Unfortunately, I bring quality thought to class, and people either don't know what to do with it, or they respond dogmatically.

THINK.  You know?  THINK.  Don't just automatically reject what I have to say because it doesn fit with your tidy world view.  UNDERSTAND where the other guy is coming from, then you come to a closer understanding of the truth.  Plus, then you can entirely eviscerate his arguments.

Oh, it CAN be done.  Don't get me wrong, its not likely, but history has had its share of examples of restrictive regiemes that banned free exchange of ideas and innovation except where sponsored by the state.  Germany around the 1930's, kristalnacht and the fabulous book burnings come to mind.  The killing fields of Cambodia is another, wherein Pol Pot executed the educated elite and shifted the entire society of cambodia to agrarainism and communisim. 

Or, the Dark Ages, wherin the aristocracy conspired with the church to stop innovation for hundreds of years.

People adjust to the reality with which they find themselves.   Disturbing but true.  I could sit here and spout multitudes of examples to whatever contrary revolutionary evidence of human spirit and innovation is provided.  It is only a myth created by Hollywood to think otherwise. 

It CAN be done.  Society, freedom, and democracy is only protected by enlightened souls who remain vigilant against the oppression of fascist regiemes.  

The sad fact is that most people don't care.