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Signs (author unknown), http://inandoutofkey.calafiamusic.com/2011/01/31/signs/

Doctrinal managers should more accurately be called brain snatchers, because they have refined the art of propaganda to such an extent as to effectively control people’s thoughts (and, by extension, their behavior as well, as intended), in order to undermine democratic thoughts and habits, with far-reaching consequences. But the bottom line is that a hierarchically organized society is an undemocratic society no matter how free and fair elections are, because in a genuine democracy power and wealth are widely dispersed, not concentrated. This has nothing to do with Communism (recall that the Bolshevik system was hierarchical and excessively authoritarian, hence deeply undemocratic). It is above all a moral imperative.

There was a time when the very mention of women’s rights, concern for the environment, civil and political rights for former slaves and the working class, some measure of health protection, etc., were frowned upon and ridiculed as utopian. Yet today they are partial realities in some parts of the world. Frown and ridicule as the complacently ignorant and the voluptuous may, social, economic and cultural rights should be fought for relentlessly, as part of the struggle to extend the limited rights that have been won but are eroding in the aforementioned areas

Those who decide to become dissidents must have a tremendous amount of patience and resolve, because it often takes a long time for people to understand and appreciate the moral and intellectual basis for dissidence. Emotional appeals are likely to backfire or be short-lived. Sticking to coherent facts, sharp analysis and moral considerations are the best weapons that can be employed to keep the spirit of resistance alive, not least because defenders of the status quo do not have a leg to stand on morally and intellectually