My readings lately have taken me back to the immediate postwar era, when CIA was just underway and one of its first goals was to train and contain the American intellectual class. It wasn’t hard – intellectuals are normally driven by an aversion or ordinary people, and are easily bought with money and a taste of power.
The task at hand was censorship, but done in such a way that it would not be called that. It was shaking hands with the velvet glove.
Piece of Mindful 