The description of our perilous times has not been better stated than by
Aldous Huxley: "Only a large-scale popular movement toward
decentralization and self-help can arrest the present tendency toward
statism... A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which
the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of
managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced,
because they love their servitude. To make them love it is the task assigned,
in present-day totalitarian states, to ministries of propaganda,
newspaper editors and schoolteachers." - Aldous Huxley - (1894-1963)
Author - Source: Forward to 'Brave New World', 1932
Perhaps Goethe put it more succinctly: "None are more hopelessly
enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."
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