On What Huxley's John the Savage Might Say to the Politicians and Bureaucrats of Today Whose Goal Is to Keep Us "Safe", Content, and Bizarrely Appreciative

 

“All right then, I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.......Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat, the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen tomorrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind.......I claim them all."......Or words to that effect.