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To: loantech who wrote (5139)1/22/2006 10:29:37 PM
From: E. Charters  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 78419
 
Governments of the world unite, you have nothing to fear but the truth.

"No people that passes abruptly from a state of subservience under the rule of a despot to the completely unfamiliar state of political independence can be said to have a fair chance of being able to govern itself democratically."

deoxy.org

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But even in Rome there was nothing like the non-stop distraction now provided by newspapers and magazines, by radio, television and the cinema. In Brave New World non-stop distractions of the most fascinating nature (the feelies, orgy-porgy, centrifugal bumblepuppy) are deliberately used as instruments of policy, for the purpose of preventing people from paying too much attention to the realities of the social and political situation.
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(a possible explanation for why you don't like being lied to.)