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This is why Socrates didn't want to write anything down, because he knew people would just fucking reinterpret shit and fucking put their own meaning on shit and change it forever and nothing would mean anything anymore. That's exactly. Right, I think, I think you're totally right. Same thing for for Confucius too, right? He didn't write any his stuff down. It was Mencius and his his followers.
The difference between the third world countries and Western countries is the same difference between 1984 by George Orwell and Brave New World by Huxley.
Terence McKenna called Brave New World the greatest anti drug book ever written. It is an anti drug book. It's also a classic in the Canon of literature.
In America, for a very long time, people have been ruled by bread and circus... give the people bread and circus and control them. It's a Brave new world kind of mentality.
But you have to imagine entirely novel forms of essentially communal and political self-restraint imposed on those human tendencies. Or maybe, I mean, look, I, you know, maybe there are people who would say, well, no, what you need are. pharmaceutical interventions, right? Instead of Soma from Aldous Huxley's Brave New World to sort of, you know, take the edge off everything
But you read the 1984's, you read the Brave New Worlds and you look at the patterns that form and it's like, yes, we could see a lot of scenarios.
Aldous Huxley writes a very similar sort of dystopian novel called A Brave New World. And in a Brave New World, he says, no, no, no. They don't need to burn any of the books. They're just going to give you soma.