Bread and circuses.

There is no "best interests" for any given populace; what's best for Joe CEO may not benefit me at all. Don't ever cede jurisdiction over your own fate to someone else--especially a group of officious administrators! What are you, then? Who are you allowed to be?

"...for knowledge is the image of existence..."; i.e, our perceptions define our selves and the world in which we place those selves.