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Why Comfortable People Don’t Revolt: Propaganda, Debt, and Control

The question serious analysts must ask is not "why do governments expand?" That is self-evident, a structural feature of any bureaucracy. The appropriate question is "why do populations permit it?" The answer requires understanding the propaganda apparatus that Western states have built, refined, and now operate at industrial scale.

Why Comfortable People Don’t Revolt: Propaganda, Debt, and Control

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The question serious analysts must ask is not "why do governments expand?" That is self-evident, a structural feature of any bureaucracy.

The appropriate question is "why do populations permit it?" The answer requires understanding the propaganda apparatus that Western states have built, refined, and now operate at industrial scale.

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