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Doctor Homeslice holds court on school dress codes. If I sleep in a garbage can, why shouldn't I dress like it? If people don't like me the way I am, the hell with 'em.
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