Saturday, May 08, 2010

Brave New World Revisited

In Brave New World Revisited Huxley said:
...The older dictators failed because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles and mysteries. Nor did they possess a really effective system of mind manipulation. Under a scientific dictator education will really work– with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution. There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.