Here let thy clemency, Persephone, hold firm,
Do thou, Pluto, bring here no greater harshness.
So many thousand beauties are gone down to Avernus
Ye might let one remain above with us.
“You now have a nation of kids who don’t read. The bulk of information that enters those brains comes from television or records… so control over those sources of information is rather attractive to an authoritarian mentality.”