Posted by There are a few books (but not that many) which are required reading for anyone wishing to understand the world we live in.
No one needs to spend a lifetime reading ancient scripts to get the picture that the reality of existence is not what we are generally told by the Authorities and Controllers.
One of the books though that is certainly required reading for those prepared to question the nature of reality is Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, written almost a century ago.
How Huxley ‘received’ the concepts of the book will never be known to us, much like other writers whose books have a message behind the story, such as HG Wells, George Orwell and Dickens.
All the writers mentioned were clearly picked out by the controllers of society as having a special writing talent or skill, but were not born into the group who controlled society. They were all selected and used to ‘tell’ a story to the masses which revealed elements of actual truth behind a fictional story.
Today, the Controllers use television ‘shows’ or series and films to do their ‘showing-and-telling’ (which they are required to do under cosmic law, before they enforce changes on society, it is their way of obtaining “approval” for the changes they bring about). Back in the days before television, radio and literature was used.
If we are awake and listening, we can ‘hear’ the messages given to us, but most people are too distracted by trivialities to ‘hear’ messages presented to us.
If we find ourselves in that rare category of person who takes on board the messages ‘given’ to us, we can then decide whether we wish to follow the direction the Controllers are planning to take us in, or to opt out and become “outsiders”, who do not comply.
Whatever direction we choose, the Controllers are always able to change society anyway. The world can’t be saved, and we are not here ‘in’ the world to try and save it, but we can help ourselves if we are observant and listening.
An example of a modern day “show and tell” was the 2016 first season of the television series Westworld, which described clearly what the structure of society really is, which had been previously outlined in Brave New World. The series even used the names “Ford” and “Bernard” for the main characters as a ‘nod’ to the influence of Brave New World.
Both portray the idea that “humans” are created, designed and programmed to fit different archetypes which will perform different specific jobs in society, with no chance of transcending their designs. Jung said there were only twelve archetypes of humans, which makes creation and the structuring of human society very straight forward for the creators, designers, repairmen and controllers.
The essence of Huxley’s Brave New World and Orwell’s 1984 (the two visionary books from the 20th century which revealed key elements of ‘reality’) was control of humanity.
One vision (Orwell’s) was a brutal mind-controlling totalitarian state, the other (Huxley’s) was a softer form of totalitarianism, being conformity and control through hypnotic persuasion rather than brutality. But both amount to the same thing.
We have reached that point in time now (totalitarian existence in one form or another) even if we hadn’t when those books were written.
Half the world lives under the system of control through brutality, and the other half (mainly in the West) uses mind-control and programming to create a love of servitude, and a belief that we are free when we are not.
As the Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning stated in Brave New World:
The secret of happiness and virtue is liking what you have got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny.
We are trapped in control systems, but would we know what to do with freedom if we were offered it? Brave New World propounds the view that freedom means crime, disease, poverty, overcrowding and insecurity. But it does also propound an alternative to freedom for human existence, outlined below. Huxley expanded on his idea further in Brave New World Revisited in 1958.
Essentially, Brave New World is the future blueprint of control for the Western world model. Much of the rest of the world will follow the other future blueprint, Orwell’s boot stamping on the face of humanity forever.
These notes look at Huxley’s vision rather than Orwell’s, as the West is moving rapidly towards the planned society described by Huxley of a mindless society. This is the world of “prescribed happiness” to control society rather than “prescribed brutality”. Happiness, however false, works far better to control people.
So how (and why) do the controllers control a society? The starting point is that humans are simply not spiritually advanced enough at this time to create a utopian society. As Sir Thomas More implied in his sixteenth-century novel Utopia, utopia is the good place that doesn’t exist. Dystopia is the reality, one way or another.
Even in the West, freedom has never existed. Take the case of the Puritan founders of New England, who came to America to be “free” from English rule. They began their construction efforts with a prison and gallows for hanging people. There has always been no room for dissent, even when creating “free new worlds”. Societies need controlling.
What do you do with people who don’t endorse your views or fit in with your plans? The answer is always: Forced re-education, exile or execution.
Brave New World offered the gentlest of punishments for non-conformists – exile. There is no room for “freedom” when people need structure and control to make society function.
Brave New World took control to scientific levels, with stability in their “World State” maintained through biological engineering and relentless conditioning from birth, with a maximum of two billion people who are ‘hatched’, not ‘born’, and are fully standardised. Citizens don’t have defects, or illness, and don’t know old age. Death arrives before old age, as the film Logans Run (1976) so powerfully depicts, with its ‘nod’ to Brave New World.
Mothers and fathers don’t exist. In infancy, children are conditioned to love passive obedience, material consumption and mindless promiscuity through the perfect mind-control/suggestion method of ‘sleep-teaching’. Any emotion which still surfaces is quickly quelled through the use of the “happy” drug, soma.
A caste system is used to run society, with humans engineered to have a range of intelligence (from moron to elite) depending on their designated role in society. Stability is the primary requirement. Everyone is happy. Punishment is unnecessary (punishment never achieves more than a temporary curtailing of undesirable behaviour anyway).
It is a society of too much order rather than too little order. Individuality can’t exist or thrive as it would disrupt the order in society.
As Huxley says in Brave New World Revisited, his 1958 notes looking back on his 1932 masterpiece:
The really hopeless victims of mental illness are found among those who appear most normal. They are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted, still cherish the ‘illusion of individuality’, but in fact they have been to a great extent de-individualised. Their conformity is developing into something like uniformity.
This is another way of looking at what Colin Wilson described as the ‘Outsider’. Few non-conformists, outsiders, still exist in society. They need to be exiled, ejected, by the Controllers as society cannot run effectively where freedom and free will is allowed. Uniformity is essential to allow stability. Independent thought is barred.
In the end it comes down to the final decision on ‘freedom’ that we all have to make: spirituality or materialism. The era of transhumanism is fast approaching.
As the World Controller said in Brave New World:
God isn’t compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilisation has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness. That’s why I have to keep these books locked up in a safe…..
Those “books” referenced by the World Controller were ones advocating free will and individual thought.
And so to the title of Huxley’s book, which comes from Shakespeare’s play The Tempest.
The brief story outline from The Tempest is as follows (with thanks to the “nosweatshakespeare” website):
Prospero, the Duke of Milan, has been overthrown by his brother. He is placed in a boat full of his books, with his baby daughter, Miranda, and set adrift. The boat is thrown up on a Mediterranean island.
During the fifteen years on the island, Prospero studied so much during those lost years that he had surpassed all knowledge of science and had entered the realm of magic.
When we first see him, he is a fully-fledged magician. Miranda has been tutored by him, and she is now an educated young woman, although she knows very little about the outside world.
When Prospero’s enemies, all corrupt European politicians, are passing the island, he causes the ship to be wrecked and they land on the island, where Prospero manipulates them and controls their actions.
Miranda, who has never seen a human being apart from her father, meets them, and is impressed with their clothes and their beautiful physical form, particularly of the handsome young sailors. She exclaims:
Oh wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is!
O brave new world
That has such people in’t.
Propero retorts: ‘Tis new to thee!
The cynicism of Prospero has become the standard way of expressing those famous words “O brave new world!”. They imply a cynical viewpoint.
It could be an overambitious project; or a new idea which we fear may not live up to expectation; or perhaps changes that are meant to improve people’s lives but which bring more problems instead.
Or, of course, the bleak and dismal future envisaged by Huxley in Brave New World.
The world of bottled babies grown in laboratories, designed for specific roles in society, and so perfectly conditioned that they think and behave exactly as they are meant to.
And certainly with no ability to think independently.
Or to be un-happy.
2 July 2025
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