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Excellent counsel, Skyrider! Good countermeasures to any stranglehold are the ability to think and the courage to choose one’s own response. I have to mention one of my favorite quotes regarding tyranny: Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even specially, the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts. The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities….from Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind