Post by Dan Dare on May 19, 2023 12:12:37 GMT
This is it:
"No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
— J. Michael Straczynski"
— J. Michael Straczynski"
Now I've no idea who J.M.S. is and what his credentials are for making such pronouncements, but I suspect his knowledge of history is a little shaky. There are countless examples in the historical record of 'imprisoned populations' if well not forever, then certainly a very long time.
But he's obviously doesn't know that force of arms is not a necessary prerequisite for holding a population 'imprisoned'. He's never heard of Aldous Huxley either which makes me believe he's American.
This is what Huxley wrote in the foreword to Brave New World (2nd edition):
"“A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude. To make them love it is the task assigned, in present-day totalitarian states, to ministries of propaganda, news- paper editors and schoolteachers.”
And so it has come to pass.
