And at the same time, deliberately ensuring their working class citizens don’t have access to proper understandings of materialism and critical thinking skills ensures they have no way to accurately gauge the flood of information, so they just choose whatever answers feel good or familiar, which just so happen to be the ones most supporting the status quo. Some people don’t fall for that of course, but most of those people will fumble blindly in the flood of information and are just as likely to find something toxic and dangerous (like far right ideologies).
And at the same time, deliberately ensuring their working class citizens don’t have access to proper understandings of materialism and critical thinking skills ensures they have no way to accurately gauge the flood of information, so they just choose whatever answers feel good or familiar, which just so happen to be the ones most supporting the status quo. Some people don’t fall for that of course, but most of those people will fumble blindly in the flood of information and are just as likely to find something toxic and dangerous (like far right ideologies).