e that the process of reeducating the masses involves awakening them to the horror that awaits those who sleep. Like pigs to slaughter, the uneducated walk into potential destruction. Knowledge is power and the ignorant masses must be made powerful. The passage from The Odyssey is a call to awaken and can be used as symbolic of what happens to those who sleep the sleep of ignorance. The initial stage for the Minister is to show the masses how they have been lulled into a false sense of security.
Shakespeare's Hamlet, caught-up in political duties and acting as liaison between Poland and Norway, soliloquizes:
What is a man/If his chief good and market of his time/
Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more:/ Sure he
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