By means of ever more effective methods of mind-manipulation, the democracies will change their nature; the quaint old forms\u2014 elections, parliaments, Supreme Courts and all the rest\u2014will 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\u2014but 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.<\/p>\n
Aldous Huxley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By means of ever more effective methods of mind-manipulation, the democracies will change their nature; the quaint old forms\u2014 elections, parliaments, Supreme Courts and all<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[701],"tags":[1171,744],"class_list":["post-20278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quote-of-the-day","tag-aldous-huxley","tag-quote-of-the-day"],"yoast_head":"\n