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From overpopulation to unrest to dictatorship

"Over population leads to economic insecurity and social unrest. Unrest and insecurity lead to more control by central governments and an increase of their power. In the absence of a constitutional tradition, this increased power will probably be exercised in a dictatorial fashion. Even if Communism had never been invented, this would be likely to happen."

Aldous Huxley; Brave New World Revisited

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Abbreviation: a necessary evil

"The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can never, in nature of things, do justice to all facts of a complex situation. [...] But life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything. [...] In practice we are generally forced to choose between an unduly brief exposition and no exposition at all. Abbreviation is a necessary evil."

Aldous Huxley's foreword; Brave New World Revisited