“A society, most of whose members spend a great part of their time, not on the spot, not here and now and in their calculable future, but somewhere else, in the irrelevant other worlds of sport and soap opera, of mythology and metaphysical fantasy, will find it hard to resist the encroachments of those would manipulate and control it.”

via  Aldous Huxley: Man’s Almost Infinite Appetite For Distractions.       : Information Clearing House.

h/t Jan Erik chat.fakeologist.com