Originally Posted By: Robotic
It doesn't take any imagination to see that populations are more controlled in today's world than ever before. The trends (the need to be controlled and the abuse of controlling power) are disturbing, to say the least.


Are they? Populations have always been controlled, whether by a tribal or religious leader, or some other method. I reckon more in the past than now, especially when literacy and hence any meaningful education was in the hands of very few.