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Yes. As Aldous Huxley pointed out: replacing God with sexual profligacy can serve the interests of the totalitarian government quite well.

14 posted on 04/10/2005 6:54:38 PM PDT by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)

Yes. As Aldous Huxley pointed out: replacing God with sexual profligacy can serve the interests of the totalitarian government quite well.

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Good one!

18 posted on 04/10/2005 6:58:28 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Never again trust Democrats with national security!)

23 posted on 04/10/2005 7:02:39 PM PDT by I got the rope

To: BenLurkin; Do not dub me shapka broham; Cornpone; Landru

Yes. As Aldous Huxley pointed out: replacing God with sexual profligacy can serve the interests of the totalitarian government quite well.

A passage from Brave New World;

The Savage: Then you think there is no God?

Mustapha Mond: No, I think there probably is one.

The Savage: Then why...?

Mustapha Mond checked him. 'But he manifests himself in different ways to different men. In pre-modern times he manifested himself as the being that's described in these books. Now...'

'How does he manifest himself now?' asked the Savage.

Mustapha Mond: Well, he manifests himself as an absence; as though he weren't there at all.

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There is, of course, more to that passage, which leads up to promiscuity, but I think the last line typed here sums it up.

220 posted on 04/14/2005 5:07:52 PM PDT by Irish_Thatcherite (I bump not ping!)

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