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Aldous Huxley — Slavery
by Consent (Video)
December 3, 2015
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Getting people to believe and take on their slavery, as if you’re doing
them some kind of favor, having people ask to be slaves rather than
forcing them to be slaves, ultimately proves more practical and
convenient for those who own their thoughts, beliefs, fears,
aspirations, and actions, and also tends to yield the desired dominance
over a people more promptly.
The excerpt from the 1962 Aldous Huxley speech at UC Berkeley which
follows will prove crucial to the earnest student of history, but it is
also of great import to bear in mind this pertinent background
information:
“It seems to me that the nature of the ultimate revolution with
which we are now faced is precisely this: that we are in process of
developing a whole series of techniques which will enable the
controlling oligarchy — who have always existed and presumably will
always exist — to get people to love their servitude. This is, it seems
to me, the ultimate in malevolent revolutions, shall we say, and this is
a problem which has interested me many years and about which I wrote
thirty years ago, a fable — ‘Brave New World’ — which is an account of
society making use of all the devices available and some of the devices
which I imagined to be possible, making use of them in order to, first
of all, standardize the population, to iron out inconvenient human
differences, to create, to say, mass-produced models of human beings
arranged in some sort of scientific caste system. Since then, I have
continued to be extremely interested in this problem and I have noticed
with increasing dismay a number of the predictions which were purely
fantastic when I made them thirty years ago have come true or seem in
process of coming true.”
—Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley [excerpt from “The Ultimate Revolution” speech; University
of California at Berkeley (Berkeley, California, U.S.A.); March 20,
1962]…
http://thearcanefront.com/aldous-huxley-slavery-consent-video/
by Consent (Video)
December 3, 2015
Comments
Getting people to believe and take on their slavery, as if you’re doing
them some kind of favor, having people ask to be slaves rather than
forcing them to be slaves, ultimately proves more practical and
convenient for those who own their thoughts, beliefs, fears,
aspirations, and actions, and also tends to yield the desired dominance
over a people more promptly.
The excerpt from the 1962 Aldous Huxley speech at UC Berkeley which
follows will prove crucial to the earnest student of history, but it is
also of great import to bear in mind this pertinent background
information:
“It seems to me that the nature of the ultimate revolution with
which we are now faced is precisely this: that we are in process of
developing a whole series of techniques which will enable the
controlling oligarchy — who have always existed and presumably will
always exist — to get people to love their servitude. This is, it seems
to me, the ultimate in malevolent revolutions, shall we say, and this is
a problem which has interested me many years and about which I wrote
thirty years ago, a fable — ‘Brave New World’ — which is an account of
society making use of all the devices available and some of the devices
which I imagined to be possible, making use of them in order to, first
of all, standardize the population, to iron out inconvenient human
differences, to create, to say, mass-produced models of human beings
arranged in some sort of scientific caste system. Since then, I have
continued to be extremely interested in this problem and I have noticed
with increasing dismay a number of the predictions which were purely
fantastic when I made them thirty years ago have come true or seem in
process of coming true.”
—Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley [excerpt from “The Ultimate Revolution” speech; University
of California at Berkeley (Berkeley, California, U.S.A.); March 20,
1962]…
http://thearcanefront.com/aldous-huxley-slavery-consent-video/
