How Do We Control the Herd?

There are philosophical arguments you could make and defend, without being evil necessarily, that make a strong case for controlling what the average person consumes. So again, why would doing this benefit anyone at all? Litman says, these ideas are nothing new. They were used with linen. They were articulated by marks. The only thing, relatively new here, is that these same tactics are now starting to be applied to the democratic societies in the early twentieth century.