Insight: Knowledge as the enemy of Power

It's no wonder that the intellectual is always the first target of an incumbent power.

Knowledge is the enemy of power, there for the wielder of knowledge, the intellectual, is the enemy of Power.

These are the people who see things for what they are: "The emperor is not wearing any clothes!"

To combat this, Power limits the opportunities of the intellectual to offer an effective alternative view.

Power drip feeds the masses with comforting trinkets to keep them from thinking: saccharine mass media, Organised Sport in fact anything the masses can submerge themselves in rather than actually seeing things for what they are.