If those in charge of our society - politicians corporate executives and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.
The fallback position in politics is if you don't know what you want to be about and if you don't know what your vision is go at somebody else.
I used to joke that if acting didn't work out poetry was my commonsense fallback.