I read Brave New World when I was in my teens in the 70s. I had faith in mankind but I was wrong. Brave New World DID materialize but it is NOT compatible with the divine human nature. Many of us are resisting that crap and that is why we have an Orwellian world in a Brave New World.
I am in my late 70s . I read both books in the mid 1960s. I see cruelty matching that of the past 100 years.
What bothers me is that people are so concerned in the USA about two party politics. but their idiot TV shows come before everyhting
Most of the US Congress are scum. Witness Gaza. Witness USA attack on Iran. Witness Zionism. Witness the killing of US scientists. The bankers control the world. Look at all the evil- such as part of the CIA, FBI, drug industry, fake pandemic , and just too much to write about.
I am writing simplistically here. I researched who starts the wars, financial depressions, etcetera. I was busy with my profession but I took time to find out who gives us wars.
Most men are good yet they will go after each other when survival is necessary.
FYI, the Huxley’s were part of the Deep State, secret society crowd. The brothers, Julian and Aldous, both promoted the LIE of “overpopulation.”
Julian, as the first Director General of UNESCO (the education arm of the UN), served as president of the Eugenics Society and promoted sterilization legislation. His 1946 book on UNESCO promotes “world government” and “unifying the world mind.”
Aldous’s Brave New World has been seen by some as more “prophetic” than cautionary. In other words, his book served as preemptive programming for the coming totalitarian New World Order. I cringe when I see any Huxley praised as a hero.
Edit: Btw, Julian coined the term “transhumanism.” And I meant to say predictive programming, not preemptive. 😝
Agreed. It's all about programming and indoctrination and brainwashing. They have brainwashed several generations of our young in the socialistic schools and teachings, from middle school through university. The 'war gaming' that was put together by fauci and gates and their minions as theoretical scenarios was exactly that: predictive programming, getting the masses to start fearing the horrors ahead. Remember, the gates family has always been about depopulation and eugenics, and fauxi pulled off the exact same trick with AIDS and AZT as he did with Covid and IVM. And now they continue the fear- mongering as a well proven method of control.
Oh how I experienced the kindergarten indoctrination first hand as school nurse for 10ths in a very large elementary school
I compared the incoming K kid to a basket of variety fruit. I would observe this beautiful individuals parade past my clinic day after day. In the beginning I was delighted by the variety of “ apple & oranges” slowly& surely I picked up the subtle nuances of individuals being stripped of their uniqueness
By the end of the school year they were broken into mass compliance ( herd mentality)
For those who weren’t “saddle broken “ they were burdened to begin their academic life with a reference of being a trouble maker & usually be medicated by the 3rd grade
I OBSERVED all of this even before my parachute was open!
I finally had to quit when I could no longer take part in watching pediatricians & parent kill their kids immune systems
It's breath taking when the blinders finally fall away and you see things for what they really are, isn't it? I have become so jaded in my thinking. The old proverb - believe nothing of what you hear and only half of what you see - is even more true today than ever.
i saw a recent article about homeschooling legislation proposed to require permission from DCAF, children & family services after surveilance, interogatory invasions in your life. Theres a homeschool protection group trying to defend against such state ownership of your children.
Me too. I spent a lot of time researching Huxley and Gerald Heard for a book. Along with Osmond, they spent a lot of time working out the best name for the drugs before deciding on psychedelics. Huxley had Michael Hollingshead working for him before he (MH) got the massive batch of LSD from Sandoz and was sent off to do his dirty work with Leary, setting up the deadhead 'counterculture' and sending the kids crazy. Today started in earnest then, but it took some time to perfect the tech.
According to WEF propaganda piece written in 2016, by 2030 plebeians will “own nothing and be happy.” Democrats in USA seem to tend towards the WEF/Huxley model, while the rhetoric of Republicans seems to reflect Orwell. Both parties rule with a top-down approach, which crushes true grassroots representation and individual liberty which should be the hallmarks of our republic.
Information manipulation and psychological conditioning periodically breaks down. Then the glove comes off the Orwellian fist. An example is the freedom convoy in Ottawa. These models are not exclusive.
The Carrot and Stick of B.F. Skinner ignores the freedom of self-actualization (Maslow). For the select, I predict the NWO will fail, but not without a fight. The truth will set you free.
Huxley and Orwell painted two aspects of the same picture. Ask any J6er and they will probably describe a fate closer to that of Orwell's imagination, while those sickened by the COVID bioweapon attack will put a star on Huxley's chart.
WHAT has happened is the Puppet! Masters are pivoting in what they put out to the people.
Now you had people from the government going to Davos. I DC who says what, nobody takes the time to attend something in another country just to tell them
We are not on board with you.
DJT went for information, contracts,connections, pick a flavor regarding 6G.
PSY-OPS are plentiful and continue to do serve their purpose. Here are a few:
I love Orwell and have read much of him several times. Burmese Days, Homage to Catalonia, Road to Wigan Pier. So much respect. He is excruciating in his ability to convey and do so honestly. But I think Huxley wins. And I will tell you why and this is said by Huxley. Keeping a police state in line requires too much energy. Too much force. Epstein understood this. A brutal system requires a cadre of coordinated persons/groups/states that have some degree of central planning. They have to have a goal and confer on the means. The miracle of a system that controls through "internal, psychological, and biological means" is that it can be fully distributed and can function dynamically without agency coordination. Of course, that sort of coordination doesn't hurt. Like during covid having Fauci and Collins running shot gun. But this really can be done by very distributed forces, as long as everyone is cut in on the deal. Our academic institutions, our NGOs, our gov't agencies all have specific self interest right in their sights. And this type of confluence is marvelously aided and abetted by a player like Jeffery Epstein. That's all he did. Connect the widely distributed points of the network. He helped light them up. He helped grease them. Of course there is one terrible consequence.... The system has to strip humans, citizens, players with lives to live, of their humanity, their agency, their sense. As Bob Dylan says in his great great song, License to Kill,
"Now, they take him and they teach him and they groom him for life
And they set him on a path where he’s bound to get ill
Then they bury him with stars
Sell his body like they do used cars
Now, there’s a woman on my block
She just sit there facin’ the hill
She say who gonna take away his license to kill?
Now, he’s hell-bent for destruction, he’s afraid and confused
And his brain has been mismanaged with great skill
"...psychological conditioning is a more effective way of controlling people than intimidation and violence."
Totally agree John!
And what are the primary weapons of psychological conditioning used to control us?
Information (or lack of), Language, Education, Religion, Currency, and Media. Far more powerful than violence!
The ancient cultures have histories that tell of their beautiful abundant world BEFORE the Evil came and destroyed their culture and enslaved the people.
The Zulu, who have one of the longest surviving oral histories said “The Evil came as friends, bearing gifts and amazing magic, and they destroyed our culture and enslaved the people with their words and stories.”
It wasn’t weapons that destroyed the ancient cultures and enslaved the people, it was Language and Religion.
Language is critically important. It's not "Gender-affirming surgery" It's Treatment of delusion with Surgical Mutilation." etcetc. Language leads thought. Thought also leads to language. Words often lead to action. Language is being purposefully twisted these days.
It is Sterilization of Imbeciles. Buck v. Bell Eugenics, given the Madison Avenue treatment by Mad Men - Voila! "Gender-Affirming Care." Consent Manufactured for Eugenicist utopia, "Enough Imbeciles!"
Yes, Language is important. The Marxist ghoul Chomsky, a professor of linguistics, where revolutions often begin.
It is impossible to change someone's gender. Every cell except red blood cells, has either XX or XY chromosomes except in extremely rare cases, where there may be XXY etc. The genitals, etc are simply a manifestation of the effects of either XX or XY.
yes I understand that. Just pointing out it is not "gender affirming"in any sense of the actual words. Semantics. Their "goal" is that surgery should CHANGE their gender.(genitals). My statement does not assume their goal would be successful. It just clarifies the mis stated goal. And I appreciate the nuances you outlined. The latter is often lost. People are more comfortable wth a reductionist binary system. Paradigms of paradox and nuanced complexity are often unappreciated as it takes more effort, like responding to the comments here.
Most of the previous comments speak directly to the two authors in question and their individual publications. I see things a little differently. We have the freedom to be lead by our own logic, rational analysis, and critical thinking, not submit to either method of control. We have plenty of methods to communicate and inform, we have ways to spend our time productively, and even in relaxation.
In my Texas county, we opposed a planned Islamic-centered development and won. It wasn’t power from above, but unity of the mass community, asking for support from elected officials, to gain the results we needed. I acknowledge there is power from official offices, but when we strip away that top-down power, we find the raw power of united individual citizens when we see a threat, overreach, or invasion, it can be resisted, opposed, and defeated.
Perhaps Canadians can regain their individual sovereignty, dignity, and integrity someday. It will take some critical thinking as you suggest, but also some determination and backbone.
I thank you for approval of our success, but my point was more about the two author’s books, which worked on the primary assumption that a population was being ruled over, not governed. Today, we (Americans) are not being ruled over, we have our own methods and techniques to communicate, do research, analyze, and share information. We do not depend on mass media or government statements for understanding situations. Many of us have no mind-altering habits (not withstanding our early lives), and we certainly do not submit to overreaching government rhetoric. So, neither of the authors were ever speaking about real Americans.
I'd suggest that, while your description is an idealized one, unfortunately the majority of Americans have proven by their compliance with covid injections and other "countermeasures," that they ARE willing to submit to overreaching government rhetoric. To their own detriment.
Fully agree with that. My wife and I are Senior Citizens, and while we were worried about the outbreak, and gladly took the initial dose, the boosters were another thing altogether. We know a bunch of people who acted as we did, and even others who never got the poke. I believe there are very many, independent thinkers, people who think, analyze, and decide for themselves, and live with the consequences.
Troy Ogilvie - yes! Your example points out the real problem: that the people do indeed have the power to run their lives - but they don’t realize it. One example: all the constant brouhaha about shots for children - it doesn’t matter what is recommended, etc. - every parent can simply say no to all shots, regardless of the ‘schedule’. But they have been brainwashed into not thinking for themselves.
John, it is indeed an interesting question. Are we heading more towards Orwell's vision of the future, or Huxley's, or some combination of the two? My experience over the last 5 years leads me to believe that BOTH visions are still unfortunately "alive and well" heading into our future.
In Orwell's corner, we still have the fact that almost all US state governments have NOT passed sweeping legislation enshrining the individual's right to decide for himself/herself what "medical interventions" (i.e., masks, injections, etc.) that individual will take. Governments are frantically rewriting history to make it appear that lockdowns and Covid vaccines were a total success. And government-endorsed media censorship of important information like the results of my 2022-2025 "Worldwide Embalmer Blood Clot Surveys" is still rampant. Big Brother's "boot" still threatens to come down hard on our necks next time.
In Huxley's corner, most people want to just "move on" now after the Covid debacle. This includes the "little generals" who wore the masks and took the jabs, and insisted that you do too! It includes the "silent majority" who took the first couple of jabs but now quietly regret that they did. But, unfortunately, it also includes many who didn't like the masks and refused to take the jabs. Many of this last group are so tired of seeing their local, state, or federal governments bring ZERO accountability to those who were the Covid tyrants, that these tired souls have been conditioned psychologically to just "move on" with their lives and accept what has happened.
Perhaps because of his own personality, I think Huxley failed to understand the key passage of "1984".
"Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power".
That clearly implies that the rulers of IngSoc do it the hard way because they want to. Huxley suggests that 'the ruling oligarchy would find “less arduous and wasteful ways of governing” than the “boot-on-the-face” approach'. But what if they prefer the boot-in-the-face approach, as O'Brien clearly does with Winston Smith?
"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power".
Huxley, bless his kindly enlightened heart, vastly overestimated the moral character of people who run dictatorships. Torturing people is never too much trouble for them; they ENJOY it!
Huxley was correct. The Soviet Union was an attempt at George Orwell's 1984 but, as Huxley said, it required too great an energy input and finally ran out of steam before collapsing in on itself whereas the globalist agenda is selling enslavement to the masses as convenience requiring no real effort or personal responsibility on the part of the enslaved. Be obedient and all will be well. You will own nothing and be happy.
I read Brave New World when I was in my teens in the 70s. I had faith in mankind but I was wrong. Brave New World DID materialize but it is NOT compatible with the divine human nature. Many of us are resisting that crap and that is why we have an Orwellian world in a Brave New World.
I am in my late 70s . I read both books in the mid 1960s. I see cruelty matching that of the past 100 years.
What bothers me is that people are so concerned in the USA about two party politics. but their idiot TV shows come before everyhting
Most of the US Congress are scum. Witness Gaza. Witness USA attack on Iran. Witness Zionism. Witness the killing of US scientists. The bankers control the world. Look at all the evil- such as part of the CIA, FBI, drug industry, fake pandemic , and just too much to write about.
I am writing simplistically here. I researched who starts the wars, financial depressions, etcetera. I was busy with my profession but I took time to find out who gives us wars.
Most men are good yet they will go after each other when survival is necessary.
I agree with you the Huxley and the psychological conditioning is what is happening. We're not thinking and using our heads. Some are, but not enough.
Strip mall boner-pill doc-in-the-box plays thinker.
“Some are but not enough “ is the real question. Why only some? Numbers wise, we are many, ‘they’ are few.
I think the genocide in Gaza is Orwellian. I am in my late 70s and the cruelty today is the same as the past.
FYI, the Huxley’s were part of the Deep State, secret society crowd. The brothers, Julian and Aldous, both promoted the LIE of “overpopulation.”
Julian, as the first Director General of UNESCO (the education arm of the UN), served as president of the Eugenics Society and promoted sterilization legislation. His 1946 book on UNESCO promotes “world government” and “unifying the world mind.”
Aldous’s Brave New World has been seen by some as more “prophetic” than cautionary. In other words, his book served as preemptive programming for the coming totalitarian New World Order. I cringe when I see any Huxley praised as a hero.
Edit: Btw, Julian coined the term “transhumanism.” And I meant to say predictive programming, not preemptive. 😝
Agreed. It's all about programming and indoctrination and brainwashing. They have brainwashed several generations of our young in the socialistic schools and teachings, from middle school through university. The 'war gaming' that was put together by fauci and gates and their minions as theoretical scenarios was exactly that: predictive programming, getting the masses to start fearing the horrors ahead. Remember, the gates family has always been about depopulation and eugenics, and fauxi pulled off the exact same trick with AIDS and AZT as he did with Covid and IVM. And now they continue the fear- mongering as a well proven method of control.
The Indoctrination begins in kindergarten.
Oh how I experienced the kindergarten indoctrination first hand as school nurse for 10ths in a very large elementary school
I compared the incoming K kid to a basket of variety fruit. I would observe this beautiful individuals parade past my clinic day after day. In the beginning I was delighted by the variety of “ apple & oranges” slowly& surely I picked up the subtle nuances of individuals being stripped of their uniqueness
By the end of the school year they were broken into mass compliance ( herd mentality)
For those who weren’t “saddle broken “ they were burdened to begin their academic life with a reference of being a trouble maker & usually be medicated by the 3rd grade
I OBSERVED all of this even before my parachute was open!
I finally had to quit when I could no longer take part in watching pediatricians & parent kill their kids immune systems
How sad!
Didn't the parents have enough time or mental ability to see how their kids were changing ?
It's breath taking when the blinders finally fall away and you see things for what they really are, isn't it? I have become so jaded in my thinking. The old proverb - believe nothing of what you hear and only half of what you see - is even more true today than ever.
i saw a recent article about homeschooling legislation proposed to require permission from DCAF, children & family services after surveilance, interogatory invasions in your life. Theres a homeschool protection group trying to defend against such state ownership of your children.
At this point, homeschool laws would be at the state level. Which state are you referring to?
Yes, it’s predictive programming. That’s what I meant to say.
Me too. I spent a lot of time researching Huxley and Gerald Heard for a book. Along with Osmond, they spent a lot of time working out the best name for the drugs before deciding on psychedelics. Huxley had Michael Hollingshead working for him before he (MH) got the massive batch of LSD from Sandoz and was sent off to do his dirty work with Leary, setting up the deadhead 'counterculture' and sending the kids crazy. Today started in earnest then, but it took some time to perfect the tech.
ONE WORLD ORDER
And Aldous's mother was one of Charles Dodgson/Lewis Carroll's "little girls".
According to WEF propaganda piece written in 2016, by 2030 plebeians will “own nothing and be happy.” Democrats in USA seem to tend towards the WEF/Huxley model, while the rhetoric of Republicans seems to reflect Orwell. Both parties rule with a top-down approach, which crushes true grassroots representation and individual liberty which should be the hallmarks of our republic.
Thanks John. Who says it has to be one or the other? Perhaps a quibble over an either/or fallacy?
Yes. More likely governmental control functions alternating between the two, as needed, when compliance begins to falter.
Brave New World tactics will ensnare the majority; the 1984 boot will squash those who escape.
Information manipulation and psychological conditioning periodically breaks down. Then the glove comes off the Orwellian fist. An example is the freedom convoy in Ottawa. These models are not exclusive.
Yes.
The Carrot and Stick of B.F. Skinner ignores the freedom of self-actualization (Maslow). For the select, I predict the NWO will fail, but not without a fight. The truth will set you free.
I agree with D. Sayers - the Prescribed Therapy will be: Use Any or All - PRN
Keep the Citizenry FDH - Fat, Dumb, & Happy
"You will own nothing, & you will be happy."
Bread & Circuses include but are not limited to:
Corporate Fast Food Joints
Dispensaries/Pharmacies/Liquor Stores
The Cable Channels - Hundreds of Channels, & Nuthin's on.....
Netflix/Prime Video/Fandango/Paramount+ (pick your stream, etc)
Internet Porn/Ai Girl/Boyfriends
Facecrack, Instacrap, TikTok what a Crock, Telegram to Nothing, all full of In-fluenzers
Professional Sports & now College Sports
There's more, but y'all get the idea, no?
Yep and psychiatric drugs. Designed to keep you compliant and dull...
N games n weed n pop culture BS generally.
Chapsnatch
😂
That's a good one, Mr. Earl!!
Huxley and Orwell painted two aspects of the same picture. Ask any J6er and they will probably describe a fate closer to that of Orwell's imagination, while those sickened by the COVID bioweapon attack will put a star on Huxley's chart.
WHAT has happened is the Puppet! Masters are pivoting in what they put out to the people.
Now you had people from the government going to Davos. I DC who says what, nobody takes the time to attend something in another country just to tell them
We are not on board with you.
DJT went for information, contracts,connections, pick a flavor regarding 6G.
PSY-OPS are plentiful and continue to do serve their purpose. Here are a few:
Boomers are to blame. They ruined everything.
It's the Jews.
Repeal the Nineteenth.
They are controlled opp.
Etc.
I love Orwell and have read much of him several times. Burmese Days, Homage to Catalonia, Road to Wigan Pier. So much respect. He is excruciating in his ability to convey and do so honestly. But I think Huxley wins. And I will tell you why and this is said by Huxley. Keeping a police state in line requires too much energy. Too much force. Epstein understood this. A brutal system requires a cadre of coordinated persons/groups/states that have some degree of central planning. They have to have a goal and confer on the means. The miracle of a system that controls through "internal, psychological, and biological means" is that it can be fully distributed and can function dynamically without agency coordination. Of course, that sort of coordination doesn't hurt. Like during covid having Fauci and Collins running shot gun. But this really can be done by very distributed forces, as long as everyone is cut in on the deal. Our academic institutions, our NGOs, our gov't agencies all have specific self interest right in their sights. And this type of confluence is marvelously aided and abetted by a player like Jeffery Epstein. That's all he did. Connect the widely distributed points of the network. He helped light them up. He helped grease them. Of course there is one terrible consequence.... The system has to strip humans, citizens, players with lives to live, of their humanity, their agency, their sense. As Bob Dylan says in his great great song, License to Kill,
"Now, they take him and they teach him and they groom him for life
And they set him on a path where he’s bound to get ill
Then they bury him with stars
Sell his body like they do used cars
Now, there’s a woman on my block
She just sit there facin’ the hill
She say who gonna take away his license to kill?
Now, he’s hell-bent for destruction, he’s afraid and confused
And his brain has been mismanaged with great skill
All he believes are his eyes
And his eyes, they just tell him lies
"...psychological conditioning is a more effective way of controlling people than intimidation and violence."
Totally agree John!
And what are the primary weapons of psychological conditioning used to control us?
Information (or lack of), Language, Education, Religion, Currency, and Media. Far more powerful than violence!
The ancient cultures have histories that tell of their beautiful abundant world BEFORE the Evil came and destroyed their culture and enslaved the people.
The Zulu, who have one of the longest surviving oral histories said “The Evil came as friends, bearing gifts and amazing magic, and they destroyed our culture and enslaved the people with their words and stories.”
It wasn’t weapons that destroyed the ancient cultures and enslaved the people, it was Language and Religion.
Language is critically important. It's not "Gender-affirming surgery" It's Treatment of delusion with Surgical Mutilation." etcetc. Language leads thought. Thought also leads to language. Words often lead to action. Language is being purposefully twisted these days.
Tastes great? Or less filling?
It is Sterilization of Imbeciles. Buck v. Bell Eugenics, given the Madison Avenue treatment by Mad Men - Voila! "Gender-Affirming Care." Consent Manufactured for Eugenicist utopia, "Enough Imbeciles!"
Yes, Language is important. The Marxist ghoul Chomsky, a professor of linguistics, where revolutions often begin.
Yep. And dont forget the sterilizing effect of the c19 injections that have ruined our children's health.
simply 'gender changing surgery", to the point, concrete, no frills.
It is impossible to change someone's gender. Every cell except red blood cells, has either XX or XY chromosomes except in extremely rare cases, where there may be XXY etc. The genitals, etc are simply a manifestation of the effects of either XX or XY.
yes I understand that. Just pointing out it is not "gender affirming"in any sense of the actual words. Semantics. Their "goal" is that surgery should CHANGE their gender.(genitals). My statement does not assume their goal would be successful. It just clarifies the mis stated goal. And I appreciate the nuances you outlined. The latter is often lost. People are more comfortable wth a reductionist binary system. Paradigms of paradox and nuanced complexity are often unappreciated as it takes more effort, like responding to the comments here.
Most of the previous comments speak directly to the two authors in question and their individual publications. I see things a little differently. We have the freedom to be lead by our own logic, rational analysis, and critical thinking, not submit to either method of control. We have plenty of methods to communicate and inform, we have ways to spend our time productively, and even in relaxation.
In my Texas county, we opposed a planned Islamic-centered development and won. It wasn’t power from above, but unity of the mass community, asking for support from elected officials, to gain the results we needed. I acknowledge there is power from official offices, but when we strip away that top-down power, we find the raw power of united individual citizens when we see a threat, overreach, or invasion, it can be resisted, opposed, and defeated.
I read about that and was so impressed that you fought the good fight. I think so many feel or act powerless and are apathetic.
More people need to wake up,
This is encouraging. I am dismayed though , living in Canada, how many people have lost the ability to think critically.
Perhaps Canadians can regain their individual sovereignty, dignity, and integrity someday. It will take some critical thinking as you suggest, but also some determination and backbone.
Well done opposing and eliminating the prospect of (and threat posed by) a planned Islamic-centered development in Texas!
I thank you for approval of our success, but my point was more about the two author’s books, which worked on the primary assumption that a population was being ruled over, not governed. Today, we (Americans) are not being ruled over, we have our own methods and techniques to communicate, do research, analyze, and share information. We do not depend on mass media or government statements for understanding situations. Many of us have no mind-altering habits (not withstanding our early lives), and we certainly do not submit to overreaching government rhetoric. So, neither of the authors were ever speaking about real Americans.
I'd suggest that, while your description is an idealized one, unfortunately the majority of Americans have proven by their compliance with covid injections and other "countermeasures," that they ARE willing to submit to overreaching government rhetoric. To their own detriment.
Fully agree with that. My wife and I are Senior Citizens, and while we were worried about the outbreak, and gladly took the initial dose, the boosters were another thing altogether. We know a bunch of people who acted as we did, and even others who never got the poke. I believe there are very many, independent thinkers, people who think, analyze, and decide for themselves, and live with the consequences.
Troy Ogilvie - yes! Your example points out the real problem: that the people do indeed have the power to run their lives - but they don’t realize it. One example: all the constant brouhaha about shots for children - it doesn’t matter what is recommended, etc. - every parent can simply say no to all shots, regardless of the ‘schedule’. But they have been brainwashed into not thinking for themselves.
Both, a combination of the two.
John, it is indeed an interesting question. Are we heading more towards Orwell's vision of the future, or Huxley's, or some combination of the two? My experience over the last 5 years leads me to believe that BOTH visions are still unfortunately "alive and well" heading into our future.
In Orwell's corner, we still have the fact that almost all US state governments have NOT passed sweeping legislation enshrining the individual's right to decide for himself/herself what "medical interventions" (i.e., masks, injections, etc.) that individual will take. Governments are frantically rewriting history to make it appear that lockdowns and Covid vaccines were a total success. And government-endorsed media censorship of important information like the results of my 2022-2025 "Worldwide Embalmer Blood Clot Surveys" is still rampant. Big Brother's "boot" still threatens to come down hard on our necks next time.
In Huxley's corner, most people want to just "move on" now after the Covid debacle. This includes the "little generals" who wore the masks and took the jabs, and insisted that you do too! It includes the "silent majority" who took the first couple of jabs but now quietly regret that they did. But, unfortunately, it also includes many who didn't like the masks and refused to take the jabs. Many of this last group are so tired of seeing their local, state, or federal governments bring ZERO accountability to those who were the Covid tyrants, that these tired souls have been conditioned psychologically to just "move on" with their lives and accept what has happened.
Neither vision is a friend of freedom.
Perhaps because of his own personality, I think Huxley failed to understand the key passage of "1984".
"Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power".
That clearly implies that the rulers of IngSoc do it the hard way because they want to. Huxley suggests that 'the ruling oligarchy would find “less arduous and wasteful ways of governing” than the “boot-on-the-face” approach'. But what if they prefer the boot-in-the-face approach, as O'Brien clearly does with Winston Smith?
"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power".
Huxley, bless his kindly enlightened heart, vastly overestimated the moral character of people who run dictatorships. Torturing people is never too much trouble for them; they ENJOY it!
Huxley was correct. The Soviet Union was an attempt at George Orwell's 1984 but, as Huxley said, it required too great an energy input and finally ran out of steam before collapsing in on itself whereas the globalist agenda is selling enslavement to the masses as convenience requiring no real effort or personal responsibility on the part of the enslaved. Be obedient and all will be well. You will own nothing and be happy.