...the masses go mad as a herd, but only regain their senses slowly, and one by one...
“Whether
in actual fact the policy of the boot-on-the-face can go on
indefinitely seems doubtful. My own belief is that the ruling oligarchy
will find less arduous and wasteful ways of governing and of satisfying
its lust for power, and these ways will resemble those which I described
in Brave New World. Within the next generation I believe that the
world’s rulers will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis
are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and
prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied
by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging and
kicking them into obedience.” – Aldous Huxley – Letter to George Orwell about 1984 in 1949
“There will be, in the next generation or so, a
pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and
producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of
painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in
fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy
it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by
propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological
methods. And this seems to be the final revolution” ― Aldous Huxley
Authored by Jim Quinn: When I step back from the day-to-day minutia and trivialities flooding my senses from all directions and media devices, it
almost appears as if I’m living in a highly scripted reality TV program
where the characters and plots are designed to create passions and
reactions to support whatever narrative is being weaved by those
directing the show. Huxley really did foresee the future as
clearly and concisely as anyone could, decades before his dystopian
vision came to fruition.
