Ray9
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George Orwell and Aldous Huxley had a running debate about the direction society was headed. Huxley was Orwell’s (Eric Blair’s) former high school teacher and he supported many of the conclusions in Orwell’s landmark dystopian novel, 1984. Like any good teacher, Huxley was quick to critique Orwell’s work as telling only part of the story and possibly leaving out the most important evolution of elite leadership which is to lull the culture into a false sense of security by addicting it to pleasure gifts and make it so fearful of questioning the motives of government that blind obedience by choice, not oppression, was the inevitable outcome. Huxley’s book, Brave New world, picks up where 1984 leaves off.
This is not to say the Huxley was right and Orwell was wrong. Orwell’s version is always on hand if the people misbehave and reject the notion that the government is the adult, and the people are the children. In a constitutional republic like the United States there is always the looming threat of the tyranny of the majority because democracy lives in the hearts and minds of the citizens as advertised. The founders encouraged the people to control the government which was a novel idea using votes as a mechanism to steer public opinion into action to remove bad government.
That is exactly what happened in 2016 when Donald Trump was elected. The people grabbed the reins because the wheels of democracy were coming off the wagon. Making America great again by draining the swamp was solid evidence to the government that insolent children needed a lesson. But they did not go right to Orwell, they opted first for Huxley.
They mobilized the country’s security agencies and turned them inward on an American leader like a foreign enemy. When that was seen not to be working they corrupted the election process with ballot stuffing in broad daylight in key swing states. Since most media had long ago become propaganda puppets for central planning, it was all too easy to fool the foolish. This was classic Huxley as shiny gifts were delivered to the people captivated by a pandemic.
The people watch as their aluminum-foil-wrapped replacements wait in migrant camps soon to be endowed with the aluminum foil hats of leftist kindness buying their future votes. We are living in Huxley’s world.
Of course, if the people rebel we will see Orwell’s world.
This is not to say the Huxley was right and Orwell was wrong. Orwell’s version is always on hand if the people misbehave and reject the notion that the government is the adult, and the people are the children. In a constitutional republic like the United States there is always the looming threat of the tyranny of the majority because democracy lives in the hearts and minds of the citizens as advertised. The founders encouraged the people to control the government which was a novel idea using votes as a mechanism to steer public opinion into action to remove bad government.
That is exactly what happened in 2016 when Donald Trump was elected. The people grabbed the reins because the wheels of democracy were coming off the wagon. Making America great again by draining the swamp was solid evidence to the government that insolent children needed a lesson. But they did not go right to Orwell, they opted first for Huxley.
They mobilized the country’s security agencies and turned them inward on an American leader like a foreign enemy. When that was seen not to be working they corrupted the election process with ballot stuffing in broad daylight in key swing states. Since most media had long ago become propaganda puppets for central planning, it was all too easy to fool the foolish. This was classic Huxley as shiny gifts were delivered to the people captivated by a pandemic.
The people watch as their aluminum-foil-wrapped replacements wait in migrant camps soon to be endowed with the aluminum foil hats of leftist kindness buying their future votes. We are living in Huxley’s world.
Of course, if the people rebel we will see Orwell’s world.
