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.
“Only part of us is sane: only part of us loves pleasure and the longer day of happiness, wants to live to our nineties and die in peace, in a house that we built, that shall shelter those who come after us. The other half of us is nearly mad. It prefers the disagreeable to the agreeable, loves pain and its darker night despair, and wants to die in a catastrophe that will set back life to its beginnings and leave nothing of our house save its blackened foundations.”
Rebecca West | Black Lamb and Grey Falcon