always be those whose instinct inclines towards submission to authority, who are happy to shift beliefs in accordance with the fashion or decrees from above. Orwell called this the ‘gramophone mind’, content to play the record of the moment whether or not one is in agreement. It is an enervated and dehumanised public that acquiesces to the paternalism of their leaders. By contrast, to resist state censorship is to take a wrecking ball to the panopticon. As Eduard Bernstein so succinctly put it, ‘men have heads’, and we only enfeeble ourselves if we neglect to use them.
