You might appreciate this quote that was slapped on one of my stories today:
'Under the relentless thrust of accelerating overpopulation and increasing over-organization, and by means of ever more effective methods of mind-manipulation, the democracies will change their nature; the quaint old forms -- elections, parliaments, Supreme Courts and all the rest -- will remain. The underlying substance will be a new kind of non-violent totalitarianism. All the traditional names, all the hallowed slogans will remain exactly what they were in the good old days. Democracy and freedom will be the theme of every broadcast and editorial -- but democracy and freedom in a strictly Pickwickian sense. Meanwhile the ruling oligarchy and its highly trained elite of soldiers, policemen, thought-manufacturers and mind-manipulators will quietly run the show as they see fit.'
You might appreciate this quote that was slapped on one of my stories today:
'Under the relentless thrust of accelerating overpopulation and increasing over-organization, and by means of ever more effective methods of mind-manipulation, the democracies will change their nature; the quaint old forms -- elections, parliaments, Supreme Courts and all the rest -- will remain. The underlying substance will be a new kind of non-violent totalitarianism. All the traditional names, all the hallowed slogans will remain exactly what they were in the good old days. Democracy and freedom will be the theme of every broadcast and editorial -- but democracy and freedom in a strictly Pickwickian sense. Meanwhile the ruling oligarchy and its highly trained elite of soldiers, policemen, thought-manufacturers and mind-manipulators will quietly run the show as they see fit.'
Brave New World Revisited ~ Aldous Huxley
It’s definitely a book that should be quoted as much as Nineteen Eighty Four inevitably is.
Gabor Maté is a worthwhile interviewee / speaker but Lebedev wouldn't be the host of choice.
Precisely. I am interested in what Maté has to say but not what Lebedev has to ask.
Guys like Lebedev and Musk remind me of Bill Hicks’s old rant about “fevered egos” and the price they extract from us
Bingo.
Super piece, Mic; will share on X
Thanks, Liz.
Hippo bathday!!
Stephen Fry continues to slide down in my estimation.