“Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people want to think only what they are supposed to think, and this they consider freedom.” Oswald Spengler (1880-1936), The Decline of the West, 1926
Not a coincidence, of course. The Anglo urge to rule without seeming to rule lead them to ways of controlling thought without seeming to. This achieved, thought could be 'freed.'