“…democracies will change their nature; the quaint old forms—elections, parliaments, Supreme Courts and all the rest—will remain. The underlying substance will be a new kind of non-violent totalitarianism. All the traditional names, all the hallowed slogans will remain exactly what they were in the good old days.

“Democracy and freedom will be the theme of every broadcast and editorial—but democracy and freedom in a strictly Pickwickian sense. Meanwhile the ruling oligarchy and its highly trained elite of soldiers, policemen, thought-manufacturers and mind-manipulators(1) will quietly run the show as they see fit.”

— Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited; non-fiction essays.

(1)  “Love your servitude”: The media in our time has become a 24 hour total environment where “news” is incessantly presented as objective fact when it is actually thinly disguised propaganda, wherein the seductive events and promises narrated are manufactured or manipulated to attain to cynical political ends.

The Final Revolution