“Technological progress has merely provided us with a more efficient means for going backwards.”
Aldous Huxley, again emailed to me without further sourcing and found in a number of places online without any details about when or where he said it. So again please let me know if you know where he did, or that he didn’t, say it.
In my latest National Post column I say the tricksy maneuvering over the U.S. debt ceiling, in which the one problem no one seems able address is chronic overspending, reminds me uncomfortably of late ancien régime France.
“We have been driven into a widespread system of arbitrary and tyrannical control over our economic life not because ‘economic laws are not working the way they used to,’ not because the classical medicine cannot, if properly applied, halt inflation, but because the public at large has been led to expect standards of performance that as economists we do not know how to achieve.”
Milton Friedman’s 1971 address to American Economic Association quoted in Leonard Silk The Economists
In my latest Loonie Politics column I suggest that China ceasing to be most populous nation on Earth is a more significant blow to the Politburo’s conviction that as the “Central Country” they naturally rule the world than many people realize.
“The same age which tends to economic slavery tends to social anarchy; and especially to sexual anarchy. So long as men can be driven in droves like sheep, they can be as promiscuous as sheep.”
G.K. Chesterton in G.K.’s Weekly March 9, 1929, quoted in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 26 #1 (Sept.-Oct. 2022)
In my latest Epoch Times column I say at their national convention the federal Liberals should have tried to sell themselves to the nation as older and wiser not conceited and reckless.
In my latest Epoch Times column I call the contrast between the crushing of the convoy protest and the surrender to the public sector union one evidence that Canada is losing its grip on the rule of law.
“To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing for 10 shillings what any fool can do for a pound.”
The Duke of Wellington according to AZ Quotes [https://www.azquotes.com/author/15482-Duke_of_Wellington]