#Cdnpoli #Uspoli #Dictatorship
“The perfect dictatorship would have the appearance of a democracy, but would basically be a prison without walls in which the prisoners would not even dream of escaping.
It would essentially be a system of slavery where, through consumption and entertainment, the slaves would love their servitudes.” ~ I understand this is a misquote attributed to Aldous Huxley
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This is in all likelyhood not a #Huxley quote.
Decades after writing #BraveNewWorld,
#AldousHuxley said the following at symposium named “A Pharmacologic Approach to the Study of the Mind” which was held at the University of California's San Francisco Medical Center on Jan. 25-27, 1959:
“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..."
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"...painless #ConcentrationCamp 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.”
Ty, learned a few things I did not know .
Ty, is a thank you as I updated my toot to say it was a misquote
Pat
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