Activist Post: Orwell: No one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it

Activist Post: Orwell: No one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it

For Aldous #Huxley, however, #Orwell had missed the point. The Nazis and Soviets were incomplete models for the emerging world order. The real #tyranny was scientific in its approach, sophisticated and slight in its maneuvered hand.

1984 describes the ultimate tyranny to come. Or the retro-nightmare future that might-have-been, had it not been outdone by reality. Aldous Huxley – famous author, heir to the intellectual threads of Eugenics, Darwinism, Fabian Socialism and Humanitarian Scientism as a world religion – made his disagreements with his former pupil George Orwell quite clear in a 1962 speech at Berkeley as well as in writings like Brave New World: Revisited.

Orwell’s stark and forceful police state manufactured and maintained order with the psychological dominance of the ever-watchful Big Brother, by utilizing high-tech surveillance, the editing of reality, the propagation of dizzying misinformation and rule by an iron fist.