[tantivy]

The passage from Chomsky explicitly argues that institutions in the USA have been, over the last half century, restructured to indebt and disenfranchise young people while maximizing short-term material gains for the people in charge of those institutions.

The point is that "authority" has sought to produce a populace that is not capable of mustering a nuanced response to authority.

[moxious]

How do we suppose that authority got so sophisticated as to know how to do this fancy indoctrination if they themselves are a product of it?

[tantivy]

They aren't. From the passage:

"That was true as well in the United States itself when it was a much poorer country after World War II and huge numbers of students were able to enter college under the GI bill – a factor in uniquely high economic growth, even putting aside the significance in improving lives."