Give Me Liberty... Or Don't, Who Cares
Every once in a while, I forget that the vast majority of humanity since the advent of organized farming has lived as subjects to a greater power beyond their ability to contest or question.
And then I read something like this, and I remember.
By the time my son is my age, the sentiment you read above will be the common one. The hell with liberty or freedom or self-determination. Give us soma, sex, a comfortable abdication of moral authority, a billion YouTube channels and all the distractions we cannot handle. It isn't that Huxley was right and Orwell was wrong; it's that Orwell was right about the ends and Huxley was right about the means.