scary thought...

[undergroundpanther]

One too true.....



In his Brave New World Revisited, Aldous Huxley in 1958 described a society in which war had been eliminated and where "the first aim of the rulers is at all costs to keep their subjects from making trouble."
(Already...Dissenters are threatened,people who are different are scapegoated,people whos ideas are not"mainstream" are called paranoids or conspirasy theroist)


Huxley goes on to describe a likely future:
"The completely organized society, the scientific caste system, the abolition of free will by methodical conditioning,...


(Behavior modification,Chemical electical lobotomies(ect) Haldol implants,stockholm syndrome,New freedom Comission,social engineering,"norms" and manufactured desire)



..Huxley continues..The servitude made acceptable by regular doses of chemically induced happiness,

( Ritalin, prozac and more drugs galore.. drugs to take to stop the painful questions and realizations from becoming consious..)

the orthodoxies drummed in by nightly courses of sleep teaching .

(How many people fall asleep with the TV on? I bet wingnuts fall asleep with 700 club on or faux news without a second thought..)

. ." He predicted non-violent tyranny: "Under the relentless thrust of accelerating over-population and increasing over-organization, and by means of ever more effective methods of mind-manipulation, the democracies will change their nature; and quaint old forms -- elections, parliaments, Supreme Courts and all the rest -- will remain.

(Voting with the machines that can switch the votes with no paoper trail has made the vote a toothless and a vapid symbol that says see we can vote..it isn't fascism..to the stupid..The filibuster dies and the supreme court becomes a puppet show.. )

Huxley says..The underlying substance will be a new kind of non-violent totalitarianism. All the traditional names, all the hallowed slogans will remain exactly what they were in the good old days. Democracy and freedom will be the theme of every broadcast and editorial -- but democracy and freedom in a strictly Pickwickian sense. Meanwhile the ruling oligarchy and its highly trained elite of soldiers, policemen, thought-manufacturers and mind-manipulators will quietly run the show as they see fit."


And I ask how many people go along with the show? How many will die because they won't go..?Will the"people" conform to thier places and roles if the red states become unreasoning..Will we fight the culture war? Or will we wake up and refuse to be taken in by our fears and fear of freedom,the threat of poverty ,the manipulation and bullying....?

[neuvocat]

1. Huxley was quoted as saying that

he predicted that his vision would take 600 years but after the atomic bomb was used, he said it would take less than a hundred. I don't know how many years ago he said that.