Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish. The real tedium, deep tedium, is seasoned with terror and with death.
- Saul Bellow
The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes decided by political and economic elites, through the technique of flood or flooding continuous distractions and insignificant information.
- Noam Chomsky
The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation.
- Charles Horton Cooley
...they make us dependent on a social system that exploits our energies for its own purposes....If a person learns to enjoy and find meaning in the ongoing stream of experience, in the process of living itself, the burden of social controls automatically falls from one's shoulders.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The essence of socialization is to make people dependent on social controls, to have them respond predictably to rewards and punishments.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The last great attempt to free consciousness from the domination of impulses and social controls was psychoanalysis; as Freud pointed out, the two tyrants that fought for control over the mind were the id and the superago, the first a servant of a genes, the second a lackey of society - both representing the "Other".
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The public school system is not about educating black children. Never has been. Inner-city schools are about social control. Period. They're operated as holding pensminiature jails, really. It's only when black children start breaking out of their pens and bothering white people that society even pays any attention to the issue of whether these children are being educated.
- Barack Obama
Healthy" and "diseased," as Susan Sontag points out...are often subjective judgments that society makes for its own purposes. Women have long been defined as sick as a means of subjecting them to social control.
- Naomi Wolf
- Saul Bellow
The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes decided by political and economic elites, through the technique of flood or flooding continuous distractions and insignificant information.
- Noam Chomsky
The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation.
- Charles Horton Cooley
...they make us dependent on a social system that exploits our energies for its own purposes....If a person learns to enjoy and find meaning in the ongoing stream of experience, in the process of living itself, the burden of social controls automatically falls from one's shoulders.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The essence of socialization is to make people dependent on social controls, to have them respond predictably to rewards and punishments.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The last great attempt to free consciousness from the domination of impulses and social controls was psychoanalysis; as Freud pointed out, the two tyrants that fought for control over the mind were the id and the superago, the first a servant of a genes, the second a lackey of society - both representing the "Other".
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The public school system is not about educating black children. Never has been. Inner-city schools are about social control. Period. They're operated as holding pensminiature jails, really. It's only when black children start breaking out of their pens and bothering white people that society even pays any attention to the issue of whether these children are being educated.
- Barack Obama
Healthy" and "diseased," as Susan Sontag points out...are often subjective judgments that society makes for its own purposes. Women have long been defined as sick as a means of subjecting them to social control.
- Naomi Wolf
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