"And yet one day men will have to grow up. Compared with the long ages of human existence on earth, our civilization is in its infancy. Sooner or later we must

"And yet one day men will have to grow up. Compared with the long ages of human existence on earth, our civilization is in its infancy. Sooner or later we must be ready to leave the dreamland of childhood, where imagination finds unlimited scope, and take our place in a world of limited freedoms. That world however, can in the long run give us something better than any vision conjured up in childhood." – Total War and the Human Mind, 1944. HN discussion of his book "The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing, 1956" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10400678 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10400678