If thought is a precursor to action, then those who control thought control people
- The name of the game is social control and rhetoric forms the rules by which players persuade and manipulate the masses
- When rhetoric is successfull, the massess will not know it's a game and the world events appear consistent with the dominant ideology (Dominant "ideas" = what they think is now you)
- To maintain control the players: (a) discredit revolutionists as deviants and non-comformists, (b) spread disinformation to mystifiy counterarguements, (c) deny statements into rumor and myth, and (d) assimilate or eliminate minoirty opinions
