abrutissement

Il voyait que beaucoup de jeunes, même s’ils semblent différents, finissent en réalité par se ressembler, en courant derrière ce que les puissants leur imposent à travers les mécanismes de consommation et d’abrutissement.
He saw that many young people, wanting to be different, really end up being like everyone else, running after whatever the powerful set before them with the mechanisms of consumerism and distraction.
Lorsque son tour est venu, il était dans un abrutissement tel que je n'ai rien pu faire pour le réveiller.
When his turn came, he was in a stupor and I could do nothing to rouse him.
Ainsi, point de législation extérieure et point d’autorité, l’une étant d’ailleurs inséparable de l’autre, et toutes les deux tendant à l’asservissement de la société et à l’abrutissement des législateurs eux-mêmes.
Consequently, no external legislation and no authority - one, for that matter, being inseparable from the other, and both tending to the servitude of society and the degradation of the legislators themselves.
L’abrutissement des masses est le produit du manque d’investissement dans le système éducatif.
The stultification of the masses is the product of a lack of investment in the education system.
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