Outlaw’s Reviews > Brave New World Revisited > Status Update
Outlaw
is 75% done
"But how, it may be asked, will the dictator get his subjects to take the pills that will make them think, feel & behave in the ways he finds desirable? […] Today alcohol & tobacco are available, & people spend considerably more on these very unsatisfactory euphorics, pseudo-stimulants & sedatives than they are ready to spend on the education of their children."
— Jun 12, 2014 07:37PM
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Outlaw
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"It is perfectly possible for a man to be out of prison, & yet not free- to be under no physical constraint & yet to be a psychological captive, compelled to think, feel & act as the representatives of the national State, or of some private interest within the nation, want him to think, feel & act."
— Jun 14, 2014 05:05AM
Outlaw
is finished
"It is perfectly possible for a man to be out of prison, & yet not free- to be under no physical constraint & yet to be a psychological captive, compelled to think, feel & act as the representatives of the national State, or of some private interest within the nation, want him to think, feel & act."
— Jun 14, 2014 05:05AM
Outlaw
is 50% done
"Philosophy teaches us to feel uncertain about the things that seem to us self-evident.
Propaganda, on the other hand, teaches us to accept as self-evident matters about which it would be reasonable to suspend our judgement or feel doubt."
— May 31, 2014 09:08PM
Propaganda, on the other hand, teaches us to accept as self-evident matters about which it would be reasonable to suspend our judgement or feel doubt."
Outlaw
is 25% done
"The really hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. `Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does.'"
— May 29, 2014 08:28PM
