Quote nicked from ICH:

"Only a large-scale popular movement toward decentralization and self-help can arrest the present tendency toward statism... 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, newspaper editors and schoolteachers."

- Aldous Huxley - (1894-1963) Author - Source: Forward to 'Brave New World', 1932

Warren Buffet & the Status Quo

......tediously, predictably, the age-old status quo grinds relentlessly and pathetically on.... Y A W N!

A few days ago in an interview, Warren Buffet (the notorious US multi-billionaire) concurred with the above sentiment, though in decidedly more upbeat tones... he was a long way from yawning. Paraphrasing: "Through two world wars," he said buoyantly, "through various recessions and other turmoil, we still have the status quo." - by which was meant: despite everything, he and his corporate pals had not released their grip for an instant, but had maintained the global plague of poverty, misery, despair and war that had kept him and his elite kind in untold wealth, and (most crucially) in control, for the best part of two centuries...

About time for a change.... ! .......................<.See also >