Aldous Huxley - Revoluţia finală (1962)

Un discurs al lui Aldous Leonard Huxley (autorul cărţii Brave New World) la Berkeley University (20 martie 1962), unde vorbeşte despre posibilitatea instaurării unei "dictaturi ştiinţifice", în care masele nu sunt conştiente de existenţa acestei dictaturi, ba chiar ar fi mulţumite:

"And it seems to me perfectly in the cards that there will be within the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing  a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda, brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods."

"Today we are faced, I think, with the approach of what may be called the ultimate revolution, the final revolution, where man can act directly on the mind-body of his fellows. Well needless to say some kind of direct action on human mind-bodies has been going on since the beginning of time. But this has generally been of a violent nature. The techniques of terrorism have been known from time immemorial and people have employed them with more or less ingenuity sometimes with the utmost cruelty, sometimes with a good deal of skill acquired by a process of trial and error finding out what the best ways of using torture, imprisonment, constraints of various kinds

But, as I think it was Metternich said many years ago, you can do everything with bear except sit on them. If you are going to control any population for any length of time, you must have some measure of consent, it's exceedingly difficult to see how pure terrorism can function indefinitely. It can function for a fairly long time, but I think sooner or later you have to bring in an element of persuasion an element of getting people to consent to what is happening to them". 

The Ultimate Revolution - transcript

Brave New World - textul integral