Before Huxley German writer and thinker Goethe believed that ; 'None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe that they are free.'
Aldous Huxley believed that 'slaves could be happy being slaves; 'Only a large-scale popular movement toward decentralization and self-help can arrest the present tendency toward statism. A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude. To make them love it is the task assigned, in present-day totalitarian states, to ministries of propaganda, newspaper editors and schoolteachers.... The greatest triumphs of propaganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.'
And William S. Burroughs believed that; 'A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on."
A. Huxley said; 'You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad "''...
Yeahhh, Life is difficult!;((( but i care and love truth, anyway!:) as H. D. Thoreau said; 'Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.'
Franz Kafka; It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.
( I said that; ' It is often safer to be idiot than to be thinker'....:)
Voltaire ; It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
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9 minutes onwards. 'Drugs to change our state of mind'. And a little beforehand, 'technology is neutral in itself'. This ought to be questioned: I think Huxley was just being a gentleman by agreeing that it's 'neutral'. Part of the problem is that by the time we notice there's a problem with any new technology, we've already bought into it. Then it's pretty easy to say 'you thought life was better before? But you use it too so you're a hypocrite or a lunatic or probably both. I have to admit that a fighter jet is an impressive and beautiful machine, for instance. And then you wonder about what it's for. And you may also wonder why the number of psychological disorders is increasing all the time (they just vote them into existence). Some are real but how can 'new' ones arise? And then the disconnect between what people say, one on one, and what our 'representatives' dare to say above the howls of the audience. It's a crazy world - maybe if we stay crazy, we'll get through it?
P.S. That was kind of funny, given the subject. It said 'please prove you're not a robot' :)
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