Quote by Aldous Huxley

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, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution

There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacologic

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This quote suggests that in the future, advancements in pharmacology could be used to manipulate people's emotions and create a society in which individuals willingly give up their freedoms and become content with their servitude. It predicts a form of dictatorship that operates smoothly and without resistance, as people are distracted from any inclination to rebel through propaganda, brainwashing, and the use of drugs. The speaker considers this potential development as the ultimate revolution, one that ensnares people in a painless concentration camp of their own making.

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By Aldous Huxley

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