We can pool information about experiences, but never the experiences themselves. From family to nation, every human group is a society of island univ… - Aldous Huxley

which is better - to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?

Not quite. I'm thinking of a queer feeling I sometimes get, a feel that I've got something important to say and the power to say it — only I don't know what it is, and I can't make any use of the power.

As for 'taking sides' — the choice, it seems to me, is no longer between two users of violence, two systems of dictatorship. Violence and dictatorship cannot produce peace and liberty; they can only produce the results of violence and dictatorship, results with which history has made us only too sickeningly familiar. The choice now is between militarism and pacifism. To me, the necessity of pacifism seems absolutely clear.