Elite communication with the masses is really depositing communiqués meant to domesticate.

Evidence

The dominant elites, on the other hand, can—and do—think without the people—although they do not permit themselves the luxury of failing to think about the people in order to know them better and thus dominate them more efficiently. Consequently, any apparent dialogue or communication between the elites and the masses is really the depositing of “communiqués,” whose contents are intended to exercise a domesticating influence. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 426

Categorization

• XREF: Extends the chapter-2 argument correlating the banking model with dominant-elite communication, now applied to elites explicitly.