Huxley was a strong advocate for shifting away from centralised decision making. His initial conceptions that underpinned writing his book Brave New World were that it was written as satire,comical were the words he used. At the time of publishing the book, (1932) he described the government as an ineffectual bystander in the biger scheme of things. When he revisited the book thirty years later, he held grave concerns about just how prophetic his books description of society was and as opposed to seeing the government as being ineffectual bystanders he conveyed alarm at how ............government control had penetrated all levels of the community and the hidden persuaders of advertising and propoganda were inducing a creeping acquiescence in uncontrollable consumerism......... 82 years on from Brave New World being written, the concerns he had and observations he made are described in various ways. Mostly I describe them as the evolution of corporate state and its use of social engineering to maintain a status quo that is reliant on compliance through either cultural hegrmony, ignorance, force, fear, debt slavery and typically a combination of them all. Disparity in wealth and choice, health and education..... on to opportunity has grown ever wider. We observe those who fill roles of public responsibility either as unfit for the position due to lacking the required knowledge and skills or have no ethical grounding and utilise their positions to feather their nests by playing the cooperative complicit slave that is used to enable the nefarious agenda of the elitists who are at the top of corporate states pecking order. We see human rights abuses going unchecked,(usually as a means of making profit) we witness governments abusing civil libertise and taking steps that infringe upon civil liberties being justified by wars on terror were aware of the effects of democracy being hijacked. The concern many of us share is that the path being travelled along has been monopolised and is becoming exponentially more tyranical in its controlling grip, with the flow on effects (whether they be overt or covert) becoming ever seemingly more powerful, whilst appearing innocuous, or.....overcoming them something that appears insummountable Preaching to the converted one might contend...... So...... this is my question, What shape do you think society and culture will be in, in another 82 years?
Posted on: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 06:46:41 +0000
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