a post from the PenguinBlog here, which needs to be made easier to find. (Apologies to King Nothing though, whose comment was appreciated and is lost thereby...)
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(Erich Fromm, quoted in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World Revisited {Harper & Row Perennial Library 1965 republication of 1958 original, paperback, p.21}):
(Fromm) "Many of them are normal because they are so well-adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does."
(Huxley: ) They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society.
