20 May George Orwell

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“The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.”

Ironic observation in that short-term happiness cannot be sustained without freedom. Often it’s a Faustian bargain for those who trade, with ideological rulers, their freedom for happiness. The rulers then gradually limit everyone’s freedom, leaving little freedom; as in prison, a place where few are happy.