
A guy walks into a bar in Cork City, and asks the bartender, "What's the fastest way to get to Dublin?"
"Are you walking or driving?" asks the bartender.
"Driving," says the guy.
"That's the fastest way," says the bartender.
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