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Manipulation of consciousness. How are present democracies different from former monarchies?"
...people are poor and blank. ...
On a blank sheet of paper free
from any mark, the freshest
and most beautiful pictures
can be painted." (Mao Zedong)One of the primary tasks for leaders and ruling classes is to upkeep their regime so that it lasted for as long as possible. This, in the first place, requires stability and calm in the country, better – docility of the people. In distant past, when all countries lived under autocratic regimes (various kinds of monarchy), and in more recent historical epochs, when clergy or party leaders where at the helm, the main instrument for maintaining order were special military formations, police and appropriate legal, judicial and penitentiary systems...
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