Education, now more than ever is simple indoctrination. Higher education is limited to the elite and their offspring. Critical thought is discouraged and punished. Elections are openly rigged and courts unabashedly do the bidding of corporate political masters. Employment has become more and more a trickle-down gift from the gods for which laborers are to be thankful and silent.
Prisons are full to the bursting point.
The majority of prisoners have violated political taboos and are technically prisoners of war. The War on Drugs. The politics of false choices continues to enslave us. It is one of the card tricks tyranny uses to levitate the currency of freedom out of the remaining pockets of human dignity.