"Aldous Huxley was right"

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http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=kennedy+secret+societies&oq=kennedy+secret+societies&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=6269l28855l0l31899l13l13l0l10l10l0l435l1212l3-1.2l3l0

[formann]

Tenker du på boken, eller meningene hans generelt?

 

Når det gjelder media, så hadde han helt rett. Det er store farer forbundet med media, spesielt slik det er i dag.

 

En verdensstat som bestemmer hvilke gener som videreføres er kanskje ingen dårlig idé i seg selv, men det går på bekostning av mye annet. Degenererering av mennesket som art er alt på god vei, men jeg tror neppe vi rekker å oppleve kosekvensene i vår levetid.

 

 

"Feel how the greater Being comes!" ?

[Kubin]

"Police State 2012: No Need to Wait, It's Already Here."

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKkFoSt6aKQ

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUyzR1BtI0o&feature=related

[tom waits for alice]

Bare et vennlig råd: De fleste av oss kan ikke bruke timevis hver dag på å se på youtube-videoer for å følge med i x antall debatter på ulike forum. Det er derfor kjekt om man lager en "vaskeseddel" eller i hvertfall en ingress som gjør det mulig å avgjøre om man skal spandere det kvarteret eller den halvtimen en video tar.

 

Si oss hva den godeste Huxley angivelig hadde rett i, så får tråden kanskje flere deltagere. Det kan jo være kjekt, selv her i Oppslagstavlen.

 

Geir

 

(Nei, jeg savner ikke å være admin... )

[Kubin]

Si oss hva den godeste Huxley angivelig hadde rett i, så får tråden kanskje flere deltagere.

 

Her er en ultrakort versjon. Huxley så for seg at enkeltindividet vil miste stadig mer av sin frihet. Men ikke nødvendigvis fordi samfunnet blir mer og mer brutalt autoritært. Det blir heller en myk utgave der individene blir mer og mer nedsauset i hjernedød adspredelse, til et punkt der det som opptar dem mest er f.eks. et infantilt dataspill. ( Dataspill var ikke oppfunnet enda, men han snakker om nye oppfinnelser i hjernedød adspredelse. )

 

"And it seems to me perfectly in the cards that there will be within the next generation or so a pharmacological method (*) of making people love their servitude, and producing...a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda, brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods."

 

Aldous Huxley, 1959

 

http://www.iefd.org/articles/democracy_quotes.php

 

(*) "About 11% of Americans aged 12 or older take antidepressants, including many who have not seen a mental health professional in the past year, according to a new federal report.

 

The report by the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics also says that the rate of antidepressant use in the U.S. has increased nearly 400% since 1988."

 

http://www.webmd.com/depression/news/20111019/use-of-antidepressants-on-the-rise-in-the-us

[erlendeg]

Wrightwood. Cal.

21 October, 1949

 

Dear Mr. Orwell,

 

It was very kind of you to tell your publishers to send me a copy of your book. It arrived as I was in the midst of a piece of work that required much reading and consulting of references; and since poor sight makes it necessary for me to ration my reading, I had to wait a long time before being able to embark on Nineteen Eighty-Four.

 

Agreeing with all that the critics have written of it, I need not tell you, yet once more, how fine and how profoundly important the book is. May I speak instead of the thing with which the book deals — the ultimate revolution? The first hints of a philosophy of the ultimate revolution — the revolution which lies beyond politics and economics, and which aims at total subversion of the individual’s psychology and physiology — are to be found in the Marquis de Sade, who regarded himself as the continuator, the consummator, of Robespierre and Babeuf. The philosophy of the ruling minority in Nineteen Eighty-Four is a sadism which has been carried to its logical conclusion by going beyond sex and denying it. Whether in actual fact the policy of the boot-on-the-face can go on indefinitely seems doubtful. My own belief is that the ruling oligarchy will find less arduous and wasteful ways of governing and of satisfying its lust for power, and these ways will resemble those which I described in Brave New World. I have had occasion recently to look into the history of animal magnetism and hypnotism, and have been greatly struck by the way in which, for a hundred and fifty years, the world has refused to take serious cognizance of the discoveries of Mesmer, Braid, Esdaile, and the rest.

 

Partly because of the prevailing materialism and partly because of prevailing respectability, nineteenth-century philosophers and men of science were not willing to investigate the odder facts of psychology for practical men, such as politicians, soldiers and policemen, to apply in the field of government. Thanks to the voluntary ignorance of our fathers, the advent of the ultimate revolution was delayed for five or six generations. Another lucky accident was Freud’s inability to hypnotize successfully and his consequent disparagement of hypnotism. This delayed the general application of hypnotism to psychiatry for at least forty years. But now psycho-analysis is being combined with hypnosis; and hypnosis has been made easy and indefinitely extensible through the use of barbiturates, which induce a hypnoid and suggestible state in even the most recalcitrant subjects.

 

Within the next generation I believe that the world’s rulers will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience. In other words, I feel that the nightmare of Nineteen Eighty-Four is destined to modulate into the nightmare of a world having more resemblance to that which I imagined in Brave New World. The change will be brought about as a result of a felt need for increased efficiency. Meanwhile, of course, there may be a large scale biological and atomic war — in which case we shall have nightmares of other and scarcely imaginable kinds.

 

Thank you once again for the book.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Aldous Huxley