless occupation. An uneducated person has a limited horizon of thought, and the more limited his thinking is - material, mediocre, the less he can rebel. Access to knowledge must be made increasingly difficult and elitist... Let the gap between people and science deepen so that information directed at the general public is anesthetized by all possible content - especially without philosophy. Again, persuasion must be used, not direct violence: we will broadcast entertainment on television to the masses, which always flatters the emotions and instincts. We will occupy our minds with what is futile and amusing - incessant chatter and music, so as not to ask ourselves questions, not to set thinking in motion. Sexuality will be the most important - as a social anaesthetic, there is nothing better. In general, the seriousness of existence must be forbidden, everything of high value must be ridiculed, a constant apology of lightness must be maintained, so that the euphoria of advertising and consumption becomes a valuable component of the standard of human happiness and a model of freedom. This type of pressure on the collective will in itself cause such integration that the only fear (which will have to be maintained) is exclusion from the system and thus loss of access to the material conditions necessary for happiness. The mass man, thus produced, must be treated as he is: a product, a calf, and must be monitored as a herd should be. Anything that lulls his clarity, his critical mind, is socially good, while anything that could wake him up must be fought, ridiculed, stifled... Any doctrines that question the system must first be defined as subversive and terrorist, and those who support it, treated as public enemies. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4012