the democratic system was just a facade. anything that stood in the system's way was bombed or burnt with weapons created by the same rational industrial techniques that made the mass consumer goods, but the people in the west couldn't see this because they had been led into a dram that used mass consumerism and sexualized imagery to entrance and distract everyone. in reality it was an iron cage designed to look like an open and free welfare state- a full state of peace that was built really on horror and war.

adam curtis, i can't get you out of my head