"As political and economic freedom diminishes," says Huxley, "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, the movies and the radio, it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate."In The Decline and Fall of the Athenian Republic, Sir Alex Fraser Tytler* wrote:
"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from great courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependence; from dependency back again to bondage."Isn't that where we are now?
Will Dave change that?
* Sir Alex Fraser Tytler (18th Century) Scottish jurist and historian
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2 comments:
Quite so. We have arrived.
Is it possible to turn back? Have enough people woken up?
For me it depends on the day and what's on the news.
But I am constantly finding new blogs such as these, so I still have hope, even on bad news days.
Cheers.
History's not high on the school agenda, so we can assume that we are doomed to repeat it.
Unless, as you say, sufficient people have woken up.
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