"Under the relentless thrust of accelerating
over-population and increasing over-organization, and by means of ever
more effective methods of mind-manipulation, the democracies will change
their nature; the quaint old forms—elections, parliaments, Supreme Courts and all the rest—will
remain. The underlying substance will be a new kind of non-violent
totalitarianism. All the traditional names, all the hallowed slogans
will remain exactly what they were in the good old days. Democracy and
freedom will be the theme of every broadcast and editorial—but
Democracy and freedom in a strictly Pickwickian sense. Meanwhile the
ruling oligarchy and its highly trained elite of soldiers, policemen,
thought-manufacturers and mind-manipulators will quietly run the show as
they see fit."
– Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited (1958)
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