Sunday, 13 January 2013

The genius of Aldous Huxley

In his foreword on "Brave new world" some 15 years later, there are the following wonderful quotes.

"In an age of advanced technology, ineffficieny is the sin against the holy ghost". I have been wondering about the relationship between efficiency and employment for some time...

"The most important manhattan projects of the future will be vast government-sponsored inquiries into what the politicians call 'The problem of happiness'. In other words, making people love their servitude" - Aldous Huxley
"It's time we admitted that there's more to life than money and it's time we focused not just on GDP but on GWB – general wellbeing." - David Cameron, on introducing a measure of 'well-being' for the UK

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