I think attitude Sini shares is why zombies are such a staple of popular culture these days. Billionaires pop a a few million in the media machine when their agenda for the rest of us gets challenged, DailyKosers respond by going vapid , extending their arms and howling to eat the brains of the Establishment enemies.

On a subconscious level, most people get it.

For who could be free when every other man's humour might domineer over him? - John Locke (2nd Treatise, sect 57)