What I am out to complain of is what I seriously believe to be an organised conspiracy of the Black Lodges to prevent people from thinking. In some countries there has already been compulsory listening-in to Government programmes; and who knows how long it will be before we are all subjected by law to the bleatings, bellowings, belchings, of the boring balderdash of the BBC-issies? So nobody must be allowed to think at all. Children must be drilled mentally by quarter-educated herdsmen, whose wages would stop at the first sign of disagreement with the bosses. For the rest, deafen the whole world with senseless clamour. Mechanise everything! Give nobody a chance to think. Standardise amusement. The louder and more cacophonous, the better! Brief intervals between one din and the next can be filled with appeals, repeated 'till hypnotic power gives them the force of orders, to buy this or that product of the "Business men" who are the real power in the State.
Aleister Crowley (Magick Without Tears) |
