ldw on Nostr: “If human beings were in fact the members of a truly social species, and if their ...
“If human beings were in fact the members of a truly social species, and if their individual differences were trifling and could be completely ironed out by appropriate conditioning, then, obviously, there would be no need for liberty and the State would be justified in persecuting the heretics who demanded it. For the individual termite, service to the termitary is perfect freedom. But human beings are not completely social; they are only moderately gregarious. Their societies are not organisms, like the hive or the anthill; they are organizations, in other words ad hoc machines for collective living... Without freedom, human beings cannot become fully human.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited (1958)
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