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The "deliberate dumbing down and creation of moral chaos" has also created a much larger shortage of 21st Century Citizens who could understand, or would bother to listen to, their Ciceros. The Public Fool System works almost perfectly to mentally and morally disarm the unsuspecting stoogents, regardless of whatever implements of battle they may eventually possess. Like sheep in a clover field, absorbed with petty distractions, they have no time for, nor interest in, the future being readied for them. They just "wanna play." So they play stupid.
"But we're honest and (at least, until our jobs went overseas) hardworking. We don't deserve to be robbed of our life savings, nor thrown out of our (overpriced) homes. It's not fa-a-a-a-air!"
Yeah, it's probably not "fa-a-a-a-air" that every picosecond of your existence, multiple teams of Rat B@st@rds the world over (especially here at home) are devoting every waking moment of their lives to taking from you everything you could ever possibly have -- honor, self-respect, progeny (and probably, oxygen), notwithstanding. But if you think that's an exaggeration, and refuse to look into the matter, you merit every last scrap of your destruction, fair or not.
With few exceptions, you Sheepizens are ruled by such throughgoing Wolves, that were they capable of being even slightly more your enemies, their oversized canine teeth would permanently overhang their lips and tongue, they'd develop hairy, upright ears, and bushy, vulpine tails, and they'd howl at the moon. What have you been smoking?
Okay, [/rant] I feel better, now!