Immobilizing
It is so important to understand that one of the primary means of
immobilizing the American people politically today is to hold them in a
state of confusion in which anything can be believed but nothing can be
known, nothing of significance that is.
And the American people are more than willing to be held in this state because to know the truth - as opposed to only believe the truth - is to face an awful terror and to be no longer able to evade responsibility. It is precisely in moving from belief to knowledge that the citizen moves from irresponsibility to responsibility, from helplessness and hopelessness to action, with the ultimate aim of being empowered and confident in one's rational powers.
--Unpublished letter, E. Martin Schotz to Vincent J. Salandria, May 14, 1992
And the American people are more than willing to be held in this state because to know the truth - as opposed to only believe the truth - is to face an awful terror and to be no longer able to evade responsibility. It is precisely in moving from belief to knowledge that the citizen moves from irresponsibility to responsibility, from helplessness and hopelessness to action, with the ultimate aim of being empowered and confident in one's rational powers.
--Unpublished letter, E. Martin Schotz to Vincent J. Salandria, May 14, 1992
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