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The Civil Liberties Question is Pressing

PSYCHOLOGY HAS BECOME THAT NEW-TIME RELIGION  “Psychology began life this century as a reasonable study of the human mind to see if we could find out what makes us tick upstairs. It is now, of course, a religion. Even religionists who worship at traditional altars still make their bows to psychology.” - Bill Granger  And from Aldous Huxley, Brave New World with regard to Civil Liberties (for those of you who have not read the book, it speaks of a world controlled by genetic and behavioral manipulation): All right then," said the savage defiantly, 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." There was a long silence. “I claim them all," said the Savage