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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

Aldous Huxley
Love, Technology, Thinking

Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.

Aldous Huxley
Power, Technology, Political
Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Aldous Huxley
Mean, Technology, Progress
Aldous Huxley (1937). “Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization”, p.9, Transaction Publishers

[...] Technology has tended to devaluate the traditional vision-inducing materials. The illumination of a city, for example, was once a rare event, reserved for victories and national holidays, for the canonization of saints and the crowning of kings. Now it occurs nightly and celebrates the virtues of gin, cigarettes and toothpaste.

Aldous Huxley
Kings, Holiday, Technology
Aldous Huxley (1956). “Heaven and hell”

Chaos and ineptitude are anti-human; but so too is a superlatively efficient government, equipped with all the products of a highly developed technology.

Aldous Huxley
Technology, Government, Ineptitude
Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

Applied Science is a conjuror, whose bottomless hat yields impartially the softest of Angora rabbits and the most petrifying of Medusas.

Aldous Huxley
Technology, Yield, Medusa
Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

Plasticene and self-expression will not solve the problems of education. Nor will technology and vocational guidance; nor the classics and the Hundred Best Books.

Aldous Huxley
Education, Book, Technology

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