Book: Brave new world. Page 5

As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends to increase as compensation. And the dictator (unless he needs cannon fodder or in families for the colonization of the deserted or conquered territories) will do the clever, encouraging sexual freedom. In combination with the freedom to daydream under the influence of drugs, movies, and radio programs it will help to reconcile his subjects to slavery, to which those are doomed.

The greatest triumphs of propaganda achieved through the implementation, but by default. Great is the power of truth, but more powerful - from a practical point of view, a default of truth.

Of course, the new totalitarianism does not have to resemble the old ones. Control by clubs and firing squads, artificial famine, mass imprisonment in prisons and mass deportations is not merely inhumane (nobody now not particularly concerned about humanity), but is clearly ineffective, and in our age of advanced technology inefficiency, neproizvodstvennoj was a sin against the Holy Spirit. In a totalitarian state, truly effective, all-powerful cohort of political bosses and subordinate the army of administrators will rule a population composed of slaves, which ought not to be forced, because they love their servitude.

Probably all governments of the world will be completely or almost completely totalitarian even before wznoszenie atomic energy; and that they will be totalitarian during and after wznoszenie, seems almost undeniable. Only large-scale popular movement toward decentralization and self-help can stop the modern tendency to statism. But at the moment there are no signs of such movement.

Omissions should seek out and finding and recognizing possible not to repeat them in the future. But infinitely to dwell on the flaws of two decades ago, bring with the help patches work to perfection not achieved initially, in adulthood, to try to correct the mistakes that were made and donated by you and that other person you were in your youth, of course, empty and vain idea.

The lengthy Samarasinghe, for according to the opinion of all moralists, is occupation very undesirable. In doing evil, repent, zaglady as we can blame and point yourself to the next time to do better. In any case, do not give in to unending sorrow over his sin. Floundering in the muck is not the best method of purification.