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We all live on Jones Plantation | You can control a man with brute violence but you can never truly OWN a man until he's convinced that your word is law, and that he must obey, and is virtuous for doing so.

Pay close attention at 1 hour 42 mins 15 secs

"If you place a man in physical chains he will see he is enslaved but if you replace the physical chains with mental ones, most will never see they are still enslaved. Once you convince a man he is free there is no end to the abuse he will endure and even defend in the name of freedom. Even if some body comes along, like Samuel, and tries to tell them the truth about a situation they won't believe him. We can step in and shut them down to maintain law and order, the crowd, the crowd they'll cheer as we punish the trouble maker, the threat to the freedom they IMAGINE they have. Most people will never understand the system that controls them b/c deep, deep down inside they don't want to. It's easy to just go along with the crowd, believe the lies, deny obvious truth right in front of their face."

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