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Podcast: Psychedelic Salon
Episode: Podcast 236 – “The Politics of Ecology”
Description: Guest speaker: Aldous Huxley
PROGRAM NOTES:
[NOTE: All quotations are by Aldous Huxley.]
"To possess power is ipso facto to be tempted to abuse it."
"When advancing science and acceleratingly progressive technology alter man's long-standing relationships with the planet on which he lives, revolutionize his societies, and at the same time equip his rulers with new and immensely more powerful instruments of domination what ought we to do? What can we do?"
"Extreme poverty, when combined with ignorance, breeds that lack of desire to better things, which has been called 'wantlessness', the resigned acceptance of a subhuman lot'."
"From disappointment...