...have suddenly become a popular topic here. I'm therefore reposting the link to the dancing administrators.
Thanks to Joe Thomas at Shut Up and Teach. Where he found it I have no idea, but check 'em out.
Snake
4 hours ago
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.
~Noam Chomsky