If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one.

 Better yet, give him none. 

Let him forget there is such a thing as war. 

If the government is inefficient, top-heavy, and tax-mad, better it be all those than that people worry over it.

 Peace

Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. 

Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. 

Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change. 

Don't give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy.

 Any man who can take a TV wall apart and put it back together again, and most men can nowadays, is happier than any man who tries to slide-rule, measure and equate the universe, which just wont be measured or equated without making man feel bestial and lonely.