Scientific Dictatorship

A warning from insider Aldous Huxley
-- by: Huxwell
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A Totalitarian Utopia

Author and social analyst Aldous Huxley originally published his classic futurist novel "Brave New World" in 1932. Like the works of family friend H.G. Wells, this was not merely speculation but an insider's exposition of the plans of the "world controllers" as he foresaw them at the time.

This is another of the classics that is well worth re-reading; it is amazing how many of the developments he predicted have since come to pass. The full text of the book is available online at several different sites, along with numerous commentaries. (see Huxley )

In the introduction to the 1946 edition of the book, published shortly after the end of World War II and the first use of atomic weapons, he wrote:

"Unless we choose to decentralize and to use applied science...as the means to producing a race of free individuals, we have only two alternatives to choose from: either a number of national, militarized totalitarianisms, having as their root the terror of the atomic bomb...or else one supra-national totalitarianism, called into existence by the social chaos...and developing, under the need for efficiency and stability, into the welfare-tyranny of Utopia.

All things considered, it looks as though Utopia were far closer to us than anyone, only fifteen years ago could have imagined. Today [in 1946] it seems quite possible that the horror may be upon us in a single century."

While "we" might prefer to see a decentralized world, the would-be world controllers obviously see things differently.

Huxley's Prestigious Pedigree

Huxley's grandfather Thomas Huxley was a famous biologist, humanist, and the pricipal promoter of Darwin's theory of evolution, which is a cornerstone of the humanist belief system. He was known as "Darwin's bulldog" and is credited with coining the term 'agnostic'.

His brother Julian Huxley, who was also a biologist, was the first Director of UNESCO and a founder of the World Wildlife Fund.

For the past 60 years, organizations such as UNESCO have been actively implementing a global collectivist dictatorship as described in "Brave New World". They are involved in standardizing the education system to mold the thinking of the new global citizen, funding eugenics programs to limit the breeding of undesirables, encouraging the breakup of traditional family units, promoting the widespread use of psychoactive drugs, and so on.

These humanist utopians believe that they will serve as the benevolent lords of the centralized, hedonistic system they are creating. However, history suggests that such a system will be an irresistable target for takeover by ruthless strongmen with little regard for the humane treatment of the masses. The "useful idiots" who helped to set up the system will likely be the first group sent to the gulags.

(For more, see "The Humanist Manifesto")

Key Elements of the Scientific Dictatorship

"A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced because they love their servitude.

As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends compensatingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom. In conjunction with the freedom to daydream under the influence of dope and movies and the radio, it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate."

Huxley noted several key developments that he thought would be essential in setting up such a system, including:

• Permanent economic security which would remove the primary source of discontent.
• Improved techniques of suggestion and conditioning, including the use of drugs and repetitive, hypnotic training.
  (Note that this was written before the advent of television and Prozac!)
• A method of psychological evaluation and assignment of individuals to their "proper" social and economic places in the hierarchy.
• Widespread use of recreational drugs to allow temporary escape from the pressures of existence.
• A system of eugenics to allow "human resources" with only the desired characteristics to be bred as needed.

In the body of the novel itself... [TO BE CONTINUED]