Because a large part of our personality is naturally imbecile, because we like this imbecility and have a habit of it, we have built ourselves a largely imbecile world to live in. Between congenitally distracted individuals and their distracting, imbecile environment there is set up a kind of self-perpetuating resonance.
Aldous Huxley.
He wrote this in 1941, slightly before the modern age had really got into its stride.
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