![]() Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers. Science has explained nothing the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness. ![]() People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged. Aldous HuxleyĬhastity – the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions. Aldous HuxleyĮxperience teaches only the teachable. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness. God isn’t compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. Bully and cheat, what’s more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. One of the great attractions of patriotism – it fulfills our worst wishes. Several excuses are always less convincing than one. Can an artist do anything if he’s happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life? Aldous Huxley Nor am I the captain of my soul I am only its noisiest passenger. My fate cannot be mastered it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. ![]() Aldous Huxleyįacts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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