Terms like ‘puppet’ and ‘slave,’ while not exactly complimentary, express specific concepts, rather than just being generic insults. If you imagine an obligation to bow to another person (or group of people), and pay tribute to him (or them), then you have the mindset of a slave. And if your words and thoughts are basically put into you by a controller, you are acting like a puppet. The fact that statists don’t like those qualities being identified doesn’t make them untrue. — Larken Rose