Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people want to think only what they are supposed to want to think, and this they consider freedom.
Source: The Decline of the West, vol. 2, ch. 12, sct. 4, 1926.
-- Oswald Spengler, (May 29 1880-1936), German philosopher; He was best known for Decline of the West, 1981-22.