Friday, April 15, 2016

Loving Their Servitude

Huxley to Orwell:

"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. In other words, I feel that the nightmare of Nineteen Eighty-Four is destined to modulate into the nightmare of a world having more resemblance to that which I imagined in Brave New World. The change will be brought about as a result of a felt need for increased efficiency." 

Huxley's narco-hypnosis?
http://www.intellectualtakeout.org/blog/huxley-letter-orwell-my-book-was-right


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