“The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.”
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Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.
The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom - along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.
