>Robert Alan Dahl

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A society employs many techniques: hero worship; history; story; ceremonials; parades; oratory; music. In modern times, the public-school system, particularly in the United States, has become a powerful vehicle of social indoctrination in the myths necessary to polyarchy. The theater, movies, books, magazines, newspapers puor upon the individual a steady stream of admonition serving to distunguish acceptable from unacceptable political behavior. In the ubiquitous voluntary clubs characteristic of the United States youth and adults learn what political behaviors is taboo, what is approved and rewarded. In these ways individuals are indoctrinated with an unreasoned inner convision of the fitness and rightness of polytical systems.

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