“The ambition of Caesar and of Napoleon pales before that which could not rest until it had seized the minds of men and controlled even their unborn thoughts.”
Robert W. Chambers, The King In Yellow: Repairer of Reputations
“Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.”
Adlai Stevenson
Public mind\purse is itself a useful corruption to the corrupt, both corrupter & corrupted (who are dance partners) . There is no such thing. It’s a construct, made of straw, that facilitates the hay-making. Which is to say hay-taking. Hive mind is flattery via erasure, or covering up, of the suffix “lessness.” It also makes a religion-claiming-morality out of utilitarianism, that corrupt & embezzling accounting method that apologizes for & reinforces rationalization of ‘greatest good for greatest #’ – thereby circling right back to “public mind\purse.” Matrix & borg.