So few can make fools of so many…

“Assemble a mob of men and women previously conditioned by a daily reading of newspapers; treat them to amplified band music, bright lights … and in next to no time you can reduce them to a state of almost mindless sub-humanity. Never before have so few been in a position to make fools, maniacs, or criminals of so many”

(Aldous Huxley – The Devils of Loudun, 1952).