From: "John Hurst", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Forty-two years ago, in 1958, a collection of essays by a Brit, Aldous
Huxley, was published under the name 'Brave New World Revisited'.
A short, verbatim excerpt consisting of 6 sentences from his
concluding chapter is below:
"We may expect to see in the democratic countries a reversal of the
process which transformed England into a democracy, while retaining
all of the outward forms of a monarchy. Under the relentless thrust
of accelerating over-population 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."
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