“IN a few years, no doubt, marriage licenses will be sold like dog licenses, good for a period of twelve months, with no law against changing dogs or keeping more than one animal at a time. As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends compensatingly to increase. And the dictator (unless he needs cannon fodder and families with which to colonize empty or conquered territories) will do well to encourage that freedom. In conjunction with the freedom to daydream under the influence of dope and movies and the radio, it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.”

– Aldous Huxley, in the foreword to ”Brave New World”

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Kyle writes:

I’ve often wondered if Aldous Huxley was as perceptive as people make him out to be or if he was simply conditioning readers to what he knew was coming, his medium being literary fiction. His family rubbed elbows with some of the leading “social engineers” of the time; his brother, Julian, was one of the leading eugenicists in the world and purveyors of population control. Huxley’s vision of the future in Brave New World seems to be more accurate than Orwell’s–at least in the Western world. He seemed to be a spoiled oligarch whose pedigree allowed him to waste away in the “study” of psychedelic drugs.

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