Posted by Does this world offer any freedom or just servitude? Two books written almost a century ago continue to cast a shadow over the direction of humanity and the answer to that question.
One was George Orwell’s 1984, with its vision of control of humanity through a brutal, mind-controlling totalitarian state; the other was Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World where the vision of control of humanity was through mind-programming of people to happily accept control without resorting to violence. The key word though is: “control”.
We know all about despotic control of populations through fear, terror, violence and surveillance, but what about control through mind-persuasion rather than brutality? Wouldn’t this be a longer-lasting, more subtle, form of control? In this way, the victim of mind-manipulation doesn’t know he is a victim. To him, the walls of the prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
This was the concept behind Huxley’s 1932 novel, Brave New World: Make everyone happy to be a slave and control of populations can last forever.
As Huxley said twenty years later when revisiting his classic novel, a really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
Dissent is the problem all dictators need to overcome. When dissent becomes uncontrollable, the game is up. Controllers need lots of happily enslaved people.
Brave New World is a cynical outlining of how this is achieved: a society of soulless consumers, idle promiscuous pleasure-seekers, over-consumption of pharmaceutical products to make living blissful (a drug called “soma”), and mind-programmed conformity.
And isn’t this exactly what we now see in the West? Thinking is no longer required, and meaning in existence has been eliminated for most. Today’s Government propaganda departments, media editors and journalists, and school teachers are tasked with making the masses love servitude. And this has been achieved with a remarkable level of success.
There is only one problem: what do the Controllers do with those few people who see through the deception?
The “outsiders” have to be removed from the system, because dealing with them uses up a disproportionate amount of the Controllers’ resources.
Fortunately for both the Controllers and the dissidents, there is a designated exit point from the program we are operating through at this time in the simulacrum. That exit point is the end of a cycle (of time), and this end of cycle is approaching soon.
These “outsiders” are in any event ready to move on to another world, having become sufficiently developed that they won’t contaminate the higher-frequency world beyond, and are now contaminating the low-frequency world they currently exist in. They need to leave the devil in peace. Then, everything continues happily along as before.
But all the “outsiders”, the individual thinkers, will soon meet again on the other side.
Let’s all look forward to reuniting there.
20 April 2024
[Book review: George Orwell – “1984”; Aldous Huxley – “Brave New World]
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