I would not dismiss Claig and her "1984" so quickly. A one world government would be easier for those in charge. With a growing population everywhere, some people very well informed (because of the internet), articulate, more vocal and critical it must be getting more and more difficult for the great and the good.
That is why UK govts began to dumb down state education at least 35 yrs ago, especially History. If you never learn your nation’s place in history then it leaves a gap in a child’s sense of self, the individual never achieves a sense of events and why or how they came about.
The dumbing down requires not less than three generations. So if little Johnny runs to his father with a question, Dad will not know the answer. Then Johnny runs to Grandparents who also don’t know. And this will be repeated throughout Johnny’s world … there is no one who knows anything much.
The only people that will be knowledgeable will be the privately educated and those ordinary folk who have an inate wherewithal and have not succumbed to gullibility. The rest will be fodder.
We are there already. You can barely have a debate nowadays because speakers you disagree with are shouted down from the first sentence they utter. What happened to listening carefully and then putting your side?