A truly prescient quote. Desribes Amerika in 2013 perfectly. The Republic is dead. Welcome to slavery.
Where’s the option for “neither”? The older and wiser I get, the more I realize Obama will be remembered as neither tyrant nor silver-tongued demon, but with a resounding “meh”.
At least in “Brave New World” their dystopia worked - materially anyway.
Yes, we will continue to have the sexual and entertainment distractions, but you will find that everything from food to fuel to health-care will become increasingly expensive and hard-to-find.
It feels more like “Stranger in a Strange Land”.
I say it’s both, because we already have Big Brother making sure we’re safe.
I’d also point out that we already have “a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude”, affirming the brave new world we live in.
It’s called Ritalin for ADHD. Made to keep those uppity young boys in line.
Their still working on a pill for the nefarious “autism spectrum disorders”.
It’s my sense that folks w/ADHD or ASD traits are the most likely personality types to resist authority, hence the focus.