Marat twirled his wrist as if to lasso a thought from the air. “Hoddish is a means of management, a way to cloister the culture. If you wish to control a populace, you must first isolate it. A king hopes his subjects won’t listen to his enemies; an emperor ensures that they won’t. If you take away communication, you can install yourself as the only font of truth. Disobedience begins with discourse.”
