>Their power and control relies heavily on an uneducated population.
Gonna disagree with ya there, Q.
It's a certain type of education that promotes certain modes of thought and their agenda.
C.S. Lewis summed it up very well in essays and fiction. Go read The Abolition of Man or That Hideous Strength.
"When did you meet a workman who believes the papers? He takes it for granted that they're all propaganda and skips the leading articles. He buys his paper for the football results…
But the educated public, the people who read the highbrow weeklies, don't need reconditioning. They're all right already. They'll believe anything."
That Hideous Strength actually does a great build-up to show how an ambitious man of moderate talents who thinks he's better, gets pulled into a dark occult organization with designs on world domination.