On: Luxury beliefs are status symbols (2022)

[michaelt]

Huxley being a famous author of dystopian and satirical fiction, that might be a quote from a fictional bad guy or idiot written by Huxley.

[ThrowawayR2 → michaelt]

A casual check says the quoted text is from Huxley's Crome Yellow (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1999/1999-h/1999-h.htm) and that the speaker is a character known only as Mr. Scogan, which some suggest is an analogue of Bertrand Russell.