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"These effortless pleasures, these ready-made distractions that are the same for every one over the face of the whole Western world, are surely a worse menace t
by smallerdemon 3y ago
"These effortless pleasures, these ready-made distractions that are the same for every one over the face of the whole Western world, are surely a worse menace to our civilization than ever the Germans were."
Well... this aged like fine milk in retrospect to what was coming 20 years down the line.
- zer00eyz 3y agoConsidering how complacent everyone got in the interwar period about what was going on... I dont think any one at that point in time thought they would do it all over again, 20 years later, with Germany.
- randomburner99 3y agoIncorrect on multiple grounds, the first being that the Nazis were in part a reaction against the kind of society that Huxley sees developing.
- pizzafeelsright 3y ago[flagged]
- ulrashida 3y agoYes, because as we all remember there were no countries allied with Germany for any duration of the war.
- rexpop 3y agoThis is how you sound, to me: "Sometimes, I wonder if it took the collective organs to defeat one pathogen perhaps they were superior to all other organisms." If we must, there are other rubrics by which to judge "superiority" than capacity for destruction and domination.
- marviel 3y agoYou seem to believe capacity for destruction & dominance is the metric by which a society should be valued. I hope you take a moment to consider what the world would be like if all lived according to your implied ideals
- lm28469 3y agoTo defeat "one country" ? Do you have access to history books?
- mantas 3y agoIt aged very well looking at what was coming 100 years down the line.
- tryauuum 3y agoThis aged fine. Any war eventually ends but the stream of "the effortless pleasures" will be present in each day
- bee_rider 3y agoEh, is it a matter of aging? WW1 would be fresh in people’s minds… it seems like a bad quote then, too. I bet, for example, any reader who’d been in a trench for a week long bombardment would take the record player instead. It seems like a surprisingly weak essay, from an otherwise pretty thoughtful guy.