A nuclear war will, of course, make nonsense of everybody’s predictions.

Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited [Amazon, Publisher]

Hermetic quote Huxley Brave New World Revisited nonsense of everybody's predictions

Consider also:

  1. “People may start out with an initial prejudice against tyrants; but when tyrants or would-be tyrants treat them to adrenalin-releasing propaganda about the wickedness of their enemies—particularly of enemies weak enough to be persecuted—they are ready to follow him with enthusiasm.”
  2. “Such an education in the art of distinguishing between the proper and the improper use of symbols could be inaugurated immediately. Indeed it might have been inaugurated at any time during the last thirty or forty years. And yet children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements.”
  3. “Can a campaign in favor of rationality be successful in the teeth of another and even more vigorous campaign in favor of irrationality?”
  4. “most of humanity facing the choice between anarchy and totalitarian control”
  5. “Quick death by malaria has been abolished; but life made miserable by undernourishment and over-crowding is now the rule, and slow death by outright starvation threatens ever greater numbers.”