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A quotation from Aldous Huxley

States function as smoothly as they do, because the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.

Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) English novelist, essayist and critic
Essay (1927-10), “A Note on Eugenics,” Proper Studies (1927)

More info about this quote: wist.info/huxley-aldous/79966/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #aldoushuxley #eugenics #humancondition #humannature #materialist #obedience #passivity #people #population #servitude

#USPol #Amerika Explainer . Used by the #beatniks #poets in the '60's to refer to the #capitalist #materialist #militarische #industrial #complex . The #hegemony that still exists #USA today. Still the #evil_empire as exemplified by #meta & #suckabuck The mighty $ . #notinmyname #antifa ✊🏾💖🕊💖🇪🇺 #Palky

#Epicurus, the precursor to #Lucretius in the #materialist #philosophical tradition, believed that we need knowledge only because without it we are unhappy. I find it wonderful that following one's curiosity to bring oneself #joy is fundamental to the roots of the Western philosophical tradition that led to #science.

Dean Dettloff (#Marxist #Christian, https://deandettloff.com/) writes in response to having just watched the #Hillsong #documentary. He calls for a #materialist critique of #Evangelicalism.

I agree. It would be a valuable project in more ways than one.

Screengrabs below from the birdsite. (apologies if that offends :blobaww:)