The pen is mightier than the sword. What is more important, the gun or the mind controlling the hand that pulls the trigger?
Control what people think, and people can be used as a weapon. Think Eddie Murphy in Trading Places trying to trick people on the street for money so he may survive, and understand that the wisest of men have already studied this field to its maximum potential in being implemented as a mechanism of government design that in turn tricks the mass population into thinking things that are not the truth…again, in mass.
Do you understand?