
“There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it.”
The Ultimate Revolution”. Aldous Huxley’s speech at Berkeley Language Center, http://www.informationclearinghouse.info. March 20, 1962.
For me, I realized I wasn’t “free” shortly after graduating school.
Say goodbye to The Pleasuredome
Welcome to the Desert of the Real.
Real freedom comes at a price, a rather expensive one at that.
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Yes, exactly! Real freedom means remaining an individual, whether in or outside of a collective. And most Americans, especially the young, are so caught up in being a herd member that they have no idea of who they are, individually speaking, or what true freedom really means!
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