Aldous Huxley Quote - Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.

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Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.

"Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster."

— Aldous Huxley

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Author: Aldous Huxley
Category: Consumption
Tags: Consumption Critical Debt Economy Troubled

Meaning of this quote

The fictional critique links one society's consumption and financial arrangements with suffering elsewhere.

Key takeaway: Examine who bears the costs behind an apparently prosperous way of life.

Origin of the quote

Novel: Island.

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Wording matches apart from punctuation, spacing and hyphenation; excerpt ends before the discussion continues. This is a passage from fiction; the character’s viewpoint should not automatically be treated as the author’s personal belief. Related or overlapping quotation in this export: post ID 286412. Combined-file deduplication: omitted shorter excerpt, post ID 286412; retained this fuller passage.

Attributed author: Aldous Huxley