Thomas Jefferson on CFR #1

 Thomas Jefferson on CFR and Media Influence

Were a council to arise, self-appointed and tasked with shaping the dialogues of a nation, one must ask whether its purpose be to enlighten or obscure. If its influence extends not only to the content of speech but to the very medium through which it flows, then it is not mere discourse they shape, but the architecture of thought itself.

The Council on Foreign Relations, with its far-reaching grasp upon narratives and its quiet orchestration of dialogues, bears resemblance to the centralization of power against which I long ago cautioned. Power, unchecked and unseen, is the most perilous to liberty, for it robs the citizen of his agency to reason freely.

Beware, I would counsel, of those who control the medium of thought, for they may yet control the thoughts themselves. A republic's strength lies in the free exchange of ideas, unclouded by manipulation or artifice

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