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How to Turn Free Citizens Into Compliant Serfs

How to Turn Free Citizens Into Compliant Serfs
A driver holds out a sign as hundreds of people gather to protest the lockdown in spite of shelter-in-place rules still being in effect at California's state capitol building in Sacramento, Calif., on April 20, 2020. Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images
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Free citizens have minds of their own and want to pursue their lives as they see fit. This is inconvenient for the elites, who wish to be in charge of everyone’s lives so that they can show their superiority and gain benefit for themselves and their friends. So the elites do everything they can to suppress citizens and turn them into compliant serfs.

Philip Carl Salzman
Philip Carl Salzman
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Philip Carl Salzman is professor emeritus of anthropology at McGill University, senior fellow at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, fellow at the Middle East Forum, and Past President of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East.
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