Generalized intelligence and mental alertness are the most powerful en…

Aldous Huxley
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Generalized intelligence and mental alertness are the most powerful enemies of dictatorship and at the same time the basic conditions of effective democracy. ✨ Aldous Huxley (1999). Moksha: Aldous Huxley's Classic Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience, p.187, Simon and Schuster
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Generalized intelligence and mental alertness are the most powerful enemies of dictatorship and at the same time the basic conditions of effective democracy. ✨ Aldous Huxley (1999). Moksha: Aldous Huxley's Classic Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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