The truth of this quote exists on two levels. The common interpretation is that those who are stupid must be ignorant and, being stupid, ignorance is all they can exhibit, so that state of ignorance will be chronic and likely permanent among stupid individuals because they lack the intellect to rise above their deficiencies. But there is a second level that speaks to a deeper problem. If people's minds can be manipulated to make them stupid, this explains why they cannot escape a state of ignorance if they are trapped by stupidity that prevents change and growth even through learning. There are people who have developmental impairments of an organic nature, such as through injury or malformation of the central nervous system, but there are also known windows of opportunity during the early formative years, and if the young are not stimulated and supported in a healthy way that encourages growth and learning, that window of opportunity may close so that significant learning that would create the possibility of good academic performance gets much harder and may, in fact, be impossible to attain, to anything like the same degree because they have been truly held back by being sidelined for too long at a critical period.
The interlopers can constrain young minds by creating a kind of stultifying brain fog. This can affect people of all ages, but when done on the young will decrease their IQ and their general interest in anything. So a generation of dullards can be the end result if this is applied systematically throughout society. It is an example of the consequence of your subjugation that people do not recognize there is a problem, and would very likely be unable to envision even the possibility of this paradigm being valid and true. That resistance speaks to an inability for the mind to be flexible and creative in seeing new possibilities even when pointed out. When ideas fall on deaf ears because the mind is closed, that is the consequence of subjugation to create a state of stupidity, at some level, so people are completely unable to appreciate the potential importance of key information of a disturbing nature that could be revealing the true reason for difficulties in society. When captured by complacency and an inability to be even curious or interested in an unusual idea, it becomes quite easy to simply turn away without even any reaction, and this is, in fact, a common phenomenon, that ideas will simply bounce off as though there is a shield around a person's brain preventing new information from penetrating and being recognized as such—it will simply not compute and will be disregarded.
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