However hard they try, men cannot create a social organism, they can only create an organization. In the process of trying to create an organism they will merely create a totalitarian despotism.
Aldous Huxley
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05SEP2022 – Quote of the Day
To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.
Aldous Huxley
04SEP2022 – Quote of the Day
What the cinema can do better than literature or the spoken drama is to be fantastic.
Aldous Huxley
03SEP2022 – Quote of the Day
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
Aldous Huxley
02SEP2022 – Quote of the Day
Men show at least as much zeal in mischief as in well doing, in folly as in wisdom. The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people that they will have a chance of maltreating someone. Men must be bribed to build up and do good by the offer of an opportunity to hurt and pull down. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior ‘righteous indignation’ — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.
Aldous Huxley
01SEP2022 – Quote of the Day
What the cinema can do better than literature or the spoken drama is to be fantastic.
Aldous Huxley
31AUG2022 – Quote of the Day
Men show at least as much zeal in mischief as in well doing, in folly as in wisdom. The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people that they will have a chance of maltreating someone. Men must be bribed to build up and do good by the offer of an opportunity to hurt and pull down. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior ‘righteous indignation’ — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.
Aldous Huxley
30AUG2022 – Quote of the Day
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley Precisely Foretold the Deep State 64 Years Ago
“In 1958, Aldous Huxley foresaw a congestion of power able to shape and defy popular will. “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,” he predicted. “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.”
The changes, according to the author of Brave New World, would be almost imperceptible. “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,” he continued. “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.””
How’s that for hitting the bulls-eye from more than half a century in the past.
11JUL2018 – Quote of the Day
Determining who has style may be too subjective, but I get his meaning about men who have lived and thought as opposed to just scribblers.
“To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.”
Aldous Huxley