Quote of the Day
February 9th, 2013 - 5:03 pm
“There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, 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 or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.”
— Aldous Huxley, Berkeley, March 20, 1962.
Found atop “What Huxley Knew About Drones And When He Knew It,” at Michelle Obama’s Mirror, via Legal Insurrection.
Ants embraced this chemical development about 150 million years ago. They form productive, expansive societies of seemingly happy participants. It is all based on chemical signals.
Occasionally, African army ants will stumble on their own chemical trails and march endlessly in a circle. That is a downside to chemical structuring.
On the other hand, they are not known to awake some fine morning and march off of a cliff, which seems to be the problem at the moment with the entire “developed” world.